Well, its been over a week since we've converted Jaylen's crib to a big boy bed. Its been pretty hair pulling at times, yet nice at other times. Its been getting better each night, with a few setbacks, but I think he's getting used to his new bed. The first few nights he would get out over and over again with a little smirk on his face and we were constantly putting him back into bed. Then, he would wake up in the middle of the night because he fell out of bed. We finally put a couple big pillows on the floor below, and when we've gone to check on him, he's fallen out and asleep on the pillows at times. Aaron went to check on him and didn't see him anywhere. He finally found him asleep underneath his bed. We're constantly laughing at how and where he's sleeping in his room.
A client gave me a rail to put on the bed, and I put it on, but we're too nervous about it. I think Aaron saw something where a kid fell between the rail and his bed and suffocated, so I think we're going to go without it. Its too wobbly for us. Its sad to see him fall out of his bed, but at least the pillows are soft and he won't suffocate on them.
The best part about the big boy bed is that he gets up in the morning and crawls into bed and snuggles with us for a while in the mornings. I think when its been colder at night he wakes up more often and tries to crawl in with us, but its really cute to have our snuggle time in the morning without having to wake up to him yelling, "MOMMMMYYY!!" and having to crawl out to get him.
Here's how I found him this morning..
The second night we went to check on him and we couldn't open the door because...
Jaylen was dead asleep in front of the door. We had to push his feet over and squeeze through the door. We couldn't stop laughing and we (of course!) took some pictures. He does this quite often. He knows he needs to stay in his room, but falls asleep peeking out the bottom of the door I think. Pretty pathetic, yet pretty hilarious too!
Jaylen loved being all snuggled in our blankets after a shower with Aaron.
He comes into our room first thing in the morning for the most part, but yesterday morning Jaylen decided to throw my tennis shoes into bed before he got in to snuggle. Waking up to a shoe in my face wasn't so nice, but Jaylen is so fun to see all smiley and snugly first thing in the morning!
Just a random thing Jaylen does that I wanted to remember was whenever he gets sleepy or snugly he loves to tuck his hands in close. I don't know how to explain this one very well, but its so adorable and we really love it. He loves to have his hands nice and warm or something. You can see with the pictures above how he sleeps with his hands under him- he loves to have his hands tucked right in close when we hold him and when he's going to sleep.
The other day on our way somewhere, Jaylen says in his car seat, "Snuggle?!?" It was the most heart melting thing ever. Aaron leaned back in his seat and snuggled Jaylen the best he could in the car. We love that he's so cuddly! He's perfect for our family!
Another random story I wanted to write down: Jaylen and I were playing in his room, and I was pointing to different facial features and he was repeating them (eyes, ears, mouth, cheeks). We moved out to the front room to play Ring around the Rosies right after and after the part "we all fall down!!" I fell down and put my feet above my head. Jaylen comes over and pats my bottom and says, "Cheeks! Cheeks?" Well, yes son, those are cheeks too, but not the ones we were talking about...
