Big Boy Bed Update

So far...so okay.  It has been 3 nights of James "sleeping" in his newly converted bed and the results have been a bit lack luster.  I'm happy to report that he is finally going to bed at normal time without 45 minutes of crying.  He is, however, still waking up in the wee hours of the morning.  Today our unscheduled wake up call hit at 4:20 am.  After a quick visit to his room and lots of "it's still night night - go back to bed", he did manage to quiet down.

For 15 minutes.

Then there was screaming.  And it continued until about 6:30 am.

My friends, I think we have entered the land of Overtired Toddler.  It is a scary place and one that should be entered at your own risk.  Luckily he is still getting a decent nap at daycare and I'm hoping that once the fear excitement of the new bed wears off, we'll be back to a normal sleep schedule.

We have had some great big boy bed moments each night.  This one tugged at my heart strings a bit.

Bye Bye Crib...

...well kind of.  Take a peek at what has been happening in the Mangiaracina house:

Going...going...gone.  As in the front rail.  We decided to convert James' crib into a toddler bed to see if perhaps he'd give us what we are craving - more sleep in the morning!

Turns out, not so much.

But he was very excited to see his "new bed" as he continued to say.

Check out his reaction here:  http://youtu.be/VLVLJR7ASzU

Since these photos were taken, we actually flip flopped the front rail so that the opening was not where his head was, but you get the gist.  Night 1 (Monday night) was touch and go.  He didn't mind laying in his new bed as long as we were in the room.  That lasted about a hot second so there was a good amount of screaming but he eventually fell asleep.  There was a quick moment of dread at midnight that was squashed immediately and he lasted until about 4:57 AM.

4:57 AM!!!!!!

The sun was not even up yet and this kid was screaming like the boogey man had entered his room, did a jig and tried to steal him.  And guess what...he was up for the day!  Like "Mama-let's-read-all-3-Jingle-books-over-and-over-until-I go-to-school" up.  No me gusta hence my morning Facebook plea!  

Tonight, he was excited to see his bed again and actually wanted to read his books in it.  There was screaming as we left the room (and after I sat in there for a longer amount of time than I want to admit), but he eventually settled himself down and I am currently looking at a sleeping kid through a newly, re-plugged in monitor.  Fingers crossed that we nix the midnight call and go to at least 6:00 AM tomorrow.  

The blackout curtains and children's color alarm clock are on order with Amazon. :)