Sunday, September 30, 2012

Big Boy Bed!

Yesterday we went out and bought you a big boy bed.  It is super cute with your two favorites-a cat and a dog-on the headboard.  When I asked you if you wanted blue or white, you said very clearly "ummm, blue". and even said it again when I asked a second time.  (We had already picked blue, so it's a good thing you agreed!) My plan was to give you a very slow transition, thinking that you are still pretty young to move out of your crib and that you may like the safety of sleeping in your crib.  I was planning to do a few weeks of story time in your bed, followed by a few weeks of just naps, then slowly move to night time in the bed.  This all went out the window when we saw how excited you were about your new bed.  We didn't know how you would do but decided to let you try to sleep in it last night.  We knew that your crib was still right there if you decided you weren't ready.  We moved all of the questionable furniture out of your room and put a gate outside your door so that you couldn't escape.  We were prepared for a long night.  You did AWESOME!  You had a bit of a rough time settling down at first (but the past few nights have been rough for you either way), but once you fell asleep you were fine.  You didn't try to get out of bed a single time.  We think that you may have hit your head on the guard rail at one point, but that was about all of the excitement that happened.  You are still sleeping soundly in your big comfy bed and I am astounded that my sweet baby boy has gotten so mature.
One thing that your dad and I love about your new bed is that we can snuggle with you in there.  It is more comfortable now than the glider, and we liked being able to sit with you in your bed to read books, and lay down with you to help you settle down.






For my records...

You have been going through a really shy phase.  You get very overwhelmed when you are around other kids (you do fine with adults).  In the past two weeks I have seen you get much braver around other kids.  At our small group you used to sit on my lap the entire time and ask to go to the bathroom just to escape being around all of the kids.  Two weeks ago you briefly got off of my lap to grab toys and then promptly came back to sit with me.  This past week you played with the other kids the whole time!  Also at church you ran around and played happily with all of the other little kids with no concern about where Mom or Dad were.  I loved seeing you laugh and play with kids your age.

You went through a brief (though it seemed endless) stage of sleep troubles.  You did not want to be in your room by yourself, so any time that you woke up, we were up with you.  You had a lot of trouble falling asleep (it took hours on a lot of nights), and didn't sleep for very long.  You are finally coming out of that.  You had three nights where you didn't wake us at all even though we watched you put yourself back to sleep in the monitor.  Last night you did come into our room a couple of times, but I am hoping that that was just a fluke.  You go to sleep a lot easier too.  We sit in your room until you are asleep, but that only takes about 15 minutes instead of two hours. 

Your vocabulary is continuing to grow each day, and you love to learn new words.  Your annunciation has also gotten a lot better to the point where people other than me can understand you most of the time.

I would almost be so bold as to call you potty trained, and put you in underwear when we leave the house.  You stay dry almost all the time now, and even if you don't it is after you have told us that you had to go but we just couldn't find you a bathroom in time.  I am a bit nervous to make the switch to full time underwear, but I think that we will be there soon!