August finally fell out of the crib a week ago when his grandparents were babysitting, but before that he'd barely even tried to get out. And with Jeanie here we need the crib for her, so it was time. But it was a hard decision as he really seemed to not mind being in there and would just wait patiently for us to get him in the morning!
I had found this toddler bed on CraigsList I think even while I was still pregnant with him, so it had been stored at my parent's for a couple years.
It was in pretty rough shape.
Over the summer, the kids and I went up to my parents a couple times and mom and I worked on stripping and sealing it. It was my first time doing a project like that.
That stuff was so corrosive it instantly ate through my little vinyl gloves.
my worker bee mama
It was really time consuming to work that stripper around all the spindles, if even the slightest residue was left- the sealing stain coat would bubble up instantly and mess things up, so it was pretty time consuming.
But it looks so good!
So that was over the summer and we just transferred him the other day after several weeks of talking up the 'big boy bed'.
I assumed like most toddler beds it would just be as simple as swapping out the crib mattress from the crib to here...
But nope, it is apparently some random length and width, so that left us in a predicament.
After a lot of brainstorming, we found a place that sells foam (the foam factory) and Doug went over with our measurements and they cut a piece of foam, and even quickly sewed a outer covering for it, and fits like-a-glove
I was sad that his little crib sheets don't fit anymore because I loved the sweet woodland prints, but oh well. I ordered him some twin sheets because there is nothing that will fit this particular size, and they will just be tucked under until a couple years when he graduates to his 'real big boy bed' of a twin. And that's all the beds and mattresses I plan on buying for him! (unless he somehow gets gigantically tall, but I don't really see that happening)
He has been pretty good about staying in bed. The first night he came in to our room once at 5am, but went back to bed. Mostly we just hear him hopping out of bed to open the door "a little crack" and then running back over.
(there he was the other day while daddy was out buying the foam mattress).
He loves books. I love my boy, it's such a blessing to watch him grow.
Doesn't everyone cook with a skeleton arm on their counter?
5 year anniversary date!
I call this her supermodel pose
Starbucks was so needed this day at work.
Nobody puts August in his toy cabinet!
New baskets for our new tv stand (soon to come new tv- how can we part with our built-in dvd/vcr set up you must be wondering?!?) I actually don't mind our old tv. It works perfectly for me doing my exercise dvds and we mostly watch stuff on our laptop anyway if we want to watch a movie. I only ever turn the tv on to watch the Bachelor! :)
Fashion statement.
We stumbled upon the Cinnabon recipe and Elizabeth came over and we made 3 batches, one with butter (the best one), one with coconut oil (the bottoms burned), and one with gluten free flour (need I say it, the waste of ingredients batch)
Oh yeah, frost it baby!
My first, very tame, charcuterie board when we had a couple of Doug's friends over.
She was gifted new mittens handmade from a neighbor, no more big-brothers-sock hands!
He was very excited Sandy was up and running at the grocery store. "Hey everybody! It's working!!!" Very cute.
