Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Bed vs. Dresser

Have you ever had one of those heart stopping moments as a mom?

I had one of those moments last night!
My daughter (who will be 2 on Saturday) has just started sleeping in her "big girl bed"...which for now is a matress on the floor.
She has done GREAT...no problems putting her down, doesn't come out of her room, etc.

Last night she did something I haven't even seen one of my boys do yet!
We put her to bed...she cried and cried and cried...much longer than normal for her.
I went in to check on her and she was standing on top of her toy chest by her dresser (this is not the scary part!)
I think she got up there and couldn't get down...so I got her up, calmed her down, cuddled...everything was all good after that.
About 30 minutes later my husband put her back down to bed. She cried for about 1 minute (which is normal) and then stopped...we figured she was one tired girl!

We had my sister-in-law and her family over visiting last night, and when they went home they were missing my nephew's flip flops. My husband checked in Sarah's room.
He didn't find the flip flops...he found this...

...where my heart did a little flip flop when I saw her!

She had climbed up on her toy chest, up onto her dresser and FALLEN ASLEEP!!! It looked like she was lying there with God's hands holding her. It was a very precious picture, but a heart stopping one also! How easily should could have fallen, but she didn't! God holds little ones in his hands!

However, the toy chest was moved last night before we went to bed! :)

For some more cute pictures of her check out my sister in law's blog here.

3 comments:

Stacey said...

Oh Tina, I still can't believe she did that!! What a precious picture but man that was scary!! In God's hands is exacty what it looked like to me, too!!

Sherry said...

Wow what a dare devil. I can't believe that she did that. She does look cute in the picture though. Oh all these stories that I here from you and Stacey. I am not sure if I want kids some times. Wow!!

Anonymous said...

I loved this and being there for your expressions was even better.
It was a great thing to tell.
And you're view of hte picture was just right cause there was no room left on the dresser...Bless her heart.Precious to save and show her later, graduation is a good time.....