The Family O' Blevins

Here are the various environments by which we've tried to crush Chloe's tenacity for staying awake. Whenever we hear a forlorn squawk a little too early and a little too often, we switch to a new bed. As you can see, Chloe has taken over our bedroom. We moved the mattress into the other room. The one other room. Sleeping, cooking, eating, playing and... don't worry we do have a bathroom... all of it in the same room messes with your mental compartments a bit.







90 degree angles and plywood. Effective until she kept whacking the sides with her hands. We don't know if it mattered to her, but we figured we might as well retire it back to the closet it came from.













The previous director of IBJ in China had a wee one before she went back to the states. She left this basket with my supervisor, so he kindly passed it on. Apparently there's a market for babies that are three feet long and wide as a forearm. In any case, Chloe seems to have enjoyed it!














The deluxe crib. Chloe's grandparents' suitcase. It's wide enough, but she crams herself into one corner of it. Too much freedom is a dangerous thing, after all.