I thought about this as I watched Nate crawl out of Harrison’s room last night.
No, really. He CRAWLED out on his hands & knees because when he went in for one last check before bed, Harry popped up on his elbows. Looked around like, “Hey, WTF?!” & Nate hit the floor before he could be seen. & as our son grunted & tried to go back to sleep, his father army-crawled out of his room in silence while his mother buried her face in a pillow to stifle the laughter.
But really. It’s meant out of love, but I’d totally be creeped out if I knew someone was standing over me in the dark, silently watching me sleep, analyzing every breath for five minutes straight.
& damn, now I can’t get that song out of my head now. “I always feel like, somebody’s waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatching me!”
omg this is hilarious.
hahaha!! happy friday, BA :]
We do the 'freeze' and stand in the same position until we know LO hasn't noticed and is back asleep. Either way it's creepy and hilarious all at the same time! Happy Friday!!
I love the "freeze."
Like the kids are T-Rex's & can't see you if you don't move!
That is freaking awesome. I've frozen in my tracks before and once when trying to get her to sleep in the pack n play in my parent's house I laid on the floor so I could jiggle it and rock her to sleep and then I crawled out of the room.
Haha, I did this last night! Can't let them catch you or they'll want to get up!
I can't count how many times my husband and I have done this. My favorite thing is when I'm crawling out and I look over through the crib slats and he's just staring at me, like wth are you doing?
I laughed really hard at this, because I almost had to do the same thing last night. I kept hearing R make noises over the baby monitor every hour and half or so ALL night. Not distress noises…just like he was talking to himself. So hubby & I had a debate (at four this morning) as to whether he was awake or just talking in his sleep. But I didn't want to go in, because he wasn't crying, and if he was awake, I didn't want him to see me and then think it was time to get up and play. So one of us was about to try to crawl in the room when the noises stopped…so we all just went back to sleep.
I hid under my sons crib several times. He finally figured me out and would just wait until I came out. He gave me this look like "the jig is up!"
have done this so many times, and yes, I would be creeped out by myself.
so. true.
We are creepy stalkers of our kids. Someone has to be, though, right?
I can't believe I'm actually going to disagree with you BA! If Jacob ever catches me watching him sleep…he always opens his eyes and gives me a sweet little coy smile, like "ahh…mama's here" and then drifts back off.
However, as much as I adore her, my MIL does this "creepy mouse" game with J…she'll walk her two fingers up his arms saying "creepy mouse, creepy mouse" kind of like the "Spider-Man" song and then tickle his neck. DH and I look at each other like "ok, he loves it, but that's disturbing".
That's my creepy story.
Been there, done that, on my belly, heart racing. I believe I stopped breathing until I fully exited the room. It was the closest I ever came to acting like a ninja, I believe.
Blair,
I am having one of the worst weeks in my life (literally) and reading this post actually made me smile and laugh. I can just imagine watching my husband do that with Preston. Thank you for making my day better.
~Miranda~
LOL. We do that. I totally love to go in and watch my girl sleep. I kiss on her and she rarely wakes up. They are just so precious. But yeah, total creepers.
Haven't you ever looked down at your LO and just wanted to crawl into their crib, cuddle up beside them and fall asleep? I have been tempted to do that many times but being 5'11" I don't think it would be all that comfy.
And just wait until the tables turn. When Harry's 4 and suddenly you feel like someone is staring at you in your sleep and you jolt awake and there he is. He is standing by your bedside like a little ghost and whispers "I have to go potty." Yeah, that's pretty creepy too. He'll get you back…just wait!
I wrote a little about that here at the bottom of this post:
http://piersoll4.blogspot.com/2010/06/beautiful-b…
Haha– Yep, I do it regularly. I take it to the next level though, because I also have the video monitor next to my bed. Her room is seriously 10 fee away from mine, but still…
LOL. Nice. I've done similar things…I keep telling myself that I won't always check on my boy, like, say, once he's like 12, because there are things that 12 year old boys do that their mother's just should not see.
Anyway…last night I went to check the boy and he was laying there, watching me with a big grin on his face, aiming a toy shark at me like a weapon.
That should see 'feet'
I thought the same thing a month or so ago when DH and I were in DD's room checking on her and I whispered 'wouldn't it be creepy if people did this to us??'
BTW – your chicken & dressing casserole? Fab!!!!
I do this ALL the time. If B is alone with daddy & I come into the room he will start crying if I try to leave, so I have had to duck and crawl out of the room many a times.
Baaaaahahahahha! I have done this many a night! Ironically, it's been a year since MJ died.
This made me giggle. I call that move the "mission impossible," because I'm usually navigating the baby toy booby traps all over the room while trying to avoid being seen.
