Time for the toddler bed!

We decided to make Tyler's 2nd birthday the day we would make the switch from baby to boy, criminal to freedom...crib to toddler bed. I knew this day would eventually come, but so soon? Do I have to face the reality already? I've known for awhile that he wasn't a baby anymore but in my eyes he still was until I saw him sleeping peacefully like any grown kid in his big boy bed. When you see your baby doing something "adult-like" for the first time something inside you changes. I don't really know how to describe it other than all of a sudden, in that moment, you realize life from this point on is going to be different and whether you like it or not it's changing- with or without you-and and all you can do is hang on tight. How many times in his life am I going to have to re-learn this lesson? Sigh...anyway enough with the nostalgia.

Thankfully when my parents bought us the crib for Christmas a couple years ago they decided to go with the 3 in 1 (crib, toddler bed, full bed) so we could get the most use out of it. Tyler has never tried to crawl out of his crib so if we didn't have another baby that needed it, I would probably leave him in it for awhile longer. But that's not the case and since she'll be needing it here within the next month or two (because she'll outgrow the bassinett) we thought it best to put Tyler in his crib AS a toddler bed now so he's used to sleeping in a bed before we kick him out and put him in a different bed altogether. My hope is that the transition from crib to bed will be much smoother for him if he has a couple months to get use to sleeping in a toddler bed that he's still familiar with before he has to move to a toddler bed that is really a toddler bed. Does that make sense? Anyway, so far so good. It's been about a week and he hasn't gotten out of his bed during the night, in the morning or after his nap-with one exception. The other morning he woke up at 6:15 (he normally wakes up around 8:30) and was knocking on his bedroom door (we leave it closed in case Kylee cries during the night). Bobby just walked in and told him it was still night time and he needed to go back to sleep, put him in bed, sang him a song and walked out, and Tyler didn't wake back up till his usual time. So, I'm pretty happy with the results and just hope it lasts!

I think this overload of pictures proves that this was a big deal for me!

After his nap I wanted to get a picture of his last time sleeping in the crib so I told him to pretend like he was sleeping. Nice Tyler...




After dinner we started to take it down. Tyler's untying the bumper pad.


Yea-I'm, free!


He liked helping daddy use the tools to take it apart and put on the side rails.


Kylee and I were just hanging out and taking pictures...pose!


And pose...


And pose!


Her cute socks from Maranda that just happen to match her outfit perfectly!




Tyler got bored after awhile and just wanted to play with his cars... (yes that's a santa hat on his shirt, he was wearing it under a tee shirt before his nap)


...And stop Daddy from putting on his sheet.


Then he decided to help.


Ta Da!


Ah, so comfy!


All done and ready to go!


Right now his family currently consist of Minnie mouse, Elmo and his bear. He loves to put them in his bed on his pillow to go to sleep and will tell me, "mom, be quiet family sleeping." He sure does love his "family".


His awesome spider man pajamas that we found on clearance for $5.99 at Sears to match his sheets!


Wow, what's with the 'come hither' pose Tyler?


Good night, sleep tight!


Next big boy phase? Potty Training. Let's just hold off on that for awhile-I'm all about baby steps.