Monday, July 5, 2010

Bad habits we WON'T need to break

I'm sure that we've developed more than a few bad habits with the Little Man in the last year and a half.

Buddy, is definitely on the list. He loves buddy, and I'm glad that he has him (or them), but the nose -it's pretty gross. We'll have to break him of that sooner or later.

We live on a dead-end road with little traffic besides construction workers and a few neighbors, and the Little Man likes to run down the street when we're outside, and we usually let him. There's less chance to fall that way. Not a great habit.

And, at the moment, he's into hitting. We didn't TEACH or even allow that, but he's all boy, and gets pretty aggressive, which sometimes comes out as hitting. We're working on it.

One habit we won't have to break? Sleeping in mom and dad's bed. We've never done it before last night. And I don't think we're in a hurry to do it again anytime soon.

We went camping last night with Justin's mom and step dad and the Little Man woke up when Justin and I went into the tent. He normally doesn't wake up, and when he did, he was crying and a bit panicked. It was pretty cold and would only get colder, so we decided to see what would happen if he slept with us.
The Little Man stayed WARM, and that was the end of the positive outcomes. I didn't sleep for the first few hours, while the Little Man tossed and turned. He was sort of sleeping, but not very well. Justin finally got him closer to him and I think we all fell asleep for a couple of hours. Then the tossing and turning started -for me and the Little Man. It was cold, and uncomfortable. The Little Man woke up at 5 am, and wasn't going back to bed.

We spent the next 2 or 3 hours in the car, turning the heat on, and even driving around the campground until the sun came up and we could go outside.

We had a fun time, the Little Man LOVES being outside, and enjoyed his time with Mimi and Papa -and Sam. Although, everytime night rolls around and we're freezing, he's freezing and no one is sleeping I wonder why we like and go camping so much.
Any suggestions?

1 comment:

  1. Anytime Tanner sleeps in our bed we deal with the tossing and turning and then just as I am getting into some good sleep I get a kick to the head. There is very little that can convince me to let him sleep by me. We have so sleeping bags that are supposed to keep you warm for like 20 below or something crazy. They work pretty well (if you can keep the kids in them).

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