B Back

It must be a full moon...

Ryan is just off the wall! His thing lately is trying to climb on top of me AND Megan when I'm feeding her. I know it's an attending-getting thing, but he's also trying to give Meg kisses and hugs. (By the way, he's actually saying "Megan" now!)

I was feeding Megan tonight, and Ryan was all over the place. Up down up down - trying to kiss Megan - trying to sit next to me - trying to crawl over the back of the couch, etc. Megan didn't like it, I was getting frustrated, and most of all, I didn't want him to get hurt - OR - hurt his sister.

So...I put him into his crib to "cool off" and settle down for a little bit while I finished with Megan. Ryan knows that if he's good, he can take his "B" (binky) with him to bed. It's the only time he can have it. We've started "putting the B back" every morning on the shelf - in fact, we hold him up, and he's the one who puts it back.

I guess I lost track of the time and left him in there a little longer than he needed to be there, because a little while later, I walked by his room and I heard..."Big Boy, B Back" over and over. He was telling me that he wanted to be a big boy and put his B back on the shelf, and of course get out of the crib.

It made me cry. He tries so hard, but he's also only 21 months too! How can I expect him to be a "big boy" when he's still so little?

Thanks for the reality check, Ryan. I love you too!

PS - two weeks in a row for Nursery! (Though he did cry for about a half hour for "daddy" to rescue him!)