Big Boy Bed

Just a quick entry tonight, Melissa pulled the crib mattress out of the crib and set it on the floor, to do a sort of “big boy bed” trial. I have a feeling it’ll be back in the crib before the end of the night, but we’ll see, he’s always full of surprises!

EDIT – It turns out he did extremely well in the test big boy bed! And now, because you DEMANDED it!… or at least were THINKING ABOUT demanding it… here’s some pics of Ian’s first night in bed. Yup, I used the flash. BAD DADDY.

awww! Our little boy is so grown up! Before the little railing was put up we did end up finding him crying in the middle of the room a couple times. He just sorta rolled right off the side and kept going, I guess. See this image larger.

But yeah, his excitement level was huge about being able to sleep on his mattress on the floor; and each time he awoke he went right back to sleep on the mattress without so much as a whimper. In the morning we opened his door to find that Ian was already up and playing with toys, in a fairly quiet fashion. Awesome! See this image larger.

Round and Round

News: Today was just a brilliant day, particularly compared to the weekend. Ian has been sick again and I think it was at its worst on Sunday, and it affected his mood poorly. Today he was feeling better, and maybe we just were in the mood to have fun on our Monday together. We got up, ate a lot of cereal, watched “Here Come the ABC’s” (Ian sang a bit of Robot Parade.) He slept for a good long nap, and went down immediately for a change. Woke up, played around etc. Good times.

Two heart-wrenchingly awesome moments that happened today. One was that I helped him into the recliner and as he sat there I asked him “Is that comfortable? I’m asking because I have no idea, Daddy never gets to sit in that chair.” (This was just a bit of a joke, it is my fault I never sit in it because I don’t hang out in the front room that much, I guess.) But he looked at me, concerned, and said “Daddy’s turn!” a few times, and scooted off the chair. When I sat on it he brought me his blankets too. I was a bit choked up that he took me that seriously. What was interesting to me was that I DID NOT SAY ANYTHING about a “turn.” It was cool to have him thinking about what was fair, and trying to help me achieve it. The other thing was that shortly after his nap, we were down in my office watching a video in our separate chairs, and he actually crawled up the side of his chair, spanned the distance between our chairs with his body like a bridge, and put his head on my leg while still watching the video. (He seems to really need a bit of human contact after he wakes up, so the separate chairs was probably a bad idea on my part.)

Flashback – So what happened here… we’ve got a book that walks you through the epic ballad “The Wheels on the Bus.” Melissa is singing the song, but Ian’s going through the book at his own pace. He’s looking at the page “the babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah” but he gets a little confused with the main line… end result “the babies on the bus go round and round.” It’s pretty clear.

Click here to listen to Ian singing, this click is .5 MB in size.

Bathtub Toys without the Bath

News: Today, March first, Ian was in misbehave mode. He was mostly looking to cause a mess and chaos. He keeps saying things that I don’t expect. I keep thinking “where’d he pick that up?” Chances are most of it is from us or daycare, of course. As a parent I feel blown away by what he’s saying when I’m talking down to him, trying to keep it as his level and he one-ups me… makes me realize I don’t quite know where he is level-wise.

Catching up: Those of you ever wishing you could just hear Ian doing crazy stuff as a sort of ambient background soundtrack will be happy with this soundclip. It’s about 6 minutes long, and might take awhile to download — it is mostly babble. It has moments of quiet, and moments of extreme noise, (including ian simply screaming at the top of his lungs, at about 5 minutes 30 seconds… you’ve been warned) so if you think your speakers aren’t up to the task, you should be careful.

We’re actually in the bathroom, sitting on the linoleum floor, playing with his bath toys. I don’t know how we ended up there, but there you go. Recorded on February 16th.

Things to listen for: “daddy sit. Please… NOW…. sit. Please.” “A Star! Star? Star!” “Boom! Boom-boom-boom-boom-boom-apple-boom.” “Open. Close.” “I clean.” “Hammer” “Whartheygo?”

Here’s the link to the audio clip, it is 5.5 MB in size.

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