And so it begins....

...the transition of two children!

Well this weekend we have started taking the steps of having two little ones in the house! Aidan was officially moved to his BIG BOY bed on Thursday night, and, for the most part has adjusted to it well. He's a little difficult to get down, one extra visit from Mommy usually does the trick. And he's slept through the night and not tried to get out of the bed either! We actually haven't shown him how to get up into the bed, and he's never seen the rails down, so for all intents and purposes, he still "thinks" it's like a crib. We'll see what happens when he "explores" the bottom end!!

We got him all new stuff from Target; headboard, dresser, bookshelf, and night stand. It's kinda cheapie stuff, but for a toddler who'll probably color/scratch/etc. all over it, it's probably best we didn't get him top of the line Pottery Barn Kids-level stuff. I found a Mattress Outlet place (they only accept customers by appointment and it's in a warehouse clear out in the middle of the countryside north of here), that cut us a good deal on an OK mattress and box spring ($75 bucks!), Emmy will say that it is one step above sleeping on the floor quality mattress. But as I saw it, this is the "pee" mattress, so why would we get something crazy nice. I put a good mattress pad and also an old down bed topper we had, so actually it's pretty comfy! One area we did splurge on (it cost more than the bed!), was the duvet. It's hard trying to find little boys bedding that isn't marred with Transformers/Cars/Thomas the Train/Pokemon/etc. And Aunt Dawna had gotten us a great quilt, however it was a full, and for space reasons we wanted to keep Aid in a twin...maybe in the next house we can get him some more space! Anyways, Mommy found a great site called Land of Nod, which is Crate and Barrel's kids store, and we found his comforter. I really like it and it goes awesome with his "Stars" sheets from Target, too! -

Well, enough talk about it...let's see Aidan's new BIG BOY room!

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The headboard has a bookshelf built in, which is perfect for Aidan to pick out and read whatever books he wants as he drifts off to sleep....and in the second picture you'll see that we've brought the table and chairs in, so Aid can color and do whatever in his space.

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That bookshelf surely has a lot of books!

I still think it is so great how much he likes books. His Raspberry teacher, Beth, told Emmy the other day that occaisionally things get a little crazy in the room (duh, 8 2-year olds will do that!). Aidan, who has never been a fan of crazy, has on many occaisions grabbed a book and headed over to the bean bag area and quietly read, while the rest of the room is in chaos! How awesome is that?!

Here he is reading with Mommy and by himself in the Big Boy Bed!

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Ultimately though...this is what we love to see (even if he's not aligned straight with the bed!!)

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Pure Peace.

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Have a wonderful night everyone!

Ty, Emmy, Ethan and BIG BOY Aidan!!!