Max falls out of his playpen for the first time

We need a new place for Max to sleep.  Fast.

Max was unusually fussy last night.  He awoke several times for extended periods.  We gave him acetaminophen (tylenol) but it didn't seem to help.  Greta and I lay awake in our bed listening to him cry over the intercom.  Finally, at about 4am, the crying was punctuated by a loud thump, followed by more ferocious crying.

Half asleep, I assumed that he was just banging his playpen against the wall again.  Half asleep, Greta did a standard vault-out-of-the-bed-in-a-mad-panic.  Turns out her panic was justified.  She found Max screaming on the floor in his room, outside his playpen.  Fortunately he was uninjured.

He wasn't injured, but he was wide awake.  We were in a bind.  We needed to put him back to bed so we could get some sleep for ourselves.  But with him so wide awake and with his new found propensity to do swan dives out of his playpen, we were out of options.

So we took him into bed with us for the rest of the night, paranoid that we'd screw up his excellent track record for sleeping through the night alone in his room.  Naturally, he passed out immediately and slept soundly until 8am, making up for lost sleep during the night and throwing off his whole schedule. (And ours.)

He successfully napped in his playpen today without diving out of it.  We'll try him in the playpen tonight, mostly because we haven't yet found the time to set up a new bed.

In other news:

• I finally got a new chain for our bike today.  I also fixed up another one of our bikes.  We're finally back up to a full compliment of bikes.
• The renovations in Heather's bedroom are now complete.  Heather's pretty busy with school and won't have the time to move back in for a while yet.
• Our renovations are mostly complete.  It remains to finish drywalling our new railing-wall and to fancy-up our stairs.  Rob will be back to help us again.
• After an exhausting battle, the fleas in our house are finally on the defensive.  Every once in a while we'll find one at a random location in the house and I can often find one on the dogs after a few minutes of careful searching.  I'm hoping that our newly reduced carpet area will allow us to eradicate them entirely with another blitz of carpet spray, flea shampoo, and internal flea treatment for the dogs.
• Sorry mother, but I still haven't gotten around to replacing the windshield wipers on the van.