New Beds

In the last month, the kids have moved to a new house (apartment), started a new school, and are no longer sleeping in their cribs. They moved out of their cribs on the late side (after the age of three) because we didn’t want to buy new beds and get rid of their cribs right before we moved out of our old house. Basically, we just left the cribs in the old house, which is still on the market, and bought new beds for the apartment.

We didn’t have the foresight to buy cribs that converted to toddler beds and my friend Sophia recommended that we just go straight to buying twin beds since it didn’t make sense to buy toddler beds at this point. I was concerned about them falling out their beds since they did move around a lot in their cribs, so we ended up with the cheapest bed they sell at Ikea, the TOLGA, which is like a twin futon frame on which we laid a foam mattress. It’s only nine inches above the ground (i measured it) and with the thin foam mattress, about twelve inches total. The kids picked out their own bedding.

Miranda in her new bed.

Eleanor in her new bed.

The kids loved their beds and slept in them great the first night. They actually stay in their beds until we get them in the morning. One night Bernard heard Eleanor crying and found her tangled in her blanket on the floor. I guess she fell out of the bed, but no harm done. This hasn’t happened again. We still have the same issue we had with the cribs during naptime, which is that they talk and don’t sleep for two hours. One afternoon, we found Eleanor in Miranda’s bed, harassing her so that she couldn’t take a nap. Since then, we’ve had to send Eleanor to the guest room for naps.

Overall, we’re pleased that the crib to bed transition went smoothly. Now, we just need to get rid of the pull-ups at night. Eleanor always has a dry pull-up in the morning. Miranda is about 70% dry, 30% wet.