Last night I was watching an episode of So You Think You Can Dance on Hulu & nursing Payton. James came in & sat with me on our loveseat in our bedroom to watch. I handed him Payton when I was done nursing & I watched him as he swaddled her up with both of her swaddling blankets & walked to her bedroom to put her in her crib.
Just after 2:00 am this morning, Payton started crying. I laid in bed thinking "that's strange, she hasn't woke up this early in a really long time". I got up & went to go get her thinking "I will just keep her swaddled & see if I can rock her back to sleep." I reached down to pick her up & noticed that her arms were out & above her head. I felt around a bit more and noticed that she didn't have any blankets on. Then I brushed against something with my left arm & I realized that it was her blankets, they had been taken off of her & draped over the side of the crib. I picked her up, grabbed the blankets & rushed to our bedroom & asked James if he went in & took her out of her blankets. Of course he didn't & we started to panic. The top blanket looked like it had been opened but the 2nd blanket looked like it was just loosened & she was slipped out & then they were both draped over the front gate of the crib. This was definitely not something that could have been done by my 3 year old & my 19 month old can't get out of her crib, yet alone open doors & climb into her sister's crib, so we knew it couldn't have been one of the other girls. We started freaking out & went through the whole house twice looking in closets, under beds, behind furniture, & there was no sign of anyone having been in the house. After about 2 hrs, we finally decided to try to go back to bed, but of course being paranoid, protective parents of our 3 little girls, we left our door open with a light on out in the central area of where our bedrooms are & took another hour or so to get back to sleep.
We keep going over everything that happened & we cannot come up with an explanation of how it happened! We are feeling a bit scared & uneasy about the whole thing, but we are grateful that all of our little ones are ok, especially that nothing was wrong with Payton & that she was safe. I wish I knew how those blankets got off of her & draped over the side of the crib.
