Growing in Leaps

The little sucker tried to jump out of his crib last night. He came pretty close. I've been putting a regular sized pillow in his bed along with his "pillow" blanket (a down filled snuggly blanket of which he so affectionately refers to as his "pillow"... he LOVES soft things). Anyway he was standing on the REAL pillow after we were punishing him by putting him in timeout in his bed for kicking Rudy, and he decided to use it as a stepping stone - the meaning goes two ways. First, his step up to leap over the edge (of which hubby caught him), and second, confirming my suspicions that "its time" to graduate him to a big boy bed. Believe it or not, I bought him new bedding yesterday for that day when this would happen - and I didn't think it would be the same day.

We didn't move him out of his crib last night though. The bed he's moving into next is upstairs and I didn't have the strength to help move it down. Plus I needed to wash the bedding first before he could use it. So instead, I removed the pillow from his bed, and put three couch cushions at the foot of the crib in the case that he decided to pile up a few stuffed animals as step stools to catapult his little body over the rail. Thankfully, he was tired when he finally went down that he didn't attempt such circus acrobatics. But I'm sure the day will come soon....

For goodness sake, he JUST turned 2. He needs to relax a little. Baby Girl won't be here until April, and I was hoping that we could do the bed graduation ceremony around then. Good thing I bought bed rails yesterday too because I don't think he'll wait that long. I'm not ready to fight the "GET YOUR LITTLE BUTT BACK IN BED" battle that is inevitably right around the corner.