After going back and forth with each other, Daniel and I decided that we would go ahead and convert Cooper's crib into a big boy bed when we moved in the new house. We haven't taken him out of the crib before now because he's never tried to climb out and it just didn't seem like an issue. The only thing I was concerned with was the amount of change we were about to expose him to. Cooper has never done well with change and I was afraid that moving to a new house and then transferring him to a larger bed might be too much at one time.
I was pleasantly surprised! The first night we decided to start a new bedtime routine and read with him in his room in his big boy bed. We really talked up the fact that he was a big boy now and so he would get to sleep in a big boy bed....woohoo! After reading a couple of books that he had chosen we told him it was time to go to sleep and so he laid down and got comfortable and before long he was out! It also helped that he had not had a nap that afternoon so he was extra sleepy at bedtime.
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