How To Upset Your Sister Without Really Trying step 2

Posted by Vulnadia on Mar 26, 2009 at 03:18 PM Okay, so we know that Kaiden has been writing his memoirs in hopes of making his fortune one day in his self-help book entitled "How To Upset Your Sister Without Really Trying." At the moment, he has been keeping his in his Elmo coloring book, scribbed in the margins in what little crayon he hasn't already eaten. Well, today, he has really topped himself on the annoyance factor. I am going to assume that as a reader, you probably are already quite aware of the freedom gained by my tiny trio over the past week and how they can get in and out of their cribs at will now. Well, to make things safer all around, I have lowered their crib rails to half-mast in hopes of Kian (and everyone else) can actually get back into their own beds should the need arise, and do it SAFELY. So today, I find myself stopping my work to run upstairs and find out why Vivienne is screaming and in hysterics. Let's give you a little flashback: Vivienne has occupied her very own bed since she was a wee three months old and absolutly refused to sleep in the same bed as both of her brothers. Until that point, the three of the babies had shared the same crib since they were 2 weeks old. I didn't move her out of that bed, either. One day, in the middle of the night while I was changing her diaper (we used her bed as a changing table at the time) she just turned her little self over, stuck her butt in the air and her thumb in her mouth and refused to budge, feigning deep and sudden sleep. She hasn't looked back since. Unfortunately, the further adventures of Commando Cudddles (Kai's infant super hero alter-ego identity) has been written. You see, it wasn't enough for Kai to get out of bed during naptime today, oh no! He felt the need to super-annoy his baby sister (by a whopping nearly 3 minutes.) He first took her most beloved possession, her fuzzy super soft and shaggy pink blanket, and FOLDED IT NEATLY and stashed it safely in the top drawer of the dresser. This of course mad sister scream just as he had planned. Next, he decided that it would be nice if he tried to "Comfort" her, so he decided that he would just climb in and cuddle her. No, that wasn't enough to settle her down, either. So, he climbed back out, and commenced to moving all of the contents of his own bed into Vivienne's bed in its entirety. By the time I got up to the nursery, Kai was laying down next to Vivienne, with his blanket and thumb in his mouth in the opposite end of Vivienne's crib just the way he had done when he shared a bed with his brother for almst 18 months of his life. This meant that his stinky boy feet were on her nicely kept red satin pillowcase and his head was on her prized Uniqua pillow baby. He was also laying on top of her Bylo Baby, Little People Dressie-Bessie and her Madame Alexander collection. Now she doesn't like to share her bed with ANYONE at all and hasn't had to since she was 3 months old, so she especially was not happy with this new arrangement. Almost as soon as I had opened that door, he flew up out of that bed in one fluid motion, blanket trailing behind him like a super-hero cape and he jumped out of her bed, accross the room and into his own bed as if nothing ever had happened and he was an innocent boy. Then he had the gall to look at me, look at his screaming sister, and ask for all of his babies back!!!! She was only too happy to oblige by throwing them out of her crib one at a time as fast as she could! I had worried that this was going to happen ever since this past Saturday when they all started routinely getting out of bed. Their beds used to be the only space that they had to themselves. Their most personal things are kept in their beds for safekeeping and to keep the peace. We don't have that luxury anymore and I don't know what to do to make this better, if there is anything really at all that can be done. My poor babies have lost that special alone place that they had all to themselves. It always made them love bedtime because they had a place to go where they could play with their things and not have to share them with anyone unless they wanted to trade from accross the room (yes things often flew.) Part of me is sad because they have lost that special quiet place. But another part of me is happy to see them growing up. she usually DOESNT share her babies with her brothers- not at all- that is why she keeps her best & favourites in her bed.... when the house is finally MINE then bregon will move downstairs to the garage which will be floored & made into family/playroom with a small loft area for him- then the boys will move into bregon's bigger room & she will have a room to herself....but at the moment they all 3 have to share!!! unless bregon becomes a genius overnight & goes away to college at the age of 14 she is out of luck!!!! poor babygirl!!! last night kai went after kian & HIS bed...so at least its not just her! ~mimi