Beau Breugelmans is, by any measure, a pretty good sleeper.
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The hardy toddler has a proven ability to sleep through almost anything - including a complex and delicate operation to free his foot from a drain.
The ACT Emergency Services Agency sent two firefighter crews around to the Breugelmans' family home in Holder yesterday morning after Beau and his sister's mischief-making went awry.
''We were all out the back, the kids were playing, and [Beau's] three-year-old sister, Chloe, called out and said you'd better help,'' his mother Kristy Breugelmans said.
The pair had pulled the cover from a drain and were stuffing leaves into the hole when young Beau, nearly two years old, got his foot stuck in the crevice.
''He sort of fell down this pipe, and we tried ourselves to dislodge him but his shoe was sort of stuck in a bind in the pipe,'' Ms Breugelmans said.
Mum and dad dialled triple-0, and the firefighters embarked on a delicate mission to climb underneath the house and dig up the pipe Beau was stuck in.
''We put a pillow down underneath his body, and he lay down and went to sleep,'' his mother said.
The firefighters eventually manoeuvred Beau's foot free.
The tricky rescue operation took about half an hour, but the slumbering lad barely woke when he was finally released.
ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics gave him the once over to make sure he was all right, and Beau was put to bed to sleep off the ordeal.
Ms Breugelmans said her son was typically a very good sleeper.
''He's a pretty cool dude,'' she said.