Today I donated Eli's convertable crib-to-tot-bed. Sniff! Such good memories! I think my favorite one is that as soon as Eli could scooch around well enough, he'd wiggle his way to sleeping parallel to the headboard and right up against it. He looked like the last cigar in the cigar box! The first time he did it, it gave me quite a fright. The headboard was nearest to the door, so it wasn't until you were fully in the room and looking down that you'd see him. At first glance, it looked like he'd vanished! And poor Eli. He tried sleeping against the headboard even after he was too tall for it. We'd check on him in the middle of the night and he'd be up against the headboard, bent like a pretzel.
Good memories and happy kiddos aside, there comes a time when a four year-old who is 95th percentile for height just ain't gonna fit anymore. We would have gotten Eli a new bed a long time ago, but we wanted his sleeping place to be deeply familiar to him before and after the big move from California.
One weekend we all went furniture shopping. Soon a truck rolled up to our door...
Big truck. Friendly workmen. Tools. Lots of banging. Boy bliss.
And then getting to try it out...
Eli will say that the coolest thing about his new bed is the high reading space where he can touch the ceiling. (We've told Eli he can't sleep up there until he's older. I don't want him scaling a ladder in the darkness while sleepy! In the meantime, he has a basket of books up there.)
As a mama, I love that bunks will make sleepovers easy and gives Eli's room more usable space. And because we found a floor model on clearance, we ended up getting a much better set-up than we planned. I love the built-in desk with reading light, chest of drawers, and shelves.
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