Ditzy Mama

I talked about Aubrey potty training a long time ago, and I mentioned that she still wore pull-ups to sleep. At the time, I wasn't concerned about it in the least, and that's still the case. We haven't really even tried to get rid of the pull-ups at night, and it's not something I even think about. That's kind of beside the point, but I wanted to give a little background info for this post :)

Our little nightime routine has always been for David to put Aubrey to bed, and I put Jude to bed. This works well for us; David and Aubrey enjoy their time together before bed every night, and when I was nursing Jude, it just made the most sense for me to put him to bed. Jude usually goes to bed a little earlier than Aubrey, and last week there was a show coming on that David wanted to watch. I told him that he could put Jude to bed, and I would put Aubrey to bed so that he could watch his show sooner. Aubrey and I did her little nightime routine. We brushed teeth, put on pajamas, and read a story. I then put her in bed, prayed with her, and sang a song. I came downstairs, and she went right to sleep, and we never heard a peep out of her.

Until around 3:30AM.

She woke up crying and calling for David. She sounded pretty worked up, and he went to her room to check on her. I noticed that he was gone for a while, but I dozed back off and never thought about it again.

The next morning, when I went to get Aubrey up, the first words out of her mouth when I opened her door were, "Mommy, you forgot to put my pull-up on, and my pants got all wet and I had to change them!" I looked, and sure enough, she had on a different pair of pants than she did when I put her to bed.

I called David to get the full story. Apparently, I did, in fact, forget to put Aubrey's pull-up on. Ummm.... Oops! He said when he got to her room in the middle of the night, she told him the same thing about me forgetting to put her pull-up on, and the funniest part was that she had already gotten up, taken her wet clothes off, put a pull-up on, and put dry pj's on. Ha! It was also funny that her bed barely even got wet. I felt like such an idiot, though! How do you forget to put your child's pull-up on?!

My excuse is that when I put her down for her nap, I always tell her to go put her pull-up on herself while I'm putting Jude to bed. So when I get into her room, she already has the pull-up on, and I just immediately read her a story. Weak excuse? Perhaps. ;) If that one doesn't fly, I'll resort to pregnancy brain!

I'm pretty sure after that little episode, David is going to stick to putting Aubrey to bed himself. Hahaha!