Mother's Day
I had a really nice Mother's Day weekend.
Saturday morning I woke up to breakfast in bed from our favorite breakfast place! Somehow Kayla stayed entertained long enough to allow us both to eat too! Then we went out and bought a kids seat for our bicycle and sand for our sand box and we made use of both of them!
On Sunday I got a card from David and a book from Kayla (Are You My Mother? by Dr Seuss). Kayla was so excited to unwrap the gift that she barely got it near me before she had it unwrapped! It was pretty cute!
Then after dinner we took another bike ride to our favorite ice cream place and enjoyed our first ice cream there of the year! It was a relaxing weekend and we enjoyed spending the time together as a family.
I did have an interesting surprise. When Kayla wakes up she is typically in a good mood and we usually let her entertain herself for awhile. After she'd been awake for a little while on Sunday we went to get her and get ready for church..... and found her sitting in the rocking chair in her room reading books! Somehow she was able to climb out of her crib and made it over safely (apparently!). I really thought that whenever she figured out how to do this (and frankly, she's always been a climber so I knew it was only a matter of time) I would hear her thud and thought she would either be hurt or scared and crying, or excited and proud and shrieking with joy! Neither was the case. David said he heard a thump, but she often makes thumping noises. She was rather proud of herself, though! And it was very sweet that she was sitting in her chair reading (did I mention she was also 1/2 undressed too??!!). However, this leads to a whole new level of parenting that I wasn't quite ready to deal with. She really isn't old/mature enough to be alone in her room. If we put her to bed with the side of the crib down, she probably would immediately climb out rather than go to sleep. However, I don't want her climbing out either, that's not safe my any means! So... I'm hoping that this was a onetime thing (doubtful) and meanwhile looking into buying a crib tent. There will be a time and a place when Kayla is allowed to be in her room by herself and able to sit in her chair and read. But now is not that time. And I don't want to have to get her the second I hear her wake up in the morning, or the minute she wakes up from a nap because I'm afraid she might climb out. So, we are working on how we want to handle this current situation.
