Sunday, November 27, 2011

Lowering the bar

This morning while we were still asleep I heard Davy wake up over the baby monitor, he turned on his mobile and started making the little noises he makes when he is talking to himself. As this can go on for hours before he actually wants someone to come in and get him I rolled over and went back to sleep. Then both Kevin and I were woken up by the sound of Davy falling down and then crying heavily, the way he does when he gets hurt. I jumped up and started to get a bottle ready, thinking that he had just fallen back against the crib while he was playing with his mobile (the mobile does not have the hanging parts attached anymore but the base still makes music so we leave it for him to play with). While I was getting the bottle ready I heard this knocking noise coming from Davy's bedroom door. But I figured it was him banging on the wall or something. Imagine my surprise when I opened his door and found Davy sitting there with a toy waiting for me! Turns out the sounds we had heard had been Davy crawling out of his crib. I took him back to the master bedroom and told Kevin and then took Davy back to the living room and laid him down with his bottle.

While Davy drank, Kevin and I looked at the crib and figured we could drop the mattress further. So we lowered the mattress and Kevin went back to bed. I watched Davy for signs of a concussion, but after playing and crawling and seeming to be fine I finally put him down again for his morning nap. In a much lower bed. Scary the things that babies put us through.