Adventures at bedtime

Any of you who talk to me frequently know that Sadie is a character when it comes to bedtime. She will do pretty much anything to get out of her room when she is supposed to be in bed. I don't really feel like writing the entire thing here, but my mom wrote about how we finally figured out how to keep her in bed on her blog here. (see #4 in that post) Anyway, so we finally got her to stay in her bed by threatening to take something out of it every time she got out.

Now she stays in her room after we put her down, but we found out that she is not staying in her bed. When I would go in to her room in the evening to check on her, I would often find HUGE piles of books from her book box in her bed. She literally only has a small little corner that she fits in when she does that. It is pretty funny. But one night, she came to the door about an hour and a half after we put her down and said something like "uh-oh". So I went in there to find this:

If you can't tell what that is in her bed...here is a closer look:

Yep...that is right. She took every single piece of clothing, including socks and hats from the dresser in her room. That means her clothes, her brother's clothes and some other odds and ends that were in there. All of the drawers were COMPLETELY empty. Oh boy. Do you see how high that stuff is piled on her bed??? Sheesh. So I made her help me put them all back in the drawers and it took me about 45 minutes the next day to re-fold everything and put it back where it belonged. Wow. What a strange thing to do. I think she did that because I noticed that anything that was left on the floor or on top of the dresser when she went to bed ended up in her bed when I would go to check on her. So I started taking everything out with me when I put her to bed. So I guess this was the only thing left to do...

...Since then, we haven't had any problems with her emptying out her drawers. She mostly just got into her books because that was the only thing to get into since I wouldn't leave anything in there for her to get. Or so I thought. The other night while Rob was at scout camp, I went in to check on Sadie. I noticed something weird on her arms and realized that she had put on a little hoodie jacket thing that belongs to Zac. I looked around on her bed and realized that she emptied out the dirty clothes bucket and put the contents on her bed. Sigh....so now I take that out at night too. What a busy little girl. I keep telling Rob "I wonder what she will do when it gets dark outside earlier? Will she still try to get into things or will she just go to sleep..."

I am a little nervous for Zac's safety when we try to move him in there....