Our little 18 month old has out grown her crib! She learned how to climb out of her crib on Friday. Anyone who has seen Annie knows she is quite small. Smaller that most her age, she takes after Justin's side of the family. Not mine, I tell you I was a porker when I was little! Not that I am not one now......haha. However, my mother has told me that my brother and I were always shorter than all the other kids...and look at us now! He is 6'2 and I'm 5'11. There was even a time when I was shorter than my friend Katy....and that's hard to believe......she is 5'4!! But all the girls in Justin's family are petite...tall.....but petite. But anyways...... She started climbing out and I got scared because she could hurt herself being so small and all. So I took the front of her crib off. We bought her the crib that grows with her. It starts as a crib, then a toddler bed, then a full size twin bed with head board and foot board.
I took off the front and figured she would have to start learning how to go to bed and stay in bed. We tried it that night and she actually crawled right into her bed and fell asleep. But then after 20 minutes, she fell out of the bed and onto the floor. After that she wanted nothing to do with the bed. So she chose to sleep by the door in her room on the floor! Now I know you are thinking "what kind of mother would let her child sleep on the floor?" "You never knows whats crawling around." But please calm down....once she fell asleep, I picked her up and put her back in her bed. Three hours later, she fell out again and crawled her way to another space on the floor and fell asleep. So I waited, and then put her back into her bed. She managed to not fall out again and sleep until her usual time 10:30am.
So I figured that she was getting the hang of it, and quite surprised cuz she is so young, at least to us. But my Grandmother came up with the idea of turning the crib around so that the front side would now be the wall. The back side of the crib is higher than the front, so now she is unable to climb out because she doesn't have the front to pull up on. And being so small, she cant reach the back side yet! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I outsmarted her!
Now she sleeps just fine in her backwards crib! But there is nothing I can do about the computer table, out bar height kitchen table, her rocking chair, and whatever else she thinks would be fun to climb! She is always moving and always finding new stuff to explore. In a way I kinda like it, to me it means she is using all her muscles, getting exercise and using her imagination. She is just growing up so fast!
