Lucky Charms and Bed Talk

This morning I'm eating my Lucky Charms at a leisurely 7am. Will decided to let me off easy by waking up a few times in the 12 - 1am hour, instead of rising at 5:30 this morning. He recently moved into a "big boy" bed. We followed through with the conversion of our convertible crib (from crib to toddler bed to it now making up the head & foot board of a full-sized bed). Many kids Nate's age, 2 1/2, are still in their cribs. (Side note: Will just came over with a brick of a wet diaper so I had to take a time out to change him & find some clothes for him to start the day in. It's so strange that he, and many children, don't seem to understand it's the weekend, in which moms should be allowed to have coffee, Lucky Charms and putz around on the computer a bit before the kids need diaper changes, juice-filled-sippys and breakfast... Thankfully, and as usual, I had a healthy pile of clean clothes on the dryer so Will was dressed in no time!)

Back to the "big boy bed". . . Nate didn't have the luxury of cribbin' it away because he was only 12 1/2 months old when Will was born. Because I kept Will in (and I highly recommend these things) a, was it 3-in-1, 5-in-1 or 20-in-1? bassinet beside my bed for a few months, Nate was probably somewhere around 16 months when he moved into his queen bed. I wasn't sure how it would go, but I wasn't interested in buying another crib, in fact, we didn't even buy side rails. We went for it, and, beside quite a bit of getting up & trying to come see us and/or reading his books when he should have been sleeping, it was wonderful! He didn't fall out and he slept well at night. The best part was the free range of such a snugly, bouncy, expansive space. We could wrestle & read together, and Nate was able to spend time in his bed when he wanted to. I believe it gave a real boost to his "reading" and is still a place he can go to relax and have any additional quiet time he needs. Though, I'm not afraid to admit, I do nearly lose it when he comes out during time-outs sometimes still.

So, that's why I chose to move Will into his big boy bed, too. As far as I know, he's never flopped off (no rails) and just the pride in his eyes when I set it up was worth it to me. He's "reading" more books now and spends time with his brother playing on his bed at least a couple times a day. And as I was with Nate in the beginning, I nearly lose it when he repeatedly comes out at naps & at night. But bumps come with every transition, and I know it will fade with time, as it has with Nate, who rarely comes out after going down at night.