Blog-cation

My AS Blog is going on mini-vacation. 

Summer days with Maddie: are feeling repetative.

• she wakes up WAY too stinking early, and I worry about her going near the baby unsupervised
• she wants to eat CONSTANTLY
• she alternates between being the sweetest and being a complete pest to everyone
• she alternates crabbing about me refusing to take them someplace/anyplace and balking at me when I insist we leave the house
• she refuses to go to bed

We’ll spend our 4th of July weekend camping at our local state park where we will get to see fireworks.  Hopefully there will be some cute pictures for me to post come Monday.

If you are dying of boredom, I’m doing a little better job of keeping the posts current on my hometown blog www.blogsmonroe.com/moms

Happy Fourth of July!

Child Safety

It has been big news in my town of Monroe, Michigan about a little girl gone missing and eventually found dead.  (Story archives on Neveah HERE.)

Most people suspect that someone close to the girl is responsible for this, which is I guess somewhat of a comfort that there isn’t a random child killer on the loose in our small community.

But it still brings up the question of how to teach a child with Angelman Syndrome about ’stranger danger.’  When you love everyone and are so happy to talk with anybody, that’s not safe.

the giant baby and the dutch door

Little Nathan is 3 and a half months old, and appears to be a giant:

 

OK, maybe not ACTUALLY a giant (although considering the size of his mother, I’m not ruling out the possibility), but Nate lookslike a giant in his bassinet. 

I’m disappointed!  I like to keep the baby sleeping in my room in a bassinet until they’re almost old enough to sit up, usually six months of age or so.

So now Nathan is going to need to sleep in the crib in his own room.  So this brings us to the dutch door.

Maddie (who has Angelman Syndrome) gets up at night.  Not every night, but when she is, her actions are completely random. 

Most times she will go to the upstairs den and watch TV, or she’ll come to my room. 

But in the past month or so, she has tested her limits.  Maddie decided she can open the gate at the top of the stairs, and go downstairs and eat unsupervised.  Nothing would’ve stopped her from going outside.

She has cut her hair with cuticle clippers.  She could have caused a lot of trouble messing around in the bathroom.

There is a real possibility that she could do something to harm Nathan, intentionally or unintentionally.

So we’re at the point where we need to re-evaluate our nighttime safety.  I hope the solution to this is a dutch door.

HOPEFULLY picture of the dutch door coming soon.