Change

Change is never fun, but we decided we might as well get started on the process before we're worn out with another baby added to the mix. So after the holidays we started with the paci or as Mason calls it "bobbie". It was a little hard for me because he said it so cutely and he just loved sleeping with his bobbie.

We decided to cut away a little bit of the paci every couple nights. He knew it wasn't his regular working paci, but it didn't stop him from sucking on it. After about 10 days we finally just decided to take it away completely....he was down to only 1/3 of the nipple (yes he was still somehow sucking on it). We timed it on a night that he was hanging out with a bunch of church kids for 4 hours one afternoon/evening so he was nice and tired. He cried for his bobbie several times, but did end up falling asleep after about 10 minutes of fussing. The next day he fussed for only about 5 minutes. After that he didn't fuss too much, but it did take him a long time to fall asleep (30-45 minutes). That paci was like a sedative, and he would go to sleep almost immediately. Now he would toss, turn, walk around his crib, etc. He still mentions his bobbie everyday, but not in a sad way. He usually says "bobbie bye-bye" or "bobbie go?"

After a week or two of no paci we moved on to the next change...crib. Mason will be sleeping on a twin size bed, but we decided to start with converting his crib to a toddler bed. The first time he had the freedom to move about he played for about an hour. He took clothes out of his drawers, books out of his box, and toys out of his toy box. When he finally fell asleep I found him out on the rocking chair.

Sometimes he will fall asleep on the floor, but usually it's on the chair. I made a little pallet on the floor next to the bed since he usually falls off the bed at night...it doesn't seem to wake him though. We bought a bed rail for the twin bed, but we couldn't use it on this bed because it didn't leave enough room for Mason to get up and down from the bed very well.After a week of the toddle bed I have found him asleep in the bed only twice and one of those times was today. So hopefully this will start becoming the norm. Thankfully he's done pretty well with the changes this month. I just can't believe my baby is getting so big!