Rowan's door. The elephant has his name on it, and was a present tag from a relative. The doorknob has a key to Children's Fairyland on it. |
We have been huge advocates of co-sleeping and sharing the family bed since bringing Rowan home over two years ago. It helps with breastfeeding, everyone gets better sleep, and fosters a secure attachment with your child. I can't recommend it enough. Rowan loves to sleep with us- which is why I was worried that he would hate being in his own room. I am glad to say that I needn't have worried.
He is adorable, no? |
Asleep for a nap. (Yes yes, I know. No bottles in bed.) |
As we prepared to move to the new house, I kept talking up the fact that Rowan was going to get his own room and his own "big boy bed". I showed him the bed and told him that it would be his. He seemed excited. (I also promised him a fish, which I made good on- he feeds it every morning and named it "Nahmahnah" after the Muppet song "Mahnah mahnah" which he loves to watch on You Tube.) He also saw some of the elements that would be going into his room- like the pegboard for his coats that I painted and glued animals onto, and the decals for the walls, and the mon lamp that my sister bought him for Christmas.
I plan on painting the top of this table with chalkboard paint. |
Remarkably, he has been sleeping in his bed, all on his own since moving here, with very few issues. He still wakes sometimes in the night and we still go in and comfort him back to sleep. We haven't quite weaned him off of milk bottles at bedtime and nap time, although he is drinking less and less and I think he is weaning himself. we also often just give him water instead of milk.
Moon lamp, Doctors Without Borders map, and LOTS of books! |
He never fussed over having to sleep alone, which tells me that he was ready for such a change. He loves how I have decorated the room (I got vinyl wall decals off of Etsy of animals and his name and monogram) and has named the animals.
I made his cute clothes peg board and he loves it. |
The two birds are both named Pete, strangely enough. Big Pete and Little Pete. No, he has never seen that Nickelodeon show, either. This came straight from his strange little brain. |
He can name almost every letter on his floor now! |
He will grow up here, and I think we are both happy with that.
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteWe also move house about a year ago and were co-sleeping with our 2 gorls before the move. I too worries that the little one would not want to sleep in another room with only her sister but she took it in stride. I wonder if the changing location made it easier for her to accepte the idea as in: new house new rooms, new arrangement. She was 3 at the time. Kid never sease to amaze.
This is great! I am currently sharing a bed with my three year old daughter. She slept in our room in a pack n' play next to us until she was over one. Then she got her own room, and a beautiful new crib and dresser. She slept great in there, but then she started crawling out of her crib, so she got switched to a toddler bed. Shortly after we switched her, she started throwing fits about sleeping in her bed. After a couple months of these fits, and all of us being exhausted day after day, she started sleeping with me and my hubby started sleeping in her room! We are actually all very happy about this arrangement. We all sleep great now! My hubby and I still get our cuddle time, and my daughter and I have an even stronger bond. I hope he likes his big boy bed, and I hope everything works for you all!
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