Tucker has discovered that he can get out of bed and leave his room at will during naps and at night. Tucker thinks this is an exciting and stimulating discovery that requires a lot of exploration right now. Austin and I are hoping the novelty wears off quickly and in the meantime are spending a lot of time shaking our heads at each other in a combination of amusement and irritation.
We have established that there are two rules of naptime: 1) Be quiet and 2) Stay in your room. Obviously, these are very nuanced rules that need to be tested in depth. Tucker figured out the first day that if he needs to go to the potty, he gets to subvert those two rules. And so that first day he went potty every 5 minutes for about 5 times straight, squeezing out a tablespoon of pee each time. That did NOT work for me, who had to institute a third rule: Only one potty break during naptime.
He's up there now turning the monitor off and on, turning the lights on and off, shaking a noise maker, running vigorously to all corners of his room, and rolling cars all over the floor. But at least he's still in his room. Sounds like a good nap to me.
