full circle

ethan's crib has made it full circle. i remember putting it together for him and setting it up in the months before he was born. i loved setting it up with his adorable star bedding and mobiles and fuzzy sheets. who knew he would love his crib so much! he has always slept so well in it, but we knew one day he would have to move to a bed...though i personally would have kept him in his crib til he was in school if he slept! we bought a bed for him a while back when he had his first climbing episode and after first one was broken, we finally received a new one and got it set up. i think lance and ethan were completely ready for this transition. i, on the other hand, was not at all! he is currently down for his nap - after about 2 hours of playing in his room doing god knows what - we didn't open the door for fear that he would think naptime was up. i am very tempted to look in, but don't want to test fate. all is quiet in the house and that is a good thing when it is naptime. i am not sure how he will do at night time and i am sure over the course of the next several months (years - maybe!) we'll have our issues with the bed, but at least he took to it today without much fanfair. lance read him chicka, chicka, boom, boom, his current FAVORITE book and had him turn on his machines (noise maker and humidifier) and he hopped into bed himself. we decided lance will put him down for the next few nights, though i'll have to handle naps, in hopes that it will keep the transition smooth. uggh, it is hard to believe my little guy is big enough for a bed now!

anyway, his crib has now been full circle and lance and i brought it back down to miles room where it first started out over 2 years ago. we raised it up, put back that adorable rainforest mobile and miles took his first nap in it this weekend. he has also adjusted well to a bigger crib and hopefully it will make for more sleeping in the future! if only his older brother could teach him a few things about sleeping!

here are a few pictures of ethan and his new big boy bed! the first one is how we found him after his first nap in it - he was actually sleeping while standing up...on his tiptoes! the other two are how i found him monday morning when i went to wake him up at 8:45am. yes, he is definitely doing well in the bed and though i am not going to admit lance was right about transitioning him, i will say it has gone a million times better than i would have ever thought!