The Little Climber

Having an 18 month old means there’s never really a dull moment {at least when he’s awake!} Last week Paxton figured out how to climb up on our guest bed. Oh boy! 

He was quite proud of himself!

Climbing up is easy but getting down is a little trickier!! He hung here for a minute or two!

Makes for funny pictures! And look at that fluffy bum!!I know he’s thinking, mama, stop taking pictures and help me!

And since these were taken, he’s not mastered both getting up and getting down…the boy is quick!

Naptime

Paxton’s nap schedule has gotten crazy since he’s been cutting his molars. He went from a nap at 10 and 2 to no naps or a nap around 3 or 4. To say the least it’s been a bit challenging however I always put him down around 10 and 2, trying to keep up the consistency in hopes that once this round of teething is over he’ll start napping again! Thankfully he doesn’t scream and cry the whole time he’s in his crib. Instead, he has a big ole time!

This particular day I heard all kinds of commotion to find him running all around the crib! He’d taken off his socks and his pants and threw his blankets and babies out of the bed! I snapped a few pictures real quick of him in action!

The baby head stand…he spotted me!

Happy to see mama!

Of course he really was tired. I put his socks and pants back on, grabbed a blanket and his paci and rocked him in the chair in our room. In a few minutes he was out! After he’d been sleeping for a few minutes, I put him down on our bed and within 3 minutes he was up. I went and picked him up and he pointed back to the chair so I just sat him in it. In a minute, he was sound asleep again:He slept like this for nearly an hour! Propped up in the chair! So stinkin’ sweet!

Naptime Antics

During the past few weeks Paxton’s nap schedule has been changing. He has been taking 2 naps (around 10 and 2)  but has gone to taking one nap if I’m lucky and many days no nap! The one saving grace, the fact that when I put him down for a nap, he typically is content playing in his crib! {I’m so thankful he doesn’t stay in there screaming and crying.}

As you can imagine, a child in a crib for an hour with only a teddy bear, a baby doll, a blanket, a bottle and a sippy cup gets creative as far as entertaining himself!

The new trick:

Trying out the one shoulder look! The past 2 days now I’ve discovered him after “nap time” {aka, play time in the crib} just like this! It’s hilarious! 

Our silly boy!

His other recent form of entertainment lately, taking off his socks and chewing on them! Yuck! I’ve been finding him sock-less with damp socks on the floor after naps!! Seriously, there is never a dull or non-entertaining moment in our home, I can’t even begin to imagine what it’s going to be like with 2!

Our Little Explorer

Paxton loves being outside! I suppose most little boys do! When we put on his shoes to go outside, he just lights up and has a blast exploring the world around him in our yard!

Lately he’s been into rocks! We have a paved driveway but there are some spots with some gravel and he loves examining the little rocks! 

He looked so cute exploring with his little boots on!

He found some sticks outside while looking around! {Sticks make wonderful drum sticks for little boys!}

Marching around with his “drum sticks”!

And he found flowers!! They might be dandelions but he loves them!

Diaper Tales

Tuesday was one of those days! Monday Paxton started to develop a bad diaper rash (which we’ve never dealt with before, thankfully!) He woke up Tuesday morning around 4:30 and had poo’d. It was all over his bottom and he was hurting and didn’t want me cleaning off his bottom  so I had to wake John David up for help. We were able to get him cleaned up, gave him some milk and put him back to bed. This was only the beginning!

He woke up around 9:15 with another poopy diaper. I took his diaper off and carried him to the tub to rinse off his bottom with warm water so I didn’t have to rub his bottom at all. While he was in the tub, he pee’d!

When I got him out of the tub I dried him off and figured since he just pee’d that I would let him run around naked for a little while so his bottom could air out. Not 2 minutes after drying him, I look over to see him peeing in his bedroom floor. {Thankfully on the hardwood and not the rug!} I grab him, carry him to the bathroom and as soon as we get in there he pees again! {At this point I’m thinking, where does this kid keep all this pee!}

I wash him off again and put a pre-fold on with a snappi without a cover for air flow! He goes off and starts to play!

About 9:45 or so (a mere 20 minutes after peeing in the floor twice) he comes to me with his snappi half off and the pre-fold is wet! {Again, I’m thinking, how did he pee again?!}

So we walk to the bathroom so I can take off the pre-fold and just dump it in the diaper pail. As soon as the pre-fold comes off, he pees and pee and pees! I figure he has to be out of pee now so I let him roam naked once again!

About 5 minutes later, I’m sitting at my desk and he comes up to me and pees all over my legs! At this point I say forget the whole airing out his bottom thing because I’ve cleaned up 4 big puddles of pee in less than 30 minutes! I put him in a pocket diaper!

I’m guessing his bottom was itching a little because I found him with his little crack showing! Incredibly cute!!

That afternoon I decided to put him in a disposable so I could put diaper cream all over his little bum. He wasn’t in the disposable long until he had done this:

So funny! He was just walking around as content as can be with his bum hanging out!

Tuesday was certainly full of humor for me but it was quite  a bit of work! Throughout the day he poo’d about 5 times and every time I brought him to the tub and rinsed his bottom off. Of course the events of the day were funny but I felt so bad for Paxton and his poor bottom. Thankfully it didn’t seem to bother him too much and he was acting like himself as long as I wasn’t changing his diaper!

We’ve kept diaper cream on him throughout the week and finally today his bottom is looking almost normal. I’m so thankful he hasn’t dealt with diaper rash much and has only had one severe rash. My heart goes out to mamas and babies that deal with constant rash.