Big Boy Bed!

Prologue

I prolonged this as long as I possibly could. I was so scared that it would bring sleepless nights for me because he wouldn't stay in...I found every excuse in the world to hold off..."He's not 36 inches yet" and "He hasn't climbed out yet". And then those days were no more! The first event that brought me to reality was Christmas Eve and we came home and tried to lay him down for a nap. He was so upset and against sleeping that he just climbed over and jumped out. Jason put him in one more time and he jumped out instantly. Needless to say he did not nap that day and I had to realize the big boy bed was near. I still decided that I was going to wait and see if it became a habit, in order for me to put it off longer. Then on January 1st I woke up to hearing my name too clearly, I looked in the monitor to find him not there (scared the crap out of me!), and then realized he was in the hall scared and crying. It was very scary for me. He said he was scared so I am assuming he had a bad dream and I brought him in to lay with me so he would calm down. He was just laying there but then I kept freaking out thinking "No, I do not want to start this habit....We always said we didn't want out kids to sleep in our bed.." So, since he was calmed down we went and read two books and then I put him back down. He cried a little but stayed in. The final reality check was last Sunday night and Aiden woke up with, I am assuming, another bad dream. I had already been awakened by his cries and then saw him on the monitor start to climb out so I met him at his door. This time I just stayed in the room and we read for 45 minutes so he would feel better. This time he did not want to stay in bed....I would put him in, he'd climb out, I'd put him in and rub his back and tell him it is night night time, I'd walk out, he'd climb out. We did this back and forth for about 30-40 minutes. In and out. I knew that I couldn't give up and that he would eventually be too tired to fight anymore. He had woken up at 4:30 and he didn't stop climbing out until 6:00 am. It was a long morning and I had to be at work that day. So here I was prolonging a big boy bed because of potential sleepless night....but was having them anyway. I knew it was time :)

Big Boy Bed!

We decided to do the big boy bed on a weekend, and this weekend being a 3 day one seemed like a good one! We had bought a converter crib in the first place so we had everything we needed except some new big boy sheets. We went and got him some cool Cars sheets that match the toy organizer in his room, plus we figure it will be a big hit again when Cars 2 comes out. The conversion was pretty simple and then we rearranged his room and it felt good. It was bitter sweet and it felt sad to think he wasn't baby enough to be in a crib anymore, he's getting so grown up. 

Aiden's idea of helping

We changed the bed Saturday night and of course I was all worried that it was going to be torture and he wouldn't stay in and I wasn't going to get any sleep....I know, I know negative Nancy. BUT! He went down fine, stayed in and slept all night!

Today actually marks TWO nights that he went down, stayed down, and slept ALL night. Of course I am very thankful and think that I shouldn't have been so negative. BUT, I will see how tonight goes when I have to be at work the next day. I'm not necessarily being negative...I just don't want to get ahead of myself and think we are out of the woods. This could be the honeymoon stage of a big boy bed! Regardless, I have a big boy in a big bed and I can't believe he is getting so big!