Showing posts with label insanity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label insanity. Show all posts

August 28, 2011

Sunday Life Saver

I'm having a VERY hard time giving up the infant car seat for Tudles (my 13 month old son).  You might think it's because I am in denial that he is not a baby anymore, as BabyCenter's weekly email titled "Your TODDLER this week" kindly reminds me.  But no, its not that!  I've got a bad case of Parental Insanity during 3 hours of church.  Toodles will take the occasional afternoon nap during church ONLY if he is strapped in to that lovely apparatus.

I think about the fact that he really needs a forward facing TODDLER seat every time I see those legs curled up in the car or like today when I put him in it during church and his feet were literally hanging 3 to 4 inches off the end.  Picture this...


OK not that bad!  I know some of you are thinking how unsafe this is, but honestly we are planning on getting one just as soon as Mr. Medic lands a super sweet J-O-B (keep your eyes and ears peeled for anything medical, preferably, and pass the word along.  We will love you Sandlot style)



Anyway back to the point.  Tudles usually falls asleep just long enough for me to focus on the most important part of church, taking the sacrament or bread and water.  But of course after a good 30 minutes of effort, he didn't fall asleep.  So I decided to keep the kid strapped in.  To my surprise he lasted a whopping 45 minutes allowing me to still be focused and to actually listen to the talks.  It was my Sunday life saver!  

I was just telling Mr. Medic this very morning that I dread church because Tudles is so disruptive and I don't hear a single word that is spoken.  Blessings do come in mysterious ways, even if it does require you to look like a total white trash weirdy keeping your child strapped in a car seat that is far to small!