Naptime Sneakiness

For Sipsey's nap, I send her to her room and tell her she can play quietly or take a nap. She always chooses to play for a little while before she takes a nap. Unfortunately, the playing-quietly-with-her-door-closed instruction is a little too tempting to play with things she isn't supposed to play with. We have a video monitor that I use to check on her periodically, but I did not catch this. As many of you know, hospitals now send samples of formula home with new moms in hopes that they will hook the newborns on a certain brand so the moms will buy it exclusively for the first year of the baby's life (and this strategy works). I brought home probably 50 tiny bottles of ready-to-use Similac with the nipples provided in sterilized wrappers. We used the formula to supplement Sipsey's bottles starting at 5-6 months old, but never needed the nipples. I saved them because I save EVERYTHING that I just might use again (or I thought I could donate them). But now, there are none left because Sipsey found them and opened every single one and was thrilled to tell me about all the pacifiers she found (and there were way more than the photos show!)!