Big Bed

Here it is: Will's BIG big-boy bed! The headboard and footboard are from his crib. The footboard came off to make a toddler bed. Now the footboard comes back and assembles with new rails to make the frame of a full size bed. The frame is fairly high off the ground, so we couldn't add the boxspring that we bought with the mattress, or the bed would be ridiculously high! It's very comfortable though! Will wanted all of his animal friends (and blankets and books) in bed with him - just like when he slept on the floor. I helped wedge the row of stuffed animals in between the mattress and footboard to give him extra sleeping surface, but he still piled everything in the middle before falling asleep.

He did well for his first night. After his usual three or four trips downstairs in the first half hour, he settled in and slept until around 4:15. He cried out for me three more times over the next half hour, but then fell back asleep until a more respectable hour.