New Month, New Milestones

My child is a little weird about certain things in life…like for example…he likes Veggie Straws, Bold Chex Mix and Pop chips…but ONLY if he sees you take them out of the original bag. Putting them in a ziplock baggy for his lunch is a no-go.  He’s an EXTREMELY picky eater so we are always catering to whatever this child will eat!!  Another one of his quirks is the fact that he sleeps in his own room (Thank you Martha for training my child) in a pack-n-play that is NEXT to his crib!?!? Yeah weird…I don’t know. But since his sleeps from 7-7:30pm until 7am…I don’t mess with it.  The other night as I was laying him down for the night I noticed that his legs/body is getting too long and he can’t even straighten his legs….oh dear…do I have to admit my little baby is officially outgrowing his “bed”??  I was sad…BUT thought well he’s almost 2 and a half…now's the time to get the big boy bed rockin’.   So we went to Target and let him pick his toddler size bedding for his new bed. He was so excited. Then yesterday while he was at Martha’s and before I left for jury duty I got his room ready for him.

So his sleeping arrangements went from this…

To this…

Literally over night!!!

I wanted to keep the crib there and bed in the same place until I know he’s comfortable with this change. Next thing to go will be that crib and we can save it for the next baby someday (Thanks Paterson Family). And yes that’s a TV tray next to his bed…that’s where we keep an extra do-do (pacifier), a book, and my old cell phone…that was there for the weekend mornings when he’d wake up and kinda hang out in his pack-n-play before we’d come get him. This weekend should be interesting…will he get himself out of bed before we are awake…or yell for us from his bed??? Who knows!

This evening Owen was soooo excited to go look at his Cars bed after dinner…He went upstairs all by himself just for a look. I had to drag him out of it for a bath…but he hopped back in it after bath & jammies…he was just so excited to go to sleep (which I couldn’t let him go yet..its only 6:30pm).  So we read some books…watched some Team Umizoomi…THEN he’ll go back to his “Big boy bed” for the night.

In his own room…in his own “real” bed….my gosh…my baby is growing up!! Which by the way he won’t let me call him anymore…if I say “I love you baby” he says “I’m not a baby, I’m a big boy!”  Oh gosh…I didn’t want this day to come…I told him he’ll be my Baby Forever whether he likes it or not.  heehee