And really, it is totally creepy. I wonder some times if my kids are going to develop paranoia over my incessant stalking.
i haven't had to do this yet with my little guy- but when i was a nanny, i had perfected the army crawl!
This made me literally laugh out loud. What a good dad!! Gotta love the army crawl. Thanks for making me smile
OMG, we do this all the time!
That is too funny!
At least he is still young enough for a crib and he can't sneek out of his bed and into your room at night.
OMG. Just this weekend, I was going in to get the paci that had fallen on the floor. My kid didn't hear me open the door, so I army crawled until I found it, then thought to myself, "how am i going to slip this in where she can see it but not see me."
Then I looked up and saw her, pushed up on her knees peering out over the bumper, like "Mom, what the HELL are you doing." I laughed out loud, she laughed.
Nap FAIL!
hahahahha! Eric has perfected the Sudden Drop to the Ground. and i laugh my ass off every time.
so good.
Hahaha. Yeah I totally do that too! It's just the beginning of the weird and crazy stuff that we'll do as parents
so true. one time i rolled out of alex's room because i thought crawling was too loud.
wtf is wrong with us?
Haha, we just had to do this last night for the first time. We always check on her before we head to bed and last night she totally caught us and we both on cue dove for the floor and had to hold in the laughter until we were safely out of her sight. Oh the new adventures of parenting!
my husband always asks me what my secret is to getting our daughter to go to sleep. i laugh when i say "run and don't make eye contact!" works like a charm everytime!
I'm totally guilty of this. But, Reagan got even. We had a bunch of OOT relatives staying at our house one time and we decided to put an air mattress on the floor of her room for hubby and I. She was about a year old. During the night, I woke up and she was just sitting in her crib with her face close to the slats, just staring at me. Totally creepy and I couldn't get back to sleep.
I had to acquire ninja-like stealth when our Youngest Boy was "learning" to fall asleep on his own.
Incidentally, one of my closest friends asked me at what age you stop checking to see if they're breathing during the night. I told her I would let her know. And my oldest is 7!
hilarious! what a good daddy!
Haha, the visual is cracking me up.
Creepy is when you army crawl IN and OUT. My first baby NEVER slept…EVER. So when he did we
A)sighed in relief for the first 20 minutes, after celebrating we
B) started to get worried (Is he even ALIVE? Why is he sleeping?) so we then
C) had to check on him (only used a mirror under his nose a couple of times) so we crawling into the bedroom then of course
D) he woke up.
I said I would never (EVER) have another child because I don't do no sleep well and I found out how truly essential sleep is. Luckily we only had *TWO* more.
I HAD to laugh when I read this b/c this happened to both of us last week! We went in to check on him and he woke up and we both hit the ground FAST! I was trying so hard to not laugh & Zach wouldn't lay back down and so we just had to face it and get up and walk out. He cried for a few moments, but went back to sleep within about 5 min. HAHAHAHA Glad it's not just us that it happened to.
This just made me laugh out loud. Thanks for that!
Oh the infamous 'Duck and Cover'. Ive done that and low crawled it out of there! lol.
I just laughed so hard I'm crying. I needed that, thank you.
I have so done this! I felt like an idiot… but if my son is still sleeping, I have no shame!!
Talk about a creepy stalker…. I was THAT Mom that held the mirror up to her little nose and mouth to make sure she was breathing. It didn't occur to me until afterwards that I could have just looked at her stomach going up and down.
I blame the lack of sleep I was getting at the time.
This post totally made my day. I laughed so hard when I read it because I too have been there.
I grab the push nightlight and shine it over in the crib when I see a pair of eyes looking at me. I turn it off quickly and then pause for a moment hoping she did not wake up….so funny what we do as parents and so true how creeped out we would be if we knew someone was watching us sleep.
I had to do something like that last night, and he just looked up puzzled and said "Mom??" Once I said "Yes, now go back to night night," he immediately hit the sheets. No wonder kids think there are boogey men under their beds as they get older…maybe all of our creeper moments stay with them!
OMG. ::dead::
I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes when I'm putting clothes away in his room he'll start to wake up. I've hidden in the closet for 5 minutes before I was sure he was asleep and tip toed out.
Sounds just like something my husband would do!
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I want you to know you’re a breath of fresh air. I love how honest you are. I have gone through similar things as you: miscarriage, PPD (still fighting it) going back to work after having a baby. Thank you so much for sharing. I’ll definately keep following
This is the first time I've seen your blog, but I can tell that I'll be reading it a lot as time goes on. This post is soooo true! Once, while trying to get my daughter on a more independent sleeping schedule, I had to duck down behind a tent in her room and was held captive there for about 10 minutes until she was silent so that I could do the army crawl out of her room. Oh, the good times!