Munchkin Olympic Event

Posted January 16th, 2008 by Mom |

It is around 11.30 at night. I am checking email, eBay, etc. in the kitchen on the computer. B isn’t home from work yet, C is asleep. J is not asleep as of a half hour ago when I last checked on him.

Slam. J just closed his bedroom door. The question next is, “Do I go check on him immediately?” Nah. Chances are high that J closed his door with the intention of turning on his bedroom light (a no-no after lights out time) to look for a toy. Next question, “Did the loud closing of the door wake up C?” Nope - C hasn’t called out for me. *Sigh*

If it wasn’t raining, I would go outside and peek in his window (J has his blinds raised a bit since he has had a difficult time keeping his hands off of the blinds as he looks out his window. Wooden blinds are expensive and I raised them to cut my losses!) instead of obviously opening J’s bedroom door. That thought brings up another host of questions - Would me looking in his window scare the heck out of him?! Would I find a little face peeking back at me?! What would I see J doing if I peeked in his room?! Where’s Tara the cat? Did Tara come in J’s room and J quickly close her in the bedroom with him? I don’t think so. If he did that, I would hear a host of giggling (or loud meowing). Maybe.

If this was a toddler Olympic event, with a 5 being the top score in each category, I would have to give J a zero for originality. He would have gotten more points if he had ever so quietly closed his door. For determination, the boy would get a 5. (His hardheadedness ensures that he would get at least a 4 in this category without even trying.) For endurance, I would have to give him a 5 as well. He is quiet and as far as I know, his door is still closed.

I guess enough time has passed. I’ll go check on the little munchkin and try to get him to go to sleep. If he found what he was looking for, he is probably already asleep. Maybe the 3 hour nap he took was too long this afternoon. Ya think?!

Update - I found Tara asleep on the couch as I went to check on J.

I checked on J. He didn’t lock his door when he closed it. Prior to J closing his door, he obtained C’s portable CD player with over the ear earphones. I am amazed that J -not only- got the CD player working, but GOT THE HEADPHONES ON CORRECTLY!! It is really good that I checked on him. The boys are not allowed to have any type of cords in their rooms - too big a chocking hazard.

J was listening to Chris Tomlin’s Indescribable. Most excellent song. J was also asleep. I tried to very gently remove the headphones, but J had his hands up to his face and I had to move his arm to get the cord of the headphones away from his body. This woke him up. FYI - waking up J from a hard sleep is not a good thing. He got very upset and said, “I need dat. It helps me go sleep!” (with a bit of a sleepy whine to the tone.)

I gently explained to him that no one in this family goes to sleep with cords (not even C! - this made it ok for me to take the CD player and headphones away) and that I would talk to Daddy about getting him a radio/CD player for his room. J broke his other radio, so we would have to give it a lot of thought, but I think enough time has passed that J has been without music, that he understands the consequences and really misses the music and CD stories. J requested that I put the CD player on his dresser, but I told him that it couldn’t even be in his room. I told him that it would be in the living room table for him to listen to in the morning. I finally got him calmed down and back asleep.

Wow! I will be more cognizant to check on him more quickly next time. This could have ended very badly. Here I was poking fun at him with the imaginary Olympic event and he could have been choking to death. This was a Big Time reality check for me!