A new bed...

What do you do when your child has never attempted to crawl out of the crib? They do not even seem to know that there is an option of getting out of the crib by themselves? What do you do when that kid has turned 3 and well, you have a toddler bed in the attic...?

Everett turned 3 October 5 and the week before Thanksgiving Lee said, "Do you think we should get the toddler bed down?" My response was, "Are you kidding? He doesn't know that he can get out of that thing!"

I remembered taking 3 year old Madeleine to pick out her own sheets for the toddler bed and she seemed so much older than 3 year old Everett. I just could not imagine him picking out his own sheets like she did. So, we took a trip to the store. I figured if Everett had an opinion about his sheets, then he was old enough for the toddler bed. He was very clear that he wanted Buzz and Woody sheets. Hmph... maybe he was old enough...

So, over the Thanksgiving break we got down Madeleine's old toddler bed from the attic. Everett was so excited about his new bed. I called Goodwill to take away the crib, but they said that they would not accept it because there were so many cribs that had been recalled. So, a lovely family from freecycle now has the crib that we bought in 2004 for Madeleine when we lived in Krum (I bought it from Target on-line). Lee assembled that thing so many times (he had to disassemble it to even get it out of Everett's room!)

I told Lee that there would be no more naps now that Everett was not trapped in his crib, but he has even napped in his new bed! He still calls for us to take him to the bathroom, I keep telling him that he can get out...


happy boy!
Madeleine and Everett playing "wake up!" They scream "wake up" and jump on the bed. Taking turns of course...

My sweet knight... who is growing up so fast!