Another sad day for a mother. My baby is no longer in his baby bed and has moved onto a mattress on the floor. Griffin has been climbing well before he crawled or walked. It is truly amazing that he stayed in his baby bed for 2 years and 7 months. We have been waiting for him to take the plunge. In anticipation of it we even had something on the floor as a crash pad. He always put a leg up to the rail, but never gave it the little bit of "umph" that is need to go overboard. We thought about moving him months ago, but with a new baby in the house there just never seemed to be the right time. We also secretly liked him "caged." Sorry folks, but it is a great feeling to know exactly where your child is! We were as scared to death of what he would do without the rails. Would he wander around the house while we slept, would he go in and wake up his brother, would he sneak out and go joy riding in the car? Who knows with this guy?!?
Griffin was always a great sleeper. As a baby we would just put him in his bed for naps and he would play and eventually just fall asleep. He has been sleeping solidly through the night for a LONG time. It was just such a beautiful thing that we didn't want to mess with. About a week ago all of this came to a crashing halt. All of a sudden it was nearly impossibly to get him to nap and an ordeal to get him to sleep at night. Because of this we decided to give a mattress on the floor a try. His sleeping issues are getting much better. I guess he was just ready to ditch the rails and didn't exactly how to break the news to his folks.
Tomorrow Kenton will move Griffin's crib to Roman's room and hope that some of the good sleep mojo wears off on the little guy. A mother can dream..... right?
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