'NIGHT NIGHT' - BIG BOY STYLE

So for the past couple of weeks, Khyri has been playing the role of Houdini and escaping from his crib. At first Keith and I were surprised. You'd hear Thump... Rumble Rumble Rumble... and then he'd come busting into our room. Sad to say, we're now used to getting wake up calls in the early morning.

One recent Tuesday, I opened my eyes to see Khyri standing at the edge of my bed eating grapes and watching me sleep. To top it off, he had turned on the television - the morning news was on. Are you serious?!?! Clearly it was time to move him from his crib into a big boy bed.

The pressure was on to find a bed. I've always wanted him to have a bunk bed so we focused on finding one that would fit in our small, cramped, tiny house and could be separated into two beds if needed. I searched for about 2 weeks. I couldn't decide if we wanted a twin on top of twin or a twin on top of full.

We found what we were looking for surprisingly at Wally World aka Walmart. It was the right price and got great reviews. We had it shipped to store to save on delivery charges and got a friend to help us transport the bed to the house. We got all three boxes into the house and they sat in the hallway for awhile... I mean this is a big step - no more little Khyri...psychologically we weren't ready to put the bed together.. haahaha.  This past Sunday, Keith woke up with gusto and put together the bed -  it took all day, but it looks great!

Its a twin over full cherry wood bed. We decided to go with the full since we already had a full mattress from the guest bed that was in the room before. We didn't assemble the ladder - hopefully that will keep him off the top bunk for awhile. For now the top serves as storage - lords knows we need the extra space!



 
He seems to like the bed so far. The hardest time is nap time. He just doesn't stay in the bed until he literally falls out from exhaustion. Most of the time he's playing and roaming around the room. I've started moving things out of the room so he would have less distraction.

The lego blocks were this first toys to come OUT of the room for naptime

Night time is ok. After we do the whole routine - bath, story, brushing teeth, etc he'll calm down a bit. The past two days its taken about 4 to 5 "Khyri head down - time for night night" repeats before he finally went to sleep. Tonight, however, he is back in the crib with the special "Mosley lockdown" (due to possible Child Protective Services issues I can't share my technique hahahahhha). He decided that at 10:30pm he wanted to be wide awake AND try to slip under the gate to get free so I had to nip it in the bud.

So... this big boy bed thing is still a work in progress. The plan is to fully transition him to the bunk bed by June and then move Kielle into the room too in the crib. We've started getting her used to the crib by putting her in there for naps when Khyri is in daycare two days a week. She seems fine in there. Especially since she's found her soothing technique - her thumb!

While we transition - don't fret, Khyri will still have plenty to climb on... his new one is climbing up onto the changing table. I came in the room and found him up on top with his toys. *sigh* boys will be boys...

How did he get up there?!?!

He's growing up too fast for me. First a bunk bed, next a college dorm room... arrrgghh!