We re-did Tage’s room this past summer, replacing the Mamma Mu<\/a> decor chosen for a five-year-old Lydia with a something more in line with his current tastes:\u00a0 superheroes!\u00a0 He’s got Spiderman bedding, Spiderman lamps, Spiderman curtains, and even a Spiderman laundry basket.\u00a0 We painted bright blue walls on which Spiderman figures prominently–with a smattering of Batman and Superman thrown in for good measure–and there’s a suction-cup spider web stuck on his window.\u00a0 Put all that together with a large worktable and the literally hundreds of building blocks he got for his birthday in August, and you’ve got a place he doesn’t want to leave.\u00a0 (He even sleeps<\/i> there sometimes, if you can believe it!)<\/p>\n There is, however, a fly in the ointment of his delight.<\/p>\n Since Petra started walking a couple of months ago, she<\/i> doesn’t want to leave Tage’s room either.\u00a0 And the thing that gives her the most enjoyment, apparently, is razing the elaborate towers he builds and making off with his Matchbox cars.<\/p>\n After too many weeks spent hauling her out of there and admonishing Tage to please<\/i> just close the door if he doesn’t want her in\u00a0 there, we broke down a week or so ago and put up a little baby gate in the doorway.\u00a0 So far it’s working a charm–Tage can be in his room and play in peace without having to be shut off from us by a closed door, and Petra doesn’t mind too much being locked out as long as she can see what he’s up to in there.<\/p>\n Last night I was in Tage’s room gathering up dirty laundry or some such thing, and rather than opening the gate to come out, I just stepped over it.\u00a0 Or I tried to, at any rate.\u00a0 My foot caught on the gate and I tripped, flailing around and scattering papers and toys and a bowlful of beads from the adjacent countertop in my wild scramble for purchase.\u00a0 It was spectacular.\u00a0 Ultimately I succumbed to the inevitable and concentrated my efforts on falling in the least painful manner possible.\u00a0 I managed to pivot just in time to land with a thud on my backside instead of on my face.<\/p>\n I sat for a moment to gather my wits before assessing the damage, and when I looked up Tage was standing on the other side of the gate, watching me in wonder.\u00a0 The corners of his mouth turned up in a small, pleased smile and there was admiration in his voice when he said, “I like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We re-did Tage’s room this past summer, replacing the Mamma Mu decor chosen for a five-year-old Lydia with a something more in line with his current tastes:\u00a0 superheroes!\u00a0 He’s got Spiderman bedding, Spiderman lamps, Spiderman curtains, and even a Spiderman laundry basket.\u00a0 We painted bright blue walls on which Spiderman figures prominently–with a smattering of… Read More Schadenfreude<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}