Fear

I haven't seen this marked on the memorable milestone charts but it is a new and very real development for Jace. I wrote a while back about the terror at the car wash. This week he decided that storms are scary too. Specifically, Jace is scarred of thunder. Twice this week we experienced afternoon thunderstorms that are so common this time of year. I've always liked them (as long as there is no hail. Hail is very bad.)
The storms made Jace nervous and delayed his nap one day because he got scarred right as he was laying down. Then, two nights ago he woke up in the night crying. When Joel asked him if he had a bad dream Jace started saying, "Thunder. Scarred." There was no storm that night and after resting in our bed for a little while and rocking in the chair in his room he eventually went back to sleep in his own bed. Last night he started talking about thunder while we were getting ready for bed. Again, there was no storm. When I tucked him in he sat up and watched me leave the room. Then he whimpered a little. Then it got quiet for a few minutes and we assumed that he was falling asleep. Then there were some weird noises on the baby monitor. I listened closely and then decided to go check it out. Jace was hanging over the crib rail, stuck. He had attempted, wisely, to climb out feet first but couldn't get his upper half out of the crib. He was whimpering. That scarred me. I got him out of the crib and sat down to rock with him. He never went back to his bed. He started crying about thunder and would start screaming anytime he thought we were making a move to put him back to bed.
He spent the whole night in our bed. That's never happened before. He is the only one who slept well. I'm not sure what to do if he continues to be scarred of his own bed. Obviously, we will make some steps to get him transitioned out of the crib but yikes. I need that down time in the evening after he is asleep in his own bed.
He is napping in his bed right now. Hopefully, that is a good sign.