Escape from the CRIB

Peyton had another first today. We somehow escaped from our crib. Yup, that's right. Rob and I were cleaning out the baby's room and Peyton seemed to be tired so I attempted to put her in her crib for a mid-afternoon nap. She was not happy about my decision. We let her cry for about 2 minutes and Rob said "did she get out of her crib?" I was like "no way, she's just banging against it." He said "it really sounds like the door." We were just next door in the baby's room so I thought I would have heard it. So I got up and went and checked. Sure enough - she was knocking on her door from the inside. She had successfully escaped from her crib. I immediately opened the door in fear of a broken bone or something worse. As soon as she saw me she stopped crying. I scooped her up and did the 100% body check and nothing. Of all times, we were upstairs and not downstairs by the video monitor where we could have witnessed the escape.

This all took place around 12:15 p.m. The rest of the afternoon went on as usual. No temper tantrums and no real issues. At about 4:30 p.m. (when I was typing the post before this) she got into her chair to eat a little snack. Halfway into her bagel things go SILENT. Rob and I look over and we spot the image below:
Her bagel got the best of her!

Status Update

It's now 4:39 p.m. and Rob has officially completed his two major tasks. His first task was to fix the neighbor's mailbox that he destroyed with his truck. He successfully called a Handyman service to come over on Tuesday and take care of (there is no way he could have done it this week with the weather we had.) All I have to do is write the check.

His 2nd task was to help me clean out Baby #2's closet. We have completed that. We pulled everything out, sorted it, repacked it in Tupperware and put it back in the closet. The dining room looks like an alien breeding ground with all of the black garbage bags full of clothes. It's now totally organized and ready for little pink outfits to be hung. We also moved all the storage containers from Peyton's closet to Baby #2's. This way all I have to do is buy some baby hangers and start putting the 0-3 outfits up. We'll be ready to go in no time!

I'm waiting for Rachel's pure genius to help decide how the furniture should go and what color we should paint. She has so many great ideas.

Thanks to everyone for the well wishes for Rob. This is one of those funky deployments where it's hard to be sad since he's going to Hawaii, but he's still going to be gone. I hurt for Peyton, but fortunately she's young enough to not realize what's going on. She will miss him, but she has a lot of love here in Fayetteville. She will also have a lot of visitors coming in and out. It's nice knowing that Rob is literally a plane ride away if something does happen. It's also nice that he'll be back in August for the birth of the baby. Hopefully he can stay 2 weeks or more. I know time is going to fly by since it will only be 5 months until we see him again. Between being pregnant and working each day will go so fast. I think it helps too when they're gone during the summer because I feel like there are so many more things to do in the warm weather. The weekends are the hardest so if you fill them with activities they go quickly. Alright, I'm rationalizing.

For those military spouses out there you know the feeling. For those civilians, it's hard, but it's doable and it's the man I love so you just deal with the cards you're dealt.

I'll touch base later in the week. We'll be busy with Rachel and Lorelai being here. YAY!!!!!