Jackson's Version of "Home Alone"

In our attempt to get Jack to stay in bed the other night (yes, we are still dealing with this and yes, it's been 52 days) we decided to try a new tactic. We were going to ignore him. Completely. And be as boring as possible. We're normally SUPER exciting at night, let me tell you, so it was really hard.

So for roughly an hour Chuck folded laundry downstairs in complete silence and I read a book in bed. Jack was left to his own devices.

Here is a list of the things he did, aside from the normal opening and shutting of doors:

• climbed under gate and walked around basement for awhile
• hugged Tugboat - a lot
• played with his spoons and bowls
• came out of his room completely naked, having thrown his diaper in his diaper pail (this was a repeat from the weekend, when he came out to find Grandmommy and he was totally naked and covering his eyes so no one would see him)
• came out later with no pajamas, but this time left the diaper on
• pushed his highchair from the kitchen into our master bathroom
• brought his pillow into our room and demanded to come up on the bed
• came into our room covering his eyes - went to Chuck and gave his legs a hug and then to me to give me a hug (trying to ignore this is really hard because it's actually pretty cute)
• retrieved my yoga mat and took it into the living room

Finally he went to sleep. We were all exhausted.

Then my mom's friends brought up other suggestions for how to keep him in bed. We tried one of the suggestions last night and it worked like a charm (thank you Genie!). I sat on his couch while he fell asleep and then left the room. Nice and easy. So he's sporting a bull riding sticker this morning. Go Jack.