Transition FAIL

On Friday we decided that since the new mattress arrived we would set up the new toddler bed and begin the transition of Shaun into (a) a big boy bed and (b) sharing a room with his older brother.

The Doc put the bed together and I put on the new bedding. Here are the boys checking it out.








7:30pm...time for bed...or is it?!


Shaun LOVED his newfound freedom a little too much. Our plan was to put Shaun to bed at 7:30 and then we would bring David up at his 8pm bedtime. However, Shaun never fell asleep. Once David got into his bed and we shut the door, Shaun climbed out of his bed and right into David's bed. Shaun thought it was great, he could get out of bed and play! We tried putting him back into his bed and rubbing his back so he would fall asleep, but eventually we just had to put him in his crib. The first night it was 10pm before he fell asleep. Night two, yielded the same bad results and by 9:30pm he was back in his crib.

We decided to try moving the toddler bed back into his old room, hoping that we could at least get him used to the bed without interrupting David's sleep. The first night was a SUCCESS! Tonight is the third night in his new bed I am starting to feel very optomistic that he will be transitioned before Evan arrives!!!