Big Boy

Dax's new room has been a work-in-progress for weeks and the rain this weekend motivated us to spend a chunk of time to finish cleaning it out and bringing his stuff in. He loved helping get everything into place, but did not love the drilling we had to do to hang some of his things.

We still have a few finishing touches, but it was close enough that we let Dax test it out. Take a peek:

He was SO excited to spend the night in his new bed.

One of the best parts of being out of the crib is that he can access his own water and he was THRILLED about that.

My personal favorite part is being able to snuggle in with him to read bedtime stories and comfort him when he wakes up.

And after a few giggles, a story and lots of kisses and snuggles, he was in for the night.

He took a little time to arrange his bed, talk to his baseball bear about his new room,and take several drinks. A few minutes in he dropped his water on the floor and immediately burst into tears giving both Jake and I a mini-panic attack thinking he himself had fallen out, but that was easily resolved and he did eventually close those sweet eyes and go to sleep. I spent the majority of our awake time after he was in bed watching the monitor. Then, after going to bed ourselves, I spent the rest of the night acutely aware of every peep and squirm, and especially tense due to the thunder. Thankfully, he slept through the weather, rolled around enough to get comfortable, but not so much that he ended up on the floor, and called to us when he was awake like we told him to do rather than getting out of bed himself. One successful night down!

Nap today caused significantly less anxiety for us and he was still just as excited to be in his new room. We are equally sad that he's growing up so fast and excited for this new adventure with our little boy.