Recently...

Joel has been busy around here with all kinds of fun projects. We finally saved up enough money to get a mattress for Abigail, so she's sleeping on that now (it's on the floor for now) and we moved the crib into Eli's room. I think I mentioned that I found two matching headboards and footboards in the trash. Joel sanded one set down and bought some wood and made connector pieces today. We use those bowed-wooden slat things here for under mattresses, so he made the pieces to fit one of those, stained them to match the bed pieces and I think we'll be bringing it up to her room tomorrow. Really it's just a temporary bed for her, I'd like to get her a more "feminine" one some day, but we really needed to get Eli into the crib. She was excited!

He is getting so mobile! We still had the bassinet feature in the pak-n-play and he would rock himself in it! Somehow he ended up ripping the siding away from the bottom even! I couldn't find his binky one day and finally found it inside the bottom of the pak-n-play and wondered how it got there and then noticed thread and discovered a hole in the siding. Then that evening he was moaning in his sleep and I went up and his head was stuck in the hole which was then about 1 1/2 feet long! I got him out of bed and took the bassinet out and put the mattress in the bottom. It was just as well because he is starting to pull himself up on things now! Crazy!!So we got A's new mattress brought up the other night and we were both wondering how well she would transition, so we all were playing in her room for awhile. We left the crib in there too. She was really enjoying her mattress, walking all over it, etc. Then we asked her what should we do with her old bed since she has a new one?? She was just looking at it...so we asked if we should give it to Eli and she said, "Yeah!" So then we moved it into his room. Then Joel did story time with her, prayed with her, told her the new! sleep rules (i.e. don't get out of bed or your room!) and left the room.

Meanwhile, I was feeding Eli and putting him to bed and he cried for about an hour that night! He was so upset because of the new environment and (I'm pretty sure) frustrated that this new bed doesn't move! So I was in his room, holding him, sitting with him, looking at his "new" room with him. Finally he started reaching for his bed and batting at the sides, then trying to lean in to it. So I put him in and he played for awhile then eventually got sleepy enough and fell asleep.

We even let play around in it before bedtime!

This morning he cried for about 45 minutes before finally falling asleep...which for him, 2 minutes of crying is a lot! Once he finally got into his sleep schedule, I put him in bed, he grabs his bear/blanket and he goes to sleep. Then again tonight, he was frustrated and up on his knees trying to rock and crying! It was about 45 more minutes of trying to calm him down before he finally fell asleep. Poor little guy!

Here we thought Abigail was going to have a rough time and it was him! I didn't think he would have any problems adjusting...apparently I was way wrong!! Hopefully tomorrow will be better for him!
Joel is about to go to bed and checked on the kids. Abigail was sleeping beside the bed, with her body on the floor and her head on the mattress...I think we're going to need to do a side rail or something! : )