Refrigerator

Remember this lovely? Well, for those of you who are just now discovering my blog, this is a refrigerator lock that I installed in August to keep Marsh out of the fridge. Well, it's done a pretty good job....... until recently.

I discovered this morning that Marsh not only know how the lock works, but he knows how to get around the lock. Yep, that's right. He is that smart.

First he tried to push the button in while pulling on the door. Fortunately our little 2 year old isn't strong enough yet. Then he decided that the easiest way would be to push up on the long side lock part until the latch was free. Oh yeah, he can easily do that. GREAT! The fridge popped open, and before I knew it he was trying to hoist a brand new gallon of milk out of the door!

THE DOOR!! He would have succeeded too, if it hadn't been for us meddlin' parents! I can't even imagine having to clean up that mess. Oh I don't want to think about it! This just means I'm going to have to pay more attention to the fridge again.

Oh, and Mike thought it would be a good idea to take the door knob covers off of Marsh's bedroom door. Umm....yeah, that's all fine and good until I take the front off the crib and turn it into a day bed. Yeah, then we'll have a little one running around the house, and either pounding on our door or trying to climb up on Mike's side of the bed (depending on whether the door is open or closed). Not sure if I really want that.

Maybe I'll hold off on the whole daybed thing. How long did you guys all wait before putting your kids in a "big boy" or "big girl" bed instead of a crib? My mom thinks we should wait until we have another baby, but at the rate that is happening Marsh will be 5...or at least 4-ish. I'm thinking that it's getting close to being time for the front to come off, but Mike isn't sure.

Marsh usually doesn't take a nap during the day anymore, so he goes to bed around 7, and usually sleeps all night unless I get him up to change him before I go to bed. But then there are those nights where he fights and kicks and screams and cries and cries and cries until we let him fall asleep on the couch watching Spongebob or Cars or Ratatouille or Baby Einstein videos. (Those aren't my favorite nights!)

One Bottle Days

So, after posting my last post, I realized that I do have something somewhat worthy of writing about. We are weaning our dear little Marshy off of the ba-ba (bottle). OH KILL ME NOW. I'm sure that it is much harder on me than it is on him, but it's rough! Today was what we call a "One bottle day". Basically, I pack the diaper bag for work with one bottle, and then a whole bunch of sippies with juice, milk, water, whatever. Then, he only gets the one ba-ba until it is bedtime at home, or naptime, depending on when we go home from work.
I don't know if you can see, my kitchen is so dark even with all the lights on, but this is a shelf in our cupboard. It is full of ba-bas and sippies and parts to broken sippies and ba-bas that we saved (the good parts, not the bad, as spares).

On Wednesday, I bought Marshy 4 new sippies. I even let him pick. He chose Cars and Spongebob over Elmo. He wanted them so much that he screamed hysterically when I handed them to the cashier to ring up, and she put them in a bag. He made it his mission to get them out of the bag so he could hold them. But do you think he will drink out of them? NO!

This is so frustrating. But, next week will be worse. Fortunately I'm not going to work on Monday or Tuesday, probably, so we can work on completely phasing out the ba-ba during the day. Wish me luck! I really hope he will start drinking juice. I only bought about 10 HUGE things of juice at the grocery store this week. It's not like I'm swimming in juice or anything. It's not like I'd like to stop spending tons of money on 7 gallons of milk a week (this week I only bought 5, and I hope we make it!).

In other baby training topics.....Marshy has learned to open the refrigerator, and has discovered how much fun it can be. Especially carrying around the milk or juice or terryaki sauce. It is especially handy for baby when he decided he needs a ba-ba. Oh dear! He just helps himself to the milk. We haven't had any spills yet, thankfully, but I was so sick of having to keep yelling "GET OUT OF THE FRIDGE!" "DON'T CLIMB IN THERE!" "LEAVE THE TERRYAKI SAUCE ON THE SHELF!" Seriously....all of these have come out of my mouth at some point this last week.

So, today Marshy and I took a trip to Babies-R-Us. They have a HUGE safety aisle....okay, it isn't that big, but it is bigger than Walmart's. They had several options for fridge locks. Mike was worried we were going to have to drill into the fridge, since it isn't ours, and we wouldn't be able to get a lock. But we were lucky! Apparently the new fad in baby safety is 3M sticky foam tape. This is quite nice for us renters, who don't want to go drilling into cabinets or refrigerators. We bought a great latch, and it was only $2.00! (see photo below). Now, I can't wait for Marshy to try to get into the fridge! I'm sure he will be so confused, but it will help keep the peace and save my vocal chords, so it will be worth it.
Now, if only I had paid the $16.00 for the toilet lock......