Back down to Defcon 3
Okay, so, I made nice with M., heard from an old friend (who actually wasn’t who I was talking about in the earlier post, but it’s always very nice to hear from old friends!), and generally brought myself (and probably my problematic blood pressure) back down to a reasonable level. Oh, and the mail from the landlord helped, too (my husband’s remark that he knew about the $75 thing, after telling me first that we’d have to buy a new dryer ourselves, and then backing down to “we’ll just have to pay for the repair,” didn’t help as much - grrrrrrr. That man absolutely cannot admit when he’s just plain wrong!).
So, an update on the toddler bed situation: she actually slept well in the bed last night. We did everything exactly the same way we do it every night - milk with Daddy, three books with Mommy, then our goodnight script and lights out. And she did it all very well…but we were very, very tearful when we went through our scripted lines at the end. She kept looking over at the empty crib and her little lower lip just wobbled - it was very pathetic and I felt horrible for inflicting the change on her. I know that when she gets used to it, she’ll love it and probably start getting up to see what she can get away with. But, in the meantime, it’s a big change - probably the first really big change of her whole life.
And, in other toddler news, she’s discovered that if she lies on her belly with her arms under her stomach, her hands reach down to where it (apparently) feels very nice. She’s been doing a lot of this lately…I guess it was only a matter of time.
