Purple Pinkies and Interventions

Purple Pinkies and Interventions

October 20, 2008, 4:17 pm
Filed under: A Day in the Life, Parenting

Not surprisingly, we kicked off the weekend with a small natural disaster. Tornado Taylor gusted through the living room, forcefully knocking a barstool to the ground. Thankfully, all evacuated safely…except for her pinky finger. The tiny victim was squished between the metal leg of the stool and our hardwood floors. The little limb survived, but is now a beautiful hue of blackish-purple. According to her Paramedic Uncle Matt, it’s just a bad bruise. Phew.

On Saturday, we had an intervention. First, a little bit of background: Taylor is a great sleeper. She goes down for naps and bedtime with no problem. If she ever squeals after we leave the room, it means she either threw her paci or blankie out of the crib. We go in, put it back in the crib, and she’s good to go. Another bit of background: my child is a nude baby activist. When we get home from school, she takes off her clothes and screams “naked!!” She naps naked, she plays naked, she eats naked. I’m sure you’ve noticed, since most of her pictures are in the nude. Jimmy is concerned that this will continue into her teen years and she’ll think it’s acceptable to strip naked while out to dinner with her dates…

OK, back to the story. On, Saturday afternoon, I put her down for her nap. She played for a while, then started yelling. I went in, expecting to find her paci or blankie on the floor. Instead, I found a buck-naked toddler standing in the crib, looking at all of her stuffed animals, pacis and blakies on the floor. Apparently, she was streaking through her crib and all of her friends and valuables jumped overboard. We sat her down, with all of her stuffed friends, and had an intervention. We placed her diaper back on, and had a heart-to-heart about her bare-booty obsession. Back to naptime it was, and back to stripping she went. Long story short, after some advice from Tiffany, I think we found a simple solution. Put bloomers on her at naptime. When she still feels naked but doesn’t have easy access to her diaper, she stays clothed. It worked on Sunday. I’ll keep you posted if we have any future problems with her nakie baby activism.

Never a boring weekend in the Brady house!

Taylor accidentally smacked Jimmy in the nose with a crayon during some nude coloring. Look at that concern.

And, she goes in for the post-booboo “sorry” kiss

Tay with her new “loon” (balloon). Look, she’s clothed!

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