Poster Child/Model Mom

I like to think of myself as a "model mom," someone that all my friends look to for advise. So that instead of thinking, "what would Dr. Spock do?" or the more relevant, "what would Dr. Sears do?" they would think "what would Dallass do?" W.W.D.D. (Can't you just see the money making paraphernalia I could come up with?). I don't think it would work. When people see what kind of a mother I really am, they won't be thinking W.W.D.D.

I pride myself on all the "natural" decisions we've made concerning our son. He was born via "natural child birth" so that I wouldn't risk harming him with drugs, has not had any shots/immunizations so that he can live life with a fully functioning immune system, and has only dined on the purest breastmilk(except that time Grandpa gave him caramel apple dip-but we don't talk about that). All those things are great, right? But lets take a closer look...

Here is my son sleeping in his bed:


He's so cute I can hardly stand it! If only I could figure out how to pinch his cheeks without waking him. But we'd better zoom out to uncover the real problem.



He has to sleep on top of his blankets. If I try to move them, he scrunches them up and lays down on them himself. If you look closely there is a hidden blanket folded beneath the sheet-gasp! He would actually prefer that the top blanket be covering his face as well, but I have to put my foot down somewhere!

I'm pretty sure the American SIDS Institute will be calling. I think they'd have something to say about this picture, but my weak answer is: I can't get my son to sleep any other way. Okay, there is one other way and I KNOW they'd have something to say about me letting my son sleep in my bed.