Goodbye Crib!

Neither Carter nor Rylan has EVER tried climbing out of their crib.  But since Rylan is 3 years and 4 months old, I decided it was time to give him some freedom.  He's never asked for a bed and was fine in his crib, but he's getting way too big for the playyard we use for traveling, and we need to get him used to a bed for future trips!

Plus, on Friday, the boys were playing in Rylan's room in the morning and Brian went to say good-bye to them before work and found Rylan in his crib!!!  Apparently Carter had turned over a toy bin for Rylan to step on and them helped him over the rail into the crib.  So even though I'd been meaning to covert the crib to a toddler bed for a few weeks, that pushed us to finally do it yesterday.

Rylan took his first nap in the toddler bed yesterday.

And it was successful!  I heard him get out of the bed a couple of times to get toys and it took him a little longer to fall asleep (about 30 minutes), but he did it (and didn't fall out)!  And when he woke up, he called for us over the monitor (Carter still never gets out of his bed in the morning until we come into his room).

Last night went great too.  Rylan fell asleep right away and slept until his normal way-too-early-wakeup-time.  When his clock turned green (more on that in another post), he called for me to come get him.

Rylan's currently taking a nap now.  This time it only took him 10 minutes to fall asleep.

Rylan has told us he's a bigger boy now :)  He's proud to be out of his crib even though he didn't seem to care until now.  Next step ... potty training!  He has no interest at all in that either!