Big Boy Bed

Towards the end of April, we took the front off of Henry’s crib. I still have not decided if this a good thing or not, but I’m starting to lean towards it being good. We did this for a couple of reasons.



Reason #1
Henry is not the type to happily wake up in his bed and play or even let us know he is awake. It does not matter if it is night time or nap time. If he wakes up in his crib and no one happens to be there in the room with him, he gets ticked! He just screams this heartbroken, abandoned scream until someone comes to rescue him. When you do finally rescue him from his terrible prison, he cuddles in until I guess he feels like he is loved again. I like that part, but not enough to torture him on purpose, so the crib railing is no more.


Reason #2
He likes to end the night/start the day in our bed. We thought that if he can get himself out of bed and come to us, we’d have to wake up less for the process. That part has worked. Now, instead of screaming Henry needing to be rescued, we have cute Henry dragging his favorite blanket and monkey into our room then standing on the floor by our tower height bed going “eh, eh, eh” ‘til we lift him up. This is happening later and later most mornings, so that’s good. A lot of mornings he doesn’t come to our bed until just after 5 and I have to get up shortly thereafter anyways, so it was cute. Henry hugs is a nice way to start the morning.

**Note his Care Bear blanket and pillow. He actually has two Care Bear blankets, but this one recently got dragged through the mud, so it is in the laundry. His Care Bear blankets (both, which were mine when I was little) and his monkey are his favorite things. When he comes to our bed every morning he has to bring all three things with him. He will bring in two or three of the three, go back for whatever he left behind, shut his door, then he will reach up to us. The pillow (also mine when I was little) frequently makes its way to our bed too even though he RARELY sleeps on it in either bed.