Big Boy Bed

Saturday morning as the wind and snow began to blow outside, my Brown Eyed Girl rose before the sun - as she does every morning. I drug my exhausted body out of bed, turned on Mickey Mouse, set her up with a blanket, half a Pop Tart and glass of milk before slinking back to my warm and cozy bed, determined to sleep in. An hour later, my Brown Eyed Girl exclaimed that her stomach was "starving inside" and roused me for something a little more substantial than a Pop Tart. I told her I needed to get up, feed horses and wake Mr Blue Eyes up anyways.

With little expression, she mentioned that Mr Blue Eyes was already up AND watching Mickey.

Come again?

Sure enough our little buddy was up, wide awake and NOT in his crib. Mr Blue Eyes had took the liberty to scale the crib side to greet the day.

A rosy tummy and chin left the evidence that his decent from the crib was not as graceful as he'd probably anticipated. Lord knows all I needed was a split lip, cracked skull, or worse...

A fresh pot of coffee and I was ready to transform his crib into the toddler set up. Although I wish we could hold this day off a little longer, I would rather deal with a child popping out of bed in the middle of the night than a late night trip to the ER. 

I found the box containing the toddler front to the crib high in the rafters of the garage. Finally found a ladder. And after about five minutes and 1254653 choice words was able to wrestle the box from the rafters.

Did I mention Handy Man was on a business trip last weekend?

So long all traces of my wee little boy.

I totally got this!

One more reassuring example of the necessity of this transformation. 

Why can't they just stay babes forever?

Of course learn to use the toilet and feed themselves... but just stay little forever.

Mommy is Super Woman with a few bolts and an Alan Wrench!

Introducing... Purple Princess THE Tangled AKA Cheese Ball Ham AKA our resident toddler bed use instructor.

Successful climb in.

Lots of cheese and ham.

Masterful climb out. 

Ta-Da!

Woops a little London and France in the background...

Someone was really excited and it wasn't even her bed! I had to remind them about the monkeys jumping on the bed song.

Lord help me. I'm in for it with this one!