Big Boy Bed

Miles is finally in a big boy bed. Today his Uncle Bryan came over and helped us convert his crib to a toddler bed. Which basically involves taking one side of the crib railing off and putting a mattress support in its place. It's kind of like a little day bed now. Anyway, I had lost some of the hardware to make the change, so he was able to fix it for us without the parts. We had it all put together for nap time today, so when it was time for Miles to go down, I had him crawl into the bed on his own. Of Course the obvious happened. Miles ran right out of his room and headed for Uncle Bryan in the family room. On the second attempt, Uncle Bryan brought him into bed and as Miles went to get up and leave again, we beat him out and I closed and locked the door. Miles cried at the door for about 10 minutes and then went to play with the toys he had in his room. We could hear him playing for about 20 more minutes and then it got quiet. I went to check and he had crawled into bed and was sound asleep. It was too precious! He's such a big boy now.

We are starting this process because his birthday present from us will be a fire engine bed for his second birthday in a month and a half. So before we go through all the trouble of buying it and setting it up we want to see if getting him to sleep in a toddler bed is even doable yet. When it was time for him to get up from his nap, I opened his door and a few minutes later a smiling, sleepy eyed, little boy came wandering around the corner and crawled into my lap. I am happy he still thinks he's my little baby.