How many months did we try to get Doodles to sleep in his cosleeper? We tried to cajole him, beg him, trick him… anything to get him sleeping off of me an on his cosleeper. The cosleeper basically became a place to change his diaper and for me to store my oft-referred to Caring for Your Baby and Young Child.
So it should come to no surprise to anyone that now that we have the cosleeper set up for Sugar Face (which causes major problems for me at 12:57 a.m., 3:23 a.m., and 5:17 a.m. when I need to get up to go to the bathroom), Doodles is all over the thing. He likes to stand on the bed and yell, “Jump!” as he dives for the cosleeper, causing to shake and rattle as he lands with a thump and rolls into the sides.
“Doodles!” I admonish. “You’re too big for that! You’ll break it!” How do we instill the fear of the cosleeper in him that he had just a year and a half ago? And what happens when he tries the “Jump!” move and there’s actually a baby in the thing?
Dammit, some child is going to get use out of that thing in the way it was intended. Until (when?) Sugar Face refuses to sleep in it, Doodles can go to town, but in the meantime, we’re looking forward to daily temper tantrums as we haul his tiny a*ss outta the thing.
