I am sorry I haven't posted a lot lately. I wanted too however I have been too sleep deprived since Henry learned how to climb out of his crib on Christmas Day. At first he wouldn't stay in there at bedtime, we would have to keep putting him back in over and over again. The first few nights this took up to an hour and half and I lost count of how many times I had to put him back in. We debated about converting his crib to a toddler bed but I wanted to try to train him to stay in his crib.

After about a week and a half we got him to pretty much stay in his crib for naps and when we put him down at night. However, he had started to wake up in the middle of night and climb out of his crib. He would then come out of his room and wander around the house at all hours of the morning (you know like 1 AM, 3 AM, 4 AM, 5 AM, 6 AM...after that you just give up and stay awake). Things Henry likes to do in the middle of the night include:

• Playing with the space heater in his room. 
• Going down the stairs and then when you go to get him run around the downstairs until you catch him.
• Go downstairs so quietly you can't hear him until he turns the stereo on and you wake up to people "talking" in your house. 
• Climb out and play with all the "musical" toys in his room. 
• Dump out all the toys in his room so that Mommy will step on them in the middle of the night when she comes in half asleep to put him back into bed. 
• Throw Puppy out and then cry loudly until you come and pick him up and give him back. 
• Get the Star Trek laser gun toy and hold Daddy up at gunpoint when he gets out of the shower. 
• Put Mommy's toothbrush in the toilet that is filled with pee (because we are terrified of flushing the toilet in the middle of the night and waking Henry up). 
• Take Mommy's iphone and hide it! 
• Squeeze hand lotion all over the floors and himself.
• Dump lots of random toys into the tub. 
• Wake up his brother at 6 AM (or earlier) so that Mommy will have to deal with TWO grumpy sleep deprived kids. 
• Open up the fridge/dishwasher/door to the trash can and get stuff out. 

It has been what,  two weeks? We are all exhausted. This is how exhausted Henry is:

 C and I came to the conclusion that unless we get him a crib tent of some sort there is no way we are ever going to sleep through the night again. Today I ordered a crib tent online and in a few short days (and long nights) I will be able to lock that kid into his crib at night (yessss). And hopefully get some much needed beauty sleep.

Off to nap!

Adventures in Virginia:Kings Dominion

Wow, it's been forever. I have had tons to blog about but I keep forgetting or I don't have time to get on here. oh well.

Today we celebrated our independence by visiting King's Dominion in Doswell, Virginia. Christopher and I have both visited this theme parks as kids/teens and we had fond memories so we were looking forward to visiting while we  are here in VA. When we saw that they were offering free admission to military and discounted tickets to family members we decided that it was the perfect way to spend the Fourth. We had lots of big plans for roller coaster and the splash park. We packed a cooler, swimsuits, and our diaper bag and we were off!

First thing we found out that is that Wesley is only 44 inches tall and at King's Dominion that means he can't ride about 90% of the coasters there. No Grizzly. No Rebel Yell. No water rafting ride. No Volcano Blast coaster. No Dominator, no Shock Wave. No fun. Especially when your child who is SO excited to ride a coaster is in tears because he keeps getting told that he can't ride.

We spent a lot of time on the "Ghoster Coaster" (the old Scooby Doo roller coaster for those who are old school). And we did the Avalanche and the Ricochet (which has the be the scariest coaster I have ever been on because I was about 99% sure either Wesley or I was going to be flung out and fall down to our death several times during the ride). We had a great time at the water park (even though, event here he could only go on ONE flume ride. Lame.). We did go on other rides (no bumper cars as, again, he is not 48 inches tall yet). He loved the log/flume ride. I guess I can't complain too much since we had such a great discount on tickets. I sure felt bad for parents who paid full price for a ticket and then found out their 44 inch child could not ride most of the rides. But I won't go back unless it is an adult only trip or until all our children are over the height of 48 inches.

Christopher and I did have a great time trying to remember all the rides and stuff that used to be there. No more Hanna-Barbera charachters but lots of Sponge Bob and Minions. Smurf Mountain is gone (SO sad!) and so is the Haunted River that used to be in the mountain there. The Yogi Bear/Flintstones cave (we couldn't remember which one) is now a "Treasure Cave" (which was still cool). Scooby Doo/Ghoster Coaster is no longer lime green, but is now painted blue.

It's a great park for teens/adults but not great for kids. Glad we didn't go for a season pass. We are looking forward to going to Williamsburg, altough we will defnitely be bringing a grandparent (or two) along to help out with Henry (who did GREAT, BTW, hardly fussed even though he didn't nap and it was crazy hot-he loved the splash area...and that was about all he could do there). We would love to do some coasters with Wesley (the two of us plus Wesley).

Oh, and I forget our camera, so no pictures. Even the two I took on my phone did not turn out. Oh well. Maybe next time.