Big Boy Bed

So....we are a little late with everything around here.  Until last month, Alan had still been sleeping in the crib.  I wasn't in any rush to have him mobile during naps/nighttime, and he didn't seem to mind.  But since Jamesy is getting bigger every second (literally), we decided it was about time to make the switch.

I went down to visit my family in NJ for a week while Scott was away on business, and it seemed like a good time to make the transition, as Alan wouldn't be giving up sleeping in "his" crib.  I was also quite fearful of him falling off the bed as we hear him rolling around and sometimes crashing into the crib walls during the night.  So we blew up an air mattress and let him sleep on the floor, thinking this would minimize the falling.  I went in a couple of hours later to find him like this:

I put him back on the air mattress several times that night, and every night, though he eventually got better at staying on the mattress.  Luckily he is sleeping on a queen bed (that we have been using for a guest bed) at home so he has a little more rolling room.  :) And thankfully Grandma Robertson was able to borrow a guard rail and he loved sleeping in the twin bed in Oregon.  Overall, the transition has gone very smoothly.