Crib is Out
It has been a sad day for this mommy. My baby has moved from the crib to a bed. Excuse me while I take a moment to reflect the squishy baby-ness that is lost. I think I need a moment of silence. And maybe some chocolate.
It was unplanned….kind of like him.
He fell out of his crib this morning and I knew. It was time to move on. I was squeezing his three year old body into the baby bed for my own pleasure.
He has been a little bit excited all day. He’s been running from person to person squealing, “I’m getting a BIG BOY BED!”
Faith and I spent the morning taking the nursery apart and putting it back together. She’s my rearranging buddy. She’s the one that understands when I say something like, “Move that table to the left.” The rest of the kids kind of stare, obviously trying to figure out which way is left. It makes me so proud.
This was a zero budget project. Just move things around, put baby things in storage & pull out the toddler bed we already owned.
Here is what is used to look like:
And now:
The other side before:
After complete exhaustion:
The baby toys are out and the big boy toys are in. It’s like Project Runway. “Auf Wiedersehen Leap Frog Puppy Pal, you’re OUT.”
I like that it still has that little boy feeling. I can’t take too much growing up at once.
I could probably edit out more stuff than I did, but I’m tired. I’m old. I’m busy pondering the passage of time.
When he put his chubby little hand on my face this morning and said, “It’s OK Mommy. Now I can be like Daddy and Jacob,” I almost lost it.
But I’m fine now. Someone brought me a few of the little snicker bars that are only available this time of year.
My family really does understand me.
oh lisa, i completely understand!
i know this will be me soon. it is such a sad step. everyone says, it what needs to happen or go with the flow – whatever – but i don’t want to. i cherish each day as i know you do. i just love a nursery. it just warms my heart to walk into ours or anyones. i completely understand! i’m not going to call it a “big boy room” but the little boys room looks wonderful. such a fun collection of wonderful treasures in there for him.
i’ll be thinking about you. because i know this is huge.
hugs.
kellie
Oh thanks Kellie! Isn’t silly? I really am sad. He’s such a sweetie pie.
I think back on my other kids and it was always hard. Jacob so enjoyed it today when I talked about his babyhood. It’s just the topic all 18 year old boys love to discuss. LOL! Lisa~
Awwww….he is SO incredibly cute! Congratulations and condolences…and Levi’s room (no longer the “nursery”) looks fabulous 🙂 But I think you need some Reese’s to go along with those Snickers……
You are so right Lis! I wish I had a chocolate and peanut loving friend to bring me some! 😉
Poor Levi, he just fell out of the bed for the second time. It’s going to be a loooong night. Lisa~
Oh, so sweet when he patted you on the cheek. 🙂 I held a little seventeen month girl all night in the nursery at church – soooooooo sweet. She was a cuddler and slept for half an hour.
I know your pain…my youngest is now five! Five! How did this happen?!
He loves being a big boy, and thankfully he still loves his Momma…
To make you feel a bit better – the room is really great! It’s a room he can grow with!
I have wept a bit, too. So bittersweet, and WAY too fast!
Hugs!
Laurie
In a way I have had to do the same thing. We are transitioning our 19mo. to a big bed. It is hard, I keep putting her down in the crib in my room. I try to convince myself why she needs to be in the crib even though she is fine with the big bed in the big girls room.But alas I have a new babe coming in seven short weeks.And although the new babe will be in my bed for a time the toddler must move on. It is so hard to accept that she is not going to be the baby anymore.I can’t imagine when I do this for the last time.Oh I pray by then grandbabies will be on the way. I think I will have some chocolate too!Cry all you want…we will cry right along with you.I sometimes think if their are babies in heaven I hope I get to be one of the caregivers.I just love babies.
Oh my at three it’s a wonder he wasn’t catapulting himslf into the rocking chair each morning!
I know that mine were way more ready to move out of the crib and into a big kid bed than I was ready for, but going from that toddler bed to a real bed was just as bad for me, so hang in there!
Can’t you just see Christ rejoicing right along with Levi!
Sheri O.
Hello Lisa,
Well, I think i need to come visit your guest house! You can so make one laugh & cry all at the same time. So my children are walking by me thinking :Mommas having a real problem” I say “oh no, it’s just this nice Miss Lisa knows so how it is like when Sam turned three & all that’ …okay they say”do you mean Aunt Lisa” ” uh-no a blog friend Lisa” Okay now I am sure they are telling Daddy I need help” Hey…a day to knit—okay I can handle that! 🙂 Yes, the lils-growing up is a very bittersweet thing, we are never really done with “our baby”! thats fine…at least there are some that understand! And if chocolate helps…well thank God they know you! Ha!
Blessings~
~Lori
P.S. Do you mind sharing the color of the ‘big boy toddler room’?
Awwww, I feel your pain. My youngest is 3 too and has been asking for a Big Girl bed. I just keep putting her off. I just feel so sad about moving her out of the crib. So many people have told me “they grow up so fast…enjoy them” Only experience allows you to feel the full impact of that statement. Ouch, I’m feeling it!
Your Levi is adorable. And, oh, what words he thought were suppose to be a comfort to you – “Now I can be like Daddy and Jacob”. At least he’s figured out who his role models are! So sweet.
God bless your family!
I so understand what you are feeling. I think we really do grieve a little bit. My three year old (almost four), looks more like a little boy than a toddler now, and it is bittersweet.
AWE.. i couldn’t imagine. Jude will be three in a few days and I still have is “nursery” set up. I need to move on, but I just can’t!
MamaHen, I don’t even want to think about that. I don’t know if it is the weather or what, but I am so teary today and the thought of Levi not having any baby left is too sad.
Angel, hang on!!! I am sitting here listening to Levi sing in his room (what used to be the nursery) and it is so sweet.
Lisa~
It’s sooo lovely. What a great little boy room with a great little boy in it.