A Big Room for a Big Boy

I'm late in posting these, but it seems the room is never quite clean enough to post pictures of it, but Jaggar has had a big boy bed since right after his birthday, thanks to my parents. I can still remember when Sage got her big girl bed and how excited she was. Remember this? I thought Jaggar would be exactly the same. He seemed excited in the store when we picked it out. However, when the delivery men came, SAGE was waiting at the door...Jaggar was busy watching TV. I took him upstairs to see it...he immediately went back to his show. We've had a time of transition with it. I didn't know how to put the safety rails up when they brought it, and when he didn't fall out of bed during that first nap before Travis came home, I decided to leave them off. They become somewhat of a habit to lean up against, which seems making falling out of the bed easier than if we'd left them off. SO, I left them off for good, and as far as not falling out, he's done well.

Another issue that we had is that night times with Jaggar were still horrid ever since he went through that spell of getting up all night in Winter. We had to either rock him (Travis' option) until he fell asleep or sit in his room until he fell asleep. If he woke up and we weren't there, it started all over. It was making us all pretty miserable, and with a new baby coming, I was ready to be done with it. I thought that getting a new bed was a GREAT time to transition OUT of this. Telling him things like, "We don't rock you to sleep in your big boy bed." What did this do? Made him not like the bed. He would say, "My friends are coming to take my big boy bed." So Travis said that that was NOT the time to change anything else.

So during that time that Travis went out of town for eternity, I decided to take matters into my own hands. This always tends to work out better because 1. Travis can't handle it. 2. The kids know this and tend to act worse when he's around when change is enforced because they know he will cave. So...one night, I told Jaggar that I would be out of his room sitting outside rather than sitting in his room. OH, and another thing! He started asking, "Will you leave my door open?" I always shut it to block noise and light to prevent waking him. It has been that way his whole life. But...I left it open, and it's like a light was flipped for him. He didn't scream. He didn't get up. He didn't cry. It's like the door being shut was the entire problem for why he freaked. And he didn't even check to see if I was outside of his room (I was the first night...then I stopped). He goes to sleep like a NORMAL child now. The lights and noise that come in his room with the door open don't bother him a bit. It has revolutionized our lives. Here are a few pics of his room.

You see that he can be still for about 20 seconds.

Black bookcase, which he calls his dresser, and he LOVES to put his toys all across it.

I really like the dresser on that wall, too.

This is what he does to his bed during naps. The animals sleep above him on their own pillow. But lately, at night time, he chooses no animals or maybe one. It's so strange, but he has his very specific ways. As long as he goes to sleep, I DO NOT CARE.

This was probably the first week that he had it, and we were adjusting to naps and sleeping in it at all. He was very happy to have all of his toys in there because that's how his crib was.

Now, this is our regular result, and for that, we are grateful.