As our previous post has stated, we put Scott into a big bed about a month ago. The transition wasn't going as smoothly as we had hoped, both Jill and I weren't getting much sleep, and it was starting to wear on us. So we decided to put Scott back in his crib. He actually has slept better in his crib than in his big bed, however, he can still climb out of his crib. This was a little worrisome to both Jill and I as we didn't want him to fall out and hurt himself. So Jill was able to find one of those tents that you put on top of the crib so the child can't climb out. It arrived Wednesday evening after we had put Scott to bed. We thought, ah, we'll put it on tomorrow since Scott was already sound asleep.
The next morning Jill came in the bedroom to check on Scott and saw him climbing out of the crib and thought, "I want to see how he does this" so she proceeded to watch from a few feet away. Instead of climbing down out of his crib like usual, he decided to jump down and landed on all fours! Unfortunately his right arm caught the brunt of it.
The little guy has braved his "scratch" well (as he likes to call it). He loves showing it to people and gets lots of sympathy from all around. It's been amazing to see how quickly he has adjusted to just having one usable arm. The doctor said he should adjust within a few hours, and he wasn't kidding. Here's a picture of him sleeping last night. Even though he has adjusted to the use of one arm, his left eye still requires a pacifier to fall asleep, otherwise, he's up all night, just one eye open.
A Beautiful Baptism Girl
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