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Houdini
By Andy on 16 December 2005 terribly earlyCategory: The Boys
The last three nights Caleb has taken off every stitch of his clothes. Thankfully he always announces his feat to us via the baby monitor: “Caleb not wear jammies” or “Caleb naked.” For some reason he still talks about himself in third person.
The first night he wet himself and his bed after he had undressed. When we got in there, he was curled up in a ball, soaking wet, and shivering. It broke our hearts to see him in that predicament. We cleaned him up, put on new pajamas, gave him a pep talk about how he needs to stay dressed, rocked him. and went back to sleep.
The second night we put a safety pin through his zipper and through the top of his pajamas. His winter pajamas are all one piece, with footies that zip in the front from neck to knees. A little while later, another anouncement came. He undressed himself again. He somehow unfastened the safety pin and stripped once again. He’s like Houdini.
The next night we had purchased a straight jacket…
Seriously, we are racking our brains to come up with “an integrated solution” to keep his clothes on. Here are some of our thoughts…
- Packaging tape
- Crazy glue
- A spanking on his bare bottom
- Set-off the security alarm (which scares him) whenever he makes his announcement that he’s removed his pajamas.
Got a good idea? I would love to know any other ideas you might have on this. For obvious reasons, I’m not too happy with some of our proposed methods…and neither would CPS.
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Ignore it, Sometimes it is just something that they are going to do. I think if you make a big deal about it he may think it is something to get attention for. He will realize that he is either going to get cold or uncomfortable and he will stop. Caleb is a smart kid. He will figure it out. If taking his PJ’s off is the worst thing he ever does, you are lucky.
— Susan Dec 16, 09:10 AM #If you truly love him, you’ll join him and make him feel like he is normal and his self-expression is ok. :-)
— Chris Dec 16, 12:33 PM #Chris: We tried already :)
— Andy Dec 16, 02:34 PM #I agree with telling him that you will spank his bottom, since I am not the one who has to do the spanking!
— MiMi Dec 17, 07:22 PM #Andy, get ready, this is just the beginning of many situations yet to come, and since Caleb has Tiffany’s strong will, all I can say is take some Prozac! Better yet, bring him here and let me take care of him. I have ALOT of experience!
All the pictures are great. I braved the snail show in opening all of them up so daddy could see them. Thanks and I am so glad yall had a great day! Can’t wait to see yall!