I’ve been making good progress on changing around A’s room. This past weekend the mattress arrived for his big huge boy bed. I was a bit apprehensive about how he would take to this new bed considering when we switched him to the toddler bed his sleeping habits did a 180. There was no way to slowly transition to this one, we kind of had to go cold turkey. The mattress was arriving very early on Saturday, so Friday night we did the conversion of his toddler bed to the full size frame and allowed him to sleep in our room for the night (a treat!).
Let me say, these convertible cribs are not very easy to convert. Going from the crib to the toddler bed was easy…just remove the front of the crib and viola, toddler bed. But going to the full size frame was a much harder feat. After a couple hours and a lot of frustration we finally had it.
Add the mattress + bedding and we were ready for the reveal. A was thrilled to say the least! There was lots of bouncing on the bed in celebration and the Buzz Lightyear pillow became an instant BFF.
When bedtime came I wasn’t sure what to expect. As much as A loved his new bed when we introduced him to it I was pretty sure that would all change when the lights went out….and I was right. He was scared that the rails we put up on the sides would fall down and that he would fall out of the bed and was also scared of being alone. Who could blame him?! It was a huge new big bed, high off of the ground and pretty intimidating. Considering it all though, he did really well his first few nights. The first night I spent a few extra minutes sitting with him after we read books and he only woke up a couple times during the night. By night #3 he only woke up once…a huge improvement from a couple weeks ago. The only drawback so far, is that while he’s sleeping more soundly through the night he’s regressed to his 5:30 wake up time....
We’ll have to work on that part ;)
