Toddler Bed!

Jackson has never tried crawling out of his crib so we were in no hurry to move him to a bigger bed. We have CJ's bunk beds from when he was little so we thought we would just put Jackson in those when he was ready. In our neighborhood, we have a swapping group on Facebook where people sell things and someone was selling this Cars toddler bed for $20. Total bargain! When my neighbor told me about it I called CJ and said we should buy it because Jackson LOVES Cars and I knew he would love this bed. We bought it and Jackson did love it. He just wanted to sit on it for a while. He didn't even want to play outside with his friends because he wanted to stay on his bed. It was so cute to watch him. When we brought it home all the neighbor kids were outside and saw it when we got it out of the car and followed us inside with it. That made Jackson even more excited that his friends thought his new bed was so cool. 

We moved the crib in front of the closet and put his new bed where the crib was. That first night was a success! He stayed in bed the whole night and in the morning he yelled for me when he was ready to get up. He wouldn't even get off of it until I came and got him. Awesome! The next day, he napped in it great and he continued to sleep in it with no problems. CJ and I were thinking this was the easiest transition ever!
It lasted a good three weeks. Then we went to Star Valley for my family reunion for two nights where he slept in a bed with me. When we got home, he wanted to sleep in his crib. We had moved the mattress from the crib to his bed, so we told him the mattress was on the Cars bed so he needed to sleep in his cool Cars bed! We were really trying to talk it up and get him excited about his bed again. He simply said,"Move it Mom." So we moved the mattress and he has been in the crib ever since. We left both beds in his room and got another mattress for the Cars bed. Now he can choose where he wants to sleep and I won't have to move anything around. Maybe one day he will decide his bed is cool again and want to sleep in it.