We have been discussing when to turn Miss M's crib into the toddler day bed. We really wanted to wait until she was about two and a half, don't ask why, that just seemed like a logical age. With my surgery coming up, don't know when, but it will happen eventually, we had discussed possibly changing her bed that first week after my surgery while daddy is home taking care of her and mommy is recouping. (In a WLS book we read that I won't be able to pick up anything heavy for 4 to 6 weeks. Having her bed as a toddler bed would eliminate me having to pick her up out of bed.)
Today she did something that may change all of that! At just four days shy of being twenty-two months old she took a flying leap out of the crib. Since I wasn't there when it happened I can not attest to the fact that it was indeed a flying leap, but I can imagine.
Very tired Miss M was upstairs in her crib protesting the fact that Mama had put her down for a nap. All of a sudden I hear a loud thump and then a blood curdling scream. Running upstairs as fast as my legs would take me I noticed that she only screamed once, but I could tell that she was doing one of those silent screams just building up until she HAD to take a breath. About the time I made it to her door she took that breath and was screaming once more.
Opening her door I found my pantless, (thank goodness she is wearing a onesie or the diaper would have been gone as well) sockless, red faced, screaming toddler standing on the floor. Scooping her up in my arms I immediately began looking for blood, cuts, or bruises. Finding none I sat down in the rocker and began to soothe her. Wrapping her up in a blanket crocheted for her by her "gamma" (that would be Hero's mom), I rocked her, kissed her, and began to sing her favorite primary song, "I Am a Child of God." Before the second verse was over she was asleep.
My poor Miss M, I am certain she was after the binky she had thrown out of the crib. (Argh...the binky, that is a post for another day) Is it naive of me to think that this tumble will prevent her from doing it again until I am ready to convert her bed....sometime around her eighteenth birthday? Probably so.....
When did you put your toddler into a toddler or big kid bed? How did you handle them getting up to play instead of sleeping? Did they have a hard time adjusting? Did you?
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my kids went into toddler beds one of two times...when either they were climbing out of their cribs and I feared they get hurt, or another baby was on the scene who needed the crib more.
It took two gates on top of each other to keep Miss Candace in her room...she's always been a willful one.
The other three seemed to pretty much stay in bed and if they did get up to play they fell asleep playing. I got a night light and shut the door and yes I think I had a harder time adjusting to them being in big kid beds than they did.
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