They are changing the kid's schedule at day care. To move into the one year old room, they need to take only one nap per day and eat once with 2 "snacks". For three days now JB's done it. They "keep him awake" through his normal AM nap and then put him down after an 11am lunch. He sleeps from about 11:30 until 2pm.
Tonight, after a get-home-at-6pm-and-immediately-eat dinner, JB played for about 15 minutes and then crawled up the stairs into the bathroom, with me chasing right behind.
It almost seemed like a "PUT.ME.IN.THE.TUB.RIGHT.NOW." march, but he made a detour to play "open-and-close" with doors and drawers in the vanity. He doesn't understand about handles and slammed his knuckles several times without any yelps or hint that he'd experienced a modicum of pain.
When I put him in the tub, he grew very upset with me for stopping him from pouring water down his own mouth. I was merely attempting to prevent the subsequent cascade of coughing and choking. And so i distracted him with a toothbrush for his 2 enormous top teeth and his two tiny bottom ones. He liked this and "brushed" for a few minutes and then began to brush the toys and the tub, etc. All hell broke loose when I tried to get the dang toothbrush back. He screamed and cried until I took him out of the tub; throughout the dressing and diapering procedures; until he got a few sips of milk and demanded with his slumped-over head to be put into his crib.
I imagine it was at that toothbrush-extracting moment in the tub that the exhaustion of the day overtook him and he just broke down, but I swear it looked for all the world like he thought he was in charge around here.
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