STUCK!!!!!!

As of late, it seems that my kids are always getting STUCK somehow, someplace.

I just do not know how they manage some of it, actually. I mean, it's not that we haven't been stuck before.

It isn't the first rash of STUCK that we have experienced, either. Used to, they only got stuck in their bed-slats which can be scary enough.

But who knew that a toddler could manage to find a wide variety of interesting yet odd places to get stuck?

I know, we have all heard horror stories about a friend of a friend's child getting stuck somewhere horrible.

I for one, had a little girl that I used to baby sit for, who actually managed to get stuck inside the very tiny space in the middle of the rounded, swirly part of the banister at the bottom of her staircase.

Lucky for me, I wasn't on duty when it happened, her mother was. Unfortunately, I suppose the time comes for every mother when she has to take her turn amongst those who have STUCK children.

I just do not know how to handle it sometimes. I mean, it's so hard not to outright laugh at the babies and their predicaments, yet they are so incredibly sad at their plight.

How do you manage to keep a straight face? Let me share my plight with you so that you can fully understand the extent of our woes!

Kaiden, the little dare-devil, future circus performer extraordinaire that he is shaping up to be, has managed to get stuck TO the fireplace.

Thankfully, he has yet to get stuck IN the fireplace...yet. But he has discovered that several pair of his pajamas actually stick to the brick much like Velcro.

It's not enough that he couldn't get loose if he pulled hard enough, but it's enough that he feels stuck enough to go into hysterics and need Mummy to save him from it!

It's much to funny of a a sight, though, seeing your little one crouched on the hearth curled into this little ball thinking that he cannot move anymore. I suppose I should be thankful that he has such a learning deterrent to teach him to stay off of the fireplace!

Then there was the day that Kai decided to look into his kitchen cabinet. You know, the one you are supposed to leave for the baby to play with?

As it would turn out, he had been keeping a set of favorite cars in his cabinet. And, as luck would have it, they had managed to roll to the far back corner of that cabinet (which happens to be one of those super deep ones that is next to the fridge.)

Well, since it's not unusual for him to be in that cabinet, I didn't think much of it at first. Then I noticed that he was hanging off of the top shelf a bit with his torso and legs dangling a few inches off of the floor.

I had wondered why his siblings were sitting there, staring at him in wonder, as if he was doing the greatest trick EVER.

Then I noticed that there were only feet hanging out of the cabinet, and that he had managed to crawl fully into the top shelf of the cabinet, and had been belly crawling towards the back of it.

I suppose I was too shocked at first to stop him from going all the way back, I don't know.

All I do know, is that I literally had to drag him out of it by his ankles because he was nearly to the back corner of that super deep cabinet.

At least he did manage to get his cars though, even if he was crying at the end over being stuck in the deep, dark, cavernous cabinet!

One morning, I realized that the babies were crying quite loudly. It was THAT cry, too. The one that says, "Timmie's stuck in the well" and all.

I ran into the living room, only to find that I had 2 stuck babies staring wistfully at me with tears running down their little faces.

Both Vivienne and Kai had managed to crawl underneath the upright piano, stand fully up (all the way,) and they had tried to squeeze themselves up through the tiny crevice between the piano bench and the keyboard of the piano and had managed to get only their heads into the space before finding themselves STUCK.

So, there they stood, heads laying sideways on the bench, sandwiched between the bottom of that keyboard and the piano bench, and as they were in tight confines, they had taken to hitting at each other in their frustration, and each were crying over being stuck AND fighting one another!

I managed to free them both fairly easily, by moving the piano bench forward (something that was too heavy for their tiny bodies to do even together!)

Then I realized that someone was missing and that I could still hear whimpering in the living room.

I finally managed to find Kian. He had decided to try and crawl into his feeding chair for a snack or something and hadn't quite made it all of the way in.

He was sitting with his behind and one leg fully in the seat of it, using his hands to try and push up on the tray to keep himself comfortable because his other leg was sticking straight up in the air and refused to comply with his wishes.

I was nice, and didn't laugh at him, even though it was pretty funny and all. I set him free, and we all 4 had a nice cuddle on the couch to try and sooth away all the tears from being STUCK!

Yesterday, Kaiden managed to get stuck on one of my end tables. It's a 2-tiered one and he had decided that climbing up the back of it would be a good idea, so that he could roll his elephant car down the front of it from behind (a seemingly better vantage point for him or so he thought!)

He climbed up alright, but couldn't figure out how to back down from it, so he cried and cried until I plucked him up off of it.

I wonder if they will be embarrassed about all of the ways they get stuck when they hear about it when they get older.

I worry about them getting stuck someplace much worse than what they have already figured out!