Words you don't want to hear from your 9 yr. old....

Mom, did you take Jake out of his crib?

Me: Where is he?

More words you don't want to hear: Oh my gosh!

Vivian and I bolted to his room and there was my 10 month old, dragging himself around on the floor (his version of crawling), all kicking and smiling and grunting to himself, "Heh heh heh, I'm free! I'm SO getting into to something!"

This being our fourth child and Jake being on the tall side, Bob lowered the mattress all the way down a couple of months ago when the boy started popping up on his hands and knees. Last week when he started standing up in his crib I noted that the side rail hits him at the top of his shoulders when it's pulled up -- WHICH IT WASN'T!!!!!!!

Me: Vivian, why is the rail down?

Vivian: Uhhhhh, I put it down to play with him and forgot to raise it back up.

Me: (staring)

Vivian: (eyes getting bigger as the light bulb goes off in her head) Ooooooooh.

I then proceeded to show Vivian that when Jake is standing in the crib with the rail down, it only comes up to his stomach. And because Jake is not yet savvy enough to keep his secrets to himself, he grunted with excitement and promptly lunged his upper body over the railing to demonstrate my point. To her credit, Vivian had her hands on him before I did. I don't think I've ever seen her move that fast.

Point taken.

(I hope)