I have so many mixed emotions about this big switch from a crib to a toddler bed. Cooper has been an excellent sleeper - he sleeps like 12 hours a night! We have been pretty spoiled, I guess. One weekend (when I was in Tahoe for the family girls trip) Chad was staying in Stockton with my dad - during nap time, Cooper found away to climb out of his pack and play...Chad said he did it over and over again - he ended up taking his nap in Papa's arms (probably was a sneaky plan Coop already had in mind). Anyways - we got home that night and put him to bed like normal and he climbed out of his crib at home. We were doomed! He ended up going to sleep that night in his crib and I thought everything would be back to normal - and it was - but only for a week. Cooper began climbing out during naps all the time. One Saturday afternoon, we did not even hear Cooper climb out and like an hour later we went to check on him in his crib and he was sleeping in our bed! Wow! Then, it was not just naps, this little boy was now climbing out at night - right when we put him down to go to sleep. He began asking to sleep on the floor - I tried putting his mattress on the floor for a couple days - that didn't work great, although, it was better than having him climb out and possibly fall and hurt himself. So here we were stuck - not wanting our little boy to grow up so fast - could taking down his crib and making it into a toddler bed mean he is no longer a baby?! NOOO!!! I love my little BABY...and he is growing right before my eyes...but then I think, WOW! How exciting! Cooper is growing up, becoming independent and will even have a big boy bed. So last Monday night Chad did the work needed to be done and took off one side of the crib and put the toddler rail up. Here it was: Coop's "big boy" bed!
We kept our bedtime routine the same - hoping Cooper would go right to sleep and continue sleeping 12 hours a night like this new bed was nothing new...haha...we are still working on this transition. Sometimes he will go to sleep okay - but then wake up in the middle of the night. Other nights he cries and doesn't want to go to sleep. A couple nights he has slept on his floor (that makes me feel like I am torturing him when I see that) and ONE night in the past 7 days, he has slept his normal 12 hours in his big boy, toddler bed!
Kisses "ni nite" in front of the "big boy" bed. Cooper taps his chest with his hand and says "my bed mama, my bed!" I think to myself "yes, Cooper, your bed...sleep in it, all night PLEASE!"
When I am done reading him books before bed, he often enjoys taking a book to bed to read himself to sleep. It's so cute! "Ni nite Coopie!"
We kept our bedtime routine the same - hoping Cooper would go right to sleep and continue sleeping 12 hours a night like this new bed was nothing new...haha...we are still working on this transition. Sometimes he will go to sleep okay - but then wake up in the middle of the night. Other nights he cries and doesn't want to go to sleep. A couple nights he has slept on his floor (that makes me feel like I am torturing him when I see that) and ONE night in the past 7 days, he has slept his normal 12 hours in his big boy, toddler bed!
Kisses "ni nite" in front of the "big boy" bed. Cooper taps his chest with his hand and says "my bed mama, my bed!" I think to myself "yes, Cooper, your bed...sleep in it, all night PLEASE!"
When I am done reading him books before bed, he often enjoys taking a book to bed to read himself to sleep. It's so cute! "Ni nite Coopie!"
A close up of our handsome big boy!
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Hi Melanie - Cooper is seriously so cute. Tyler's little boy Max just graduated to a big bed too...I got to be there for the big event, since i brought the bed! - it was so much fun....
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