This kid

 Just about everything I do with this kid deserves a #Ivemadeahugemistake.  He is out of control.  I think, or at least I tell myself, it's because he's ridiculously intelligent but doesn't know how to channel it, yet.  I should probably do some reading on how to focus the hyperactive yet intelligent child.

Back in July, after screaming in his bed for nights on end, where Greg promised him for a least a week that if he'd just lay down and go to bed, Greg would turn his crib into a big boy bed, I finally felt bad for all the semi-lies and disassembled the crib and then reassembled it into a toddler bed.  Henry thought it was awesome.  He refused to let anyone touch his big boy bed.

Until bed time, when we both wanted to hashtag our Ivemadeahugemistake out of the toddler bed and back into a crib.  Like I said, Henry has a hard time with boundaries and control.  He couldn't control himself that night but was so tired and want to sleep but lacked the ability to stay in bed.  He even asked me to put the crib back up.  I refused.  I may have given up on potty training and am still putting off taking away the pacifier, but my laziness came through on this one--it took a good 45 minutes to take his crib apart, I wasn't about to put it back together.  Greg turned the lock on his door around to at least keep him in his room.  Around 11, I found him like this, mostly asleep on the floor reading himself stories.  He only did that the first night; he now does a pretty good job of falling asleep in his bed.

Most mornings I find him like this--sound asleep in the most uncomfortable position possible (for me) in my bed, with Zora and Greg, having abandoned ship, on a couch somewhere else.

On the bright side, Henry is so crazy and active, that even without a crib, he still takes a 2-3 hour nap most days.  I'm not sure I could survive him without the nap.

Also, if we want to add a tendermercies, when he's not being crazy, Henry really is a very sweet boy and I happen to have crushes on just about every 2-year-old boy so I really do just love him to death and he just melts my heart.  Which is good, or he'd be dead.