"Mother of the Year"

Well, I had yet another incident that will surely hurt my chances of winning the title "Mother of the Year." I hesitate to even blog this moment for fear of the authorities tracking me down, but I'm going to because I'm sure Ian will enjoy reading about it some day. (That's really my motivation for this entire blog... the fact that Ian will love to read this some day.)

Okay, so Ian was in his room for "naptime." Apparently, he wasn't sleepy, so I was listening to his stories, songs and pitter-pattering feet around his room. I had already encouraged him a couple of times to try to sleep, but he was obviously not sleepy. At one point, I heard him yell, "Hello! Hello!" I just figured he was talking to his Winnie the Pooh that he sleeps with.

After 2 hours in his room, he called for me, so I decided to set him free. He told me he was saying hi to our neighbors. That explained the greetings yelled at the top of his lungs. I asked him which neighbor he saw, and he said he didn't know his name, but it looked like he threw something at our house (the paperboy).

Fastforward about 30 minutes. Dan comes home and asks if I opened the window in Ian's room. I told him that I didn't. (You have to know that we keep his curtains closed because the only thing Ian does in his room at this point in his life is sleep. I wouldn't have seen an open window.) Dan told me that not only was the window open, but the screen was up, too! (Dan and I didn't even know the screens could be raised!) YIKES!

Lessons learned from this experience:
1. Make sure all of the windows are locked!
2. Engage the safety feature on the windows that keeps robbers out and 3-year-olds in... window only lifts a few inches!
3. Teach Ian to not talk to strangers, especially from 2nd story windows during naptime!