Big Kid Beds

I've debated about ending my blogging days since our family is now a forever family. After all, the reason for starting the blog was to keep family and friends informed of our adoption journey. I have changed my mind, although my updates will no longer be about where we are in the adoption process, they will now be about where we are at in the parenting/growing toddler stage.

My kids have been in cribs much longer than other kids their age. In fact, I've been wondering if I was waiting too long but they never tried to climb out and actually seemed to enjoy being in their cribs when it was nap or bedtime. Hearing other parent's horror stories of kids not staying in their room for bedtime and waking them up at 4am; I decided to stay in my crib-bliss home for as long as possible.

About a month ago, Jaycee showed me that she could indeed climb out of her crib. I stopped her before she got out but that started the conversation of when we should make the switch. We are in the process of purchasing a new home so I debated about waiting until we moved but a couple days later Jaycee woke up screaming "I have to go potty!". At that point, Jon and I decided it was time. We didn't want to be woke up every single time she needed to go to the bathroom. That also happened to be the week of our 4 year anniversary and we had scheduled a babysitter for Saturday. We decided the transition would occur on Sunday so the babysitter wasn't subjected to trying to keep them in their beds.

As everything in life goes....our transition date was 1 day too late. At naptime on Saturday the kids were being destructive in their room but as long as they stayed in there, I was fine...until I heard a loud THUD and then nothing. I ran into their room and Jaxson was on the ground, his face was bright red, and he was about to scream but still trying to catch his breath from the fall. I picked him up and rocked him until he calmed down a bit then I assessed him for damages. A large knot was forming on his head so we got some ice. For as awful as it seemed in the moment, it was almost gone the next day.

Sunday was Easter and we made the transition to big kid beds and my plan worked like a charm! I figured between Easter baskets in the morning, Easter egg hunts at my parents house, lunch, then Easter egg hunts at Jon's brother's house, then dinner - they'd be too exhausted to realize they could run around their rooms instead of sleep! 

Easter with Aunt Lisa

After all the festivities we put them in their respective beds, they went right to sleep but in the morning we found them like this:

 And every night since then they both climb into Jaxson's bed and go to sleep together. Melts my heart every single time.