The Adventures of Caeden's new bed

On the 8th of March we decided to put Caeden in his "big boy bed." We had tried this back in Jan with his new bunk bed and needless to say Mike ended up putting the crib back together at 11:30 at night because he would not sleep in the bed.

Well then we got the idea to take the bunk beds apart. We went a couple days before and got Caeden some "special" toys he could bring in his new bed. Mike took the crib apart and we explained to Caeden that his crib was broken and it was time to sleep in his big boy bed.

The first couple of nights did not go so well. He had already figured out how to undo the plastic door lock we put on. After following Super Nanny's guidelines for 45 min I decided to lay down next to him until he fell asleep.

The next day he would not nap and I began to think, what have we done? That night after doing the same routine as the night before Mike just sat next to him until he finally crashed.

I can now proudly say that he doesn't need us in the room to fall asleep (but we still have to be in the loft) and we did not give in and put the crib back together!!! Yeah to us!

Here I thought he was going to be the first college student to go away to school and still not sleeping in a "big boy bed."

Mike's comment on the whole thing was, I don't care if this next baby is 10 we are not pushing him out of the crib and into a bed.