Sleeping on the job.

. I'm sure that all Mothers, Fathers, Mammies, Pappies and anyone else who has had children could write a book on all the funny, embarrassing, horrific and down right dirty things that their children has done. Well, I've decided to share my most recent story because it's too good to keep to my self!

To start off with, I never nap when Eva does. Better yet, I never nap. So it's nap time for Eva and Adrien and I fall asleep watching a movie down stairs on the couch. GASP!! "EVA!!" I jump up and head for the stairs to find my little Princess sitting on a pile of books. That would be the books from the library so you can imagine how many books I'm talking about. Coloring her blocks with a marker which she had previously used to color her arms (left and right), legs (left and right) face and books....

I can't be mad at her even though she knows that markers are to stay on paper because I feel in the wrong for being asleep.. Calmly I remove the marker from her multi colored hand and start picking up the mountain of books. Looking up into my bed room I see that all the cleaning I had done earlier had been "undone". Pillows, sheets, clothes and shoes all on the floor! Twitch. Twitch.

"Eva, you did lots of playing while Mommy was asleep. What else did you play with?" Off to Eva's room we go only to find 100 bobby pins, a million hair bows and every single one of her furry friends on the floor. I keep telling my self that this is what I deserve for sleeping on the job so I put a smile back on my face and get to work. "Mommy, I gotta use the potty..." To the bath room she goes while I'm still hard at work...

Now, I have to take you back to this morning before nap time. I had just bought some Veet wax strips and had decided to try them out before getting in the shower. So if your not familiar with this product (which worked quite well BTW), it's 2 strips held together with wax and you pull them apart to make 2 wax strips which then can be used in your desired area...

"EHHHH!! Mommy, it hurts!! " I look up to find Eva walking back into her room like a duck, where I still am picking up bobby pins, with one strip on her va-jay-jay and one completely wrapped around each hand.

The "Big Girl Bed"

So, Eva is 29 months old now and we felt that it was time to get her the "Big Girl Bed". After trying all the beds in IKEA for about an hour, we finally left with one and then some..
The bed is up and sooo cute! Beautiful white wooden bed, bright pink little bed set covered in multi colored hearts, big fluffy pillows and ten of Eva's favorite furry friends. She just loved it!!! So whats the problem?? THE KID WON'T STAY IN IT!!!!

This is her first nap in her new bed so after putting her back in the bed 10 times I decided to stay in the room until she fell asleep. Well it worked but I'm not doing this every day! I did a little research and from what I read, the best thing to do is to be repetitive and without much talking but the child back in the bed. Do this as many times as it takes because if the child knows that it's playing with your emotions they will continue to get out of the bed. SOOO tonight I will see how this goes.