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20th February 2008

Posted in: 29 Days of the Everyday, Blog: Life with Lucy & Alice, body wonders, mind madness, news from the change table, photos

I went upstairs around 9 last night to check on Lucy after she took a long time to get to sleep.

This is what I saw:

 

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Day 20: 29 Days of the Everyday

Lucy, you see, is going through the toddler phase of “Lucy do.” She wants to put on her own — and our, on us — boots and socks, and also wants to do snap buttons and zippers. We always let her try until she invariably gives up and comes to us for help. We usually just have to start the zipper or slip a sock over her toes, then she finishes.

Well.

We’ve been encouraging her to help zip up her sleeper when getting ready for bed. This, obviously, has backfired. Because now she’s discovered how to undo that little snap button at the top of sleepers — specifically put there to prevent wee fingers from grasping the zipper pull! — and un zzzzzip herself. After which she can get her appendages out until she is, in her own words, “nayyyy-kid.”

Thank goodness she’s keeping the diaper on.

p.s.: This better not continue when she becomes a teenager. 

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There are currently 4 responses

  1. On February 20th, 2008 at 1:01 pm, Mom/Nana said:

    YOU, my dear daughter, even took the diaper off, and flung the contents over the crib, walls etc.

    I am going to staple them closed when Lucy is with me!!

  2. On February 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm, Cristen said:

    Geez, that looks cold! did you dress her up again, trying not to wake her? My Lucia fell asleep in the car on our way home from McDonald’s and then she woke up at the tail end of my gentle efforts to ease on her pj’s. She then stayed awake for two whole hours, driving me crazy. Next time she’s sleeping in her clothes.

  3. On February 20th, 2008 at 5:31 pm, Carly said:

    Haha, yeah, I did. After Eric rolled his eyes at me for taking her photo…

    She was really pissed at being woken up, but I managed to shove her into them with her barely cracking an eyelid — just squawks from her mouth ;)

  4. On February 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm, Carly said:

    BTW, Cristen — We can NEVER sneak Lucy into the house. She can be sound asleep, and as soon as the car shuts off or a car door slams, she’s wide awake.

    We’ve tried a few times putting her in her pajamas before we leave somewhere late, in hopes of getting home and sneaking her into bed. We now realize it’s fruitless.

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