A Loss for Words

Are you ever for a loss for words with your kids? I know that today I woke up and just thinking about Brady and I don't know how to even explain this kid. My poor sister in law and I have had the same challenges this week with our sons getting out of bed during nap time and night time. Brady unfortunately learned a new devious trick as well. The door knob he knows how to lock and unlock. We tired putting on those knobs that kids aren't suppose to know how to open........yeah brad figured out how to open them. So we are just stuck teaching him to stay in bed. Well this week I went to the door to put him back in bed when I go to turn the handle and realize its locked! I say in my best stern voice " Brady Andrew you open this door right now!" and I hear this little voice yell NO! and feet scampering up to his bed. Well at first I'm panicking thinking what if he falls? What if he hits his head and i can't get to him? So I decided to use sound affects to let him know that I'm serious, I start banging on the door and yelling at the same time, "Brady Andrew you open this door right NOW! You are in big trouble mister!" And then i hear a defiant NO! Back and then he just starts yelling it over and over! So finally I thought "OK fine stay in there then you little......"and stomp off hoping no attention will cox the little bugger out. It worked I hear the door unlatch and low and behold this is what I see......

Brad that night had the same thing happen to him....he tried a "fun" approach (you can see our parenting personalities shine on this post) he says in a sing song voice "Brrradddy! Open the doooor I have something to telllllllllllllll you!" Brady gets right up to the door and says back in the same sing song voice "NNNNNNOOOOO" Brad had to get out the tools right then and there open the door and switch the knob so the lock is on the outside. Victory! Or so we think........

So then yesterday was Church and Brady actually didn't do so bad. He went to the older nursery, which he was going to go to in January anyway but they decided for the health of the other children he should go early. So I walk past the window at one point and see all the children doing an activity with the teachers but i don't see Brady. Then I look closer and he is there under the table with no shoes on playing with another little girl. Sigh........will he ever learn anything at Church? Are the teachers going to give up on him? I pray that they don't but at the same time I don't blame them! So we pick him up and take him home. Our Church is from 2-5 so soon as we get home I make a quick spaghetti dinner and we strip Brady down to his diaper. Although yesterday we had a surprise, I was putting the dinner on the table brad was taking off his nice clothes and I hear from Brad, "Dana! Is there a reason Brady has no diaper on?" What? I reply, yeah we found he had a completely bare bum! We couldn't figure it out! How did he manage to take his diaper off and NO ONE notice? We looked all over the house but couldn't find it. So I called our faithful sister in nursery to see if had taken it off at chruch and we all missed something and she did not know about it either! None of us could figure it out! So there could be a dirty diaper sitting somewhere in the nursery room, or in my house! We tried asking him about but he's not into ratting on himself so we got nothing. Really what do I do with him? One of the sisters at my Church walked by and saw me looking in on Brady and she smiled a wise smile and said, "The first boy is the hardest!" And I said "Really, its not me?" and she said yup, it made me feel so much better! So what do you think is it a gender thing? Is it Brady being the first child? I just hope we find that diaper somewhere...........who knows what's in it!