big boy bed

Dylan,

Here at our "vacation home" (actually a college dormitory) you get your own room with two twin beds. At home you're still sleeping in your crib, so although we decided not to bring the Pack-N-Play with us (to conserve space for things like Mom's bicycle) we were still a little wary about you rolling off the side of a standard "big boy" bed. The floors here seem to be concrete under dense carpeting, with no pad.

Fortunately, there were extra bed rails available in your room, you know, the kind that would normally support one side of a mattress. We lowered the mattress on one of the beds, pushed it up against the higher bed, then added one of the extra rails just above mattress height -- with the actual ledge part facing outward -- to serve as a really great retaining wall. You even pointed to it and said: "That's to keep me from falling out".

You're doing a great job of sleeping (even napping) in the big bed. We're going to have to get you one of your own.


Dad