Cribless in Minneapolis

I don't watch soap operas (at least, anymore). I do keep up with General Hospital but that only requires watching about two episodes a year. I had this weird thought to name this post with a soap opera type name. I thought "The Beds of Our Lives", "As the Sleeping Turn", "The Young and the Rest-Less".... I couldn't decide. So, I went with a spin on a movie instead.

Last month, Ben and I were noticing that Greyson was giving lots of cues that he wanted to sleep in a "big boy bed". He would race from the bathroom after bath to Madelyn's bed and lay down (naked, of course). He would sit on Madelyn's bed for 15 minutes at a time to just flip through books. When I put a pillow in his crib, he was ecstatic!! So, first I took one of the siderails of Greyson's crib off to see how well he would do staying in bed. He did REALLY well staying in bed, except that because it is so narrow he fell out a couple of times.


Then, we saw some pretty good deals on beds in the Labor Day circulars. So, we spent part of Ben's day off going out and finding a Labor Day deal on a twin bed and setting it up for Greyson in his room! He had so much fun trying them out in the store, watching us shoving them inside our van, moving them to his room, and then putting sheets on! He could wait to sleep on them! Actually first, he couldn't wait to JUMP on them!!

At first Greyson was doing a great job of going right to sleep when we put him to bed. However, now we are having to fight two different battles. 1. Staying in bed and going to sleep. It has been about two weeks of putting him back in bed consistently and it still isn't getting better. He is like a stubborn mule! (Where did he get that trait from? Mom AND Dad maybe?) 2. Getting up way too early and coming out of his room! Okay, some may not think that 6:15am isn't "way too early" but in my house we don't roll out of bed until at least 7:30am! He is in the process of learning that he has to stay in his room and play until then.

And our other bed change in our house:
If you remember back to shortly after Madelyn's 2nd birthday, you'll remember that she gave up her crib for a "big girl bed". Since then, she has been sleeping with her box spring and mattress on the floor to make it easier for her to get into bed and if she were to fall out (and she did a few times), it wouldn't be far to the floor. Well, Ben and I decided that on the day she turned four, she was old enough to move everything up onto a bedframe. She was so excited about this change and it made her feel so big to have a "really big bed"!

Sidenote: Yes, that IS Ben with shorts, a white tshirt, and BLACK socks!