musical beds

this weekend was a pretty special one for the baby book... ethan graduated to a big boy bed! (well, at least a big boy mattress on the floor till we can get the bed frame from my dad's storage unit.) we'd recently been talking about moving ethan out of his crib soon because caroline was beginning to outgrow the cradle, and i guess our little girl overheard our conversation and got quite excited about this upcoming move! when i went in her room saturday morning, this is what i found...


yep. she had wriggled and scooted so much that she knocked the pin loose that keeps the cradle from rocking! she was FAR from falling out, but the wonky cradle still made my heart skip a little beat! that was the last nap for her in there!!

right before ethan's afternoon nap, i realized that this would be his last nap in his crib. apparently, i'm supposed to be excited about these big boy milestones... hopefully i'll get better at this. but at this point, i just get nostalgic... and i go to my default mode, which is to break out the camera. :) ha. here's the last picture of ethan's room before moving the crib out... he's saying, "peace to da brothas in the crib". :)


i laugh because i thought i'd take a sweet picture of him waking up in his crib for the last time... we were out in the garage when he woke up, and although i had the kitchen door open to listen for him, i apparently didn't hear him wake up. i guess he was fed up with waiting on me to get him out. here's our "big boy" (ha) in his crib for the last time.... (rest assured, he's had a hair cut this week!!)


saturday was a busy day... picking out a rail and sheets for ethan's bed, trying to get the crib through his bedroom door, taking off the door to fit the crib through, taking apart the crib because it still wouldn't fit... it was just about bedtime by the time we got ethan's bed all set up and little miss princess' crib in her room. we talked up the big boy bed thing all day and let him play in his room and watch us set up his bed. he laid right down and went to sleep with no problems! the next morning he woke up uncharacteristically early, but he stayed in his bed until i came in! here's our big boy....

"yay for my big boy bed!"

since the first uneventful night, we've had some challenges that come with this transition, but overall, he's done wonderfully. caroline is enjoying her BIG crib where there is plenty of room for her scooting adventures. i need to take some pictures of her in her crib soon...

sweet dreams!