So I'm writing this post while laying in my bed. At 11:10 pm. With the bedside lamp on.
Why is this a big deal, you might ask? It's because the portacrib, which is right next to my side of the bed, is EMPTY. Elliott is not in our room. He and Brady are now in their own BIG BOY ROOM! It's so weird. For almost 15 months, we have had to tiptoe around in the dark and now... it's just unsettling. Once I get used to it, though, it'll be great!
We decided to put the boys together in a bigger room in our house. That meant that today our house was a complete disaster area as we pulled all the furniture out of the guest room and put it in the living room, then moved all Brady's furniture plus Elliott's new big boy crib (that we got for free at a garage sale because it started raining and JW helped them move their stuff inside before it got soaked) into the guest room, then put the guest furniture into Brady's old room. I think it's pretty close to finished now, and I like how it's turned out. Brady thinks it's pretty cool to share the room with his brother, especially cause bad guys are really scared of TWO boys, whereas just one boy has no effect and they'll just come on in a wreak havoc.
Another unsettling development is Elliott's newest word: NO! NOOOOOO!!!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Screamed at the top of his lungs, most often at his brother. Isn't he a little young for that kind of behavior? I mean, time outs don't really work on 14 month olds, so what are we supposed to do? Our current tactic is ignoring it, hoping that he's just yelling NO because it gets a reaction, and therefore if he gets no reaction he'll stop yelling it. He hears it all the time (although not screamed) from Brady, so I shouldn't be surprised he knows it. He is rather adept at picking up new words.
This not-sharing-a-room thing isn't working that great right now. Every time there's the slightest peep out of the monitor I am hyper-alert. It's almost midnight, so I'm going to turn up the monitor, shut off the laptop, and hope for the best.
Newest words: baby, spoon, open, NaNa (for Ninya), Tee-Tee (Uncle T), Papa, and we may have heard "thank you", although maybe not. Oh, and I can't forget NO!!
Brady is a little unsure about turning 4, which happens later this week. He sometimes gets really sad and tells me "I don't want to be four. I want to stay three. I like being three. I don't want to get bigger. I want to stay this same tall". Poor thing! I had to think of some things that make being four awesome: you can be on a tee-ball team, you can do gymnastics, you can eat big boy vitamins (yeah, I'm really searching) and we'll get to go to Great Big Wolf Lodge. That got him really excited. He LOVES that place!
