New Bed

Nate is lucky enough to have a big cousin who passes things down to him sometimes. Love and I discussed the need to suck it up and buy Nate a twin sized bed after his birthday. I started looking online at headboards after my mother offered to give me my old mattress and box spring since it was hardly used. Then I got a text from my sister-in-law saying that my nephew was getting a new bed and asking if Nate wanted his race car bed. Of course Nate got really excited (especially since it was Noah’s) and we said yes. They moved the bed when they came down from NH for Nate’s birthday party and it went down to the basement. I knew it would be bigger than his toddler bed but I didn’t realize how big it actually is.

My house is tiny and my brother-in-law and sister-in-law have a huge house. Noah’s room is easily 3 times the size of Nate’s. Nate’s room is closer to the size of Noah’s closet (which I am really jealous of…do you know what I could do with all that closet space?!?!) and he has a lot of stuff packed into the room already. Last week we finally made to leap and Love and his father moved the bed upstairs. I almost cried when I realized that it takes up half of the room. I pulled myself together because Nate was so excited and I moved some stuff around and made it work. I’m not thrilled with how tight the room is now but it’s not that much bigger than a regular twin bed and it makes him really happy so who cares.

The goal with all of this was to get him to sleep in his own bed (he will never have a sibling if he doesn’t) and I was surprised that after a few nights of back and forth he actually slept for 5 nights in a row in the bed. He came into my bed Sunday night but I think it was because there is a lot of change going on. He finished summer camp Friday, my parents came home from vacation Saturday and he slept over their house Monday night. He’s really excited to start Pre-K next week but he is nervous too. He also has the toddler mattress in the bed right now because we have to pick up the twin from my parents. Hopefully we can do that this week and get him back to sleeping on his own. I’m going to bribe him with Avengers sheets after his first day of Pre-K and it better work!

 With the toddler mattress and bedding we still have room for stuffed animals, a box of tissues, a sippy cup and a stack of books!

 I decided it was time to pick a theme and stick with it...I removed all of the Toy Story wall decals but Nate made me keep the HUGE Jessie because, "She is Izzy's best friend" so I moved the Jake stickers all around Jessie to make him happy

 See how small the room is? Nate has too may toys!

Even his dresser is covered in toys and books