Toddler Bed Part One

The next phase in Byron's life has finally arrived - bye bye crib, hello big boy bed!  This is a developmental phase but also a necessity.  I leaned on his crib railing one too many times and it snapped in the middle.

Byron is two and a half.  The timing is right to convert the incredible three way convertible crib to it's next stage.  A couple of days ago we began to look for the stored old parts.  The problem was, we couldn't find the toddler side guards that came with the crib.  So we simply removed the broken side and voila - a toddler bed!

Off Byron went to his converted bed, completely nonplussed.  (Jeapordy theme music here) This is what I found the next morning at 7:00 am.

Bob and I asked him when he woke up if he had fallen out, and he told us that he had.  We think it's more likely that he just discovered that he could get out of the bed in the middle of the night, and then didn't bother to get back in.  Climbing is not his specialty after all, and this crib at it's lowest setting is pretty high off the ground.






HMM...  I got on Craig's list and found a listing for a nice toddler bed with side guards in Syracuse.  We went up this morning, got the bed, had a nice brunch, took a much needed side trip to Babies'r'us - home by 1 o'clock.  It's 8 o'clock pm now and so far so good.  Byron seems to like the new bed and can climb in and out of it easily.  I put him to bed at 7:00 and so far he hasn't opened the door and walked out so maybe we're on our way!