I wasn't quite sure how it was going to go, taking apart the crib, but I did it fairly quickly and all by myself! Then came putting the toddler bed together. One of my Mom's co-workers gave us a toddler bed when Jordan was really small and I though for sure we wouldn't need it for AT LEAST a few years. Guess I was WRONG.
I could have sworn that there were 2 really long pieces to the bed, so I went searching around the house and storage shed for them and they were nowhere to be found. After 20 furious minutes and an irritated phone call to my Mother, I remembered that there were pictures of the bed on my old computer. Which my Dad had happened to leave at the house a few weeks prior. Bingo! I found the pictures and groaned to myself when I saw that I already had all the pieces. Oye. I was looking for imaginary pieces. Awesome.
I attached the headboard to the frame and realized I'd put it on the wrong way. So I removed all the screws, flipped it over and re-screwed. Then put the footboard on. Then I realized the headboard needed to be where the footboard was in order for the side bars to fit on. Unscrewed everything, reversed them, re-screwed. Finally. I put the mattress on and Jordan was hysterical with excitement. I'm so glad I don't seem to have a toddler that hates their bed. Apparently, that's pretty common, I hear.
Anyway, I rocked him to sleep and cried while I realized that my baby is a toddler now. It makes me so sad that he's just....growing up. *sigh* I guess I better post the pictures before I collapse into tears again.
The last picture of Jordan in his crib :'(
I did it all by myself! (Like everything else...)
He loves his new bed!!
Safe and sound...I sleep SO much easier knowing there's very little chance I'll wake up to head blood on the floor.
Napping in his big boy bed. And because I'm THAT kind of Mom, I took a picture of the time of his first nap and inserted it into the picture. Don't judge me. Or do. Either way, I'll have a record of the time :P
Awwww he's such a cutie!!!!
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