Life with a Two Year Old

It's been 4 years since I've had a 2 year old in the house---how soon we forget how funny and naughty they can be!!! Mason has always been a very mild child, but now the mild has turned into WILD! He is so crazy and into everything. This picture is a perfect example. He went upstairs and a few minutes later came down wearing his sister's pajama shorts, his brother's slippers, and pushing around a toy bow and arrow.

Over the past month or so, he's developed some amazing new talents such as: opening the fridge and getting food out, opening the front door, pulling all the books off the bookshelf in Zackie's room, taking off his clothes, taking off his diapers, dressing himself, and my absolute personal favorite---climbing out of his crib!

His timing is impeccable! Doesn't he know that in a few short weeks there will be another little person I will be trying to get to sleep? Now because of his newly acquired skill, naptimes and bedtimes have become disastrous because Mason knows he can just climb out. After a few days of fighting him with it and putting him back in the crib over and over, this week I finally give up. I'm too tired to struggle with him anymore. So the last 2 days I've tried the "couch approach" and so far so good. For naps in the afternoon, I just turn on a cartoon (like Dora or Calliou) and let him fall asleep on the couch. For bedtime we'll turn off most of the lights and he'll sit on the couch with Andrew and I and jump around and be silly for a few minutes and then after a little while you look over and he's sound asleep. So for now, it's working. I don't know how long it will last though!

However, there is one new thing that we're very happy about--Mason wants nothing to do with binkies anymore. He had one left that he was clinging onto for months, and now he picks it up, looks at it and throws it back down on the floor.

HOORAY--NO MORE BINKIES :)