big boy bed!

Well, after the excitement of my baby learning how to climb out of his pack'n'play crib last week, it was definitely time to dig out the toddler bed. And I do mean DIG. :} It happened to be set up in the upstairs storage room....underneath a rather LARGE mountain of baby clothes, clothes the girls have outgrown, etc.! So after a minor "extreme makeover: storage room edition" (minus the hot host of the show and my future husband, Ty Pennington....), my baby is now the proud owner of his very own big boy bed!

Showing off his brand new bed after he "helped" me make it. Making beds always comes right after breakfast and right before we get dressed in the morning, so now he gets to join in the routine.

Demonstrating how he can climb onto his bed.

Ta Da! :)

Later Monday afternoon and ready for his second nap in his new bed - the first nap in it with Kiki in the house! I set up camp in the girls' room next door and watched him on the baby monitor. He got up ten times and I put him back ten times. He would just stand there with his head down, knowing I was about to come in and plop him back in bed! :) No tears though, just testing to see what the limits were.

After 30 minutes, he went to sleep. Not too bad for the first time! :)

Ok, now I have to share the rest of the story! :) Sunday afternoon was his very first nap in his new bed and Mommy and Daddy were home. Wendy knew he would get up but just left him alone for a while. Here's what she found when she went to check on him.....

Hmmm....evidence of a baby...must have opened the door and closed it again....

Nope! No baby in the bed...! (a bit of clean laundry that's been pulled off the bigger bed...)

Nope! No baby here either.... more laundry...

Aha! There's the baby!! Fast asleep in the middle of a pile of more clean laundry!! :)

So Mommy put him back in his bed where he then stayed for the rest of his nap! :)