Big Boy Bed....

Well... we've done it! We are officially a one crib family again. Jacob is sleeping in a "big boy bed" as they are called at our house! He helped Daddy put his new bed together last week... apparently flashlights double as tools! And don't ask about the princess flashlight in a house of all boys... it's a very long story involving maui, power outages, and walmart's short supply of flashlights!

and then Daddy showed Jake how fun it is to play under the bed (hmmm... will we regret this?)... :)

Jake tested out the new bed's "jumpability" - it passed!

We left the bed up for a few days (without using it).... and we made a big deal about buying his new bedding (or "covers" as he calls them). After our weekend away we decided to go for it! On Monday he took his nap in the bed and did awesome! He had a hard time sorting out the covers... he has never even had a blankie in his crib (I have always used sleepsacks and well, let's face it, I am super paranoid!), so this was all new to him! He finally sorted it out and drifted off to sleep! We praised him when we got up and asked if he was ready to take down the crib... He was.

So after one last jump session, he and Daddy took it down.

As I tucked him in that night I kept thinking what a big boy Jacob has become... wow, how time flies by. It is hard for me to believe he'll be 2 in just a couple of weeks.

Maybe that explains why I love how small he looks in his BIG bed!

oh and by the way... the transition is going pretty well. He's yet to get out of bed (everyone says that happens after a few weeks and the real transition happens!!). It takes him longer to fall asleep and we've had to go up a couple of times each night to help him with his covers.

So far so good...