The BIG BOY BED move!

Done and Done! I am SO SO SO proud of August! This went so super smooth, it is very obvious to me that when we tried to do this 10 months ago that it was just way too soon for August.
We talked and talked about the move to August before it was to happen and Ms Gina made sure to incorporate books about Big Boy Beds during storytime.

Friday night we decided to take the move on. We bathed August and let him watch his two episodes of Curious George upstairs. After the episodes were over, we took him to his big boy room and in his bed was a new 21 inch Curious George (thank you SO much for this idea Aunt Sandra - it was golden!!). August got SO excited and immediately grabbed Curious George. We asked him if he wanted to sleep with Curious George and he let out a very excited "Yes" and started heading for the door. We stopped him and explained to him that Curious George sleeps upstairs in the big boy bed. August looked sad and said he wanted to sleep downstairs. Then we asked him if he would like to sleep upstairs with Curious George and he said ok. He climbed in bed, we gave him kisses, we left and we didnt hear a peep from him until 7:40am ! He woke up, said Mommy, Daddy.....Richard and I ran up there and he was pointing at the window saying - its light, August wake up!

Saturday night: August didnt get his nap because of a birthday party and he ran himself to the ground jumping on the trampoline at the birthday party, so he fell asleep while eating dinner. This was at 630pm. I was so nervous about how the night would go since we didnt do our routine! But August was GREAT! We moved him up to his bed at 730pm, and he laid in there wide awake (i was watching him on the camera) for about an hour holding Curious George, then turned over and went to sleep. At 430am, he fell off the bed :-( We have those sleeping rails up, but they dont go the entire length of the bed and August moves a lot when he sleeps. By the time I got upstairs, he had put himself back in the bed and had stopped crying. He was still a little shaken though. I asked him if he wanted mommy to lay down with him and he just grabbed Curious George and said "No Mommy, go away." So I did - I left and went downstairs to watch him. I didnt sleep again that night for fear he was going to fall out of bed again. At one point, I saw him getting close and ran upstairs and moved him. He didnt ask to get out of bed until 830am on Sunday!
Sunday I went and bought longer bed rails. August ASKED to go lay down with Curious George at 845pm and I had to go wake him up at 815am !
He is just doing so awesome!
Today when I was changing RDH in the Nursery, August told me that he sleeps upstairs in his Big Boy Bed and then he pointed to the crib and said that baby brother sleeps in there. warmed my heart!
thanks for all the prayers on this transition. I am so happy that August isnt scared and likes his new room! It's a big change for such a little boy! I was especially impressed that even though he fell out of the bed on Saturday, he was fine with going back in there and sleeping alone!
The mini crib in our room has been taken down YAY!!!!! now we are working on getting RDH to sleep a full night in his new room!