Could the transition really have been this easy?

Yesterday morning we converted our cribs to toddler daybeds. The boys were SOOO excited! We didn't have time to really 'hype' them up or have them pick out bedding or anything, but we did have them 'help' take the crib part down & put up the new side rail.

So far, things have been GREAT. I was sooo scared, but I'm also still nervous that things could still get bad. My boys haven't napped in the same room for about 2 years, but they're on nap #2 in the same room right now! Conner usually naps downstairs in a PNP, but he's been so eager to sleep in his big boy bed, that we've been trying it. Both days they went to sleep easily & fairly quickly. Yesterday's nap was short, so we'll see what today brings...but we had short nap days in the cribs, too (just not very often)!

Bedtime last night was a breeze. Not one single issue. We told them over & over to come get us in the morning when they woke, yet they still cried for us. One of our goals in switching to toddler beds was to hopefully avoid them waking each other by yelling when they woke, so we're still working on that. We have "The Tot Clock", so that may be making our transition easier. They know they cannot get out of bed til their clock turns yellow...we've had the clock for 2 weeks now.

There's still a chance this could get ugly, right? I mean, it's only day 2. One of these days they'll figure out they can climb out & get into trouble, right? Or could it really be this easy???

 

:clapping: :woo: That's great that it's going so well. Fingers crossed you get lucky and sleep time continues to be trouble free. I can tell you that both of my sets of twins were fine with the transition to beds, no getting up crazy early, trashing the room or anything. They were around the same age as your boys are too. It is possible for it to be just that easy!

 

Our bedtimes got really ugly around that age and my girls were still in cribs, but the transition to twin beds about 6 months later did not make it any worse. :laughing: So it is possible to have a smooth transition!

 

I had the same thoughts when we transitioned my girls to toddler beds! It was sooo easy, and I was waiting for weeks for the other shoe to drop, and for it to get ugly. Well they have been in toddler beds for almost 6 months now and it still hasn't! My girls sleep so much better in toddler beds than they ever did in cribs. I hope the same is true for you!!

 

:woo: I am glad the transition went so well for you!
My DD did great with the initial transition to the toddler bed. It took her a couple of months to realize that she had some freedom and could get out...so for a few weeks, she would stay up and play during nap and bedtime but I think now the novelty is over and she is back to sleeping good again.

 

Our transition was super easy too. The girls 'helped' us put together the beds and for the first few weeks we put a gate at the their door so they wouldn't wander around the house. But now we don't use the gate and they still stay in their room in the morning until one of us comes to get them. We switched in November and so far so good. I hope your experience is the same as mine.

 

We had a smooth transition too. We converted to toddler beds when the girls were about 20 months old. It's been almost a year and so far no major incidents. I think they had two or three days of throwing everything onto the floor and jumping from their beds onto the pile (after about four weeks of being in beds), but that stopped pretty quickly, and they still stay in bed in the morning and yell for us rather than climb out.

 

OK you all, quit rubbing it in! J/K..glad it has been smooth sailing for you all. I am truly jealous!!

 

so funny ... I opened your post because I posted the exact same thing (same subject line and everything) a few months ago. We went to toddler daybeds on Halloween and I, too, thought it was going to be a nightmare. They did well and continue to do so! The first couple of weeks they stayed in the beds. They have their moments, now, where they will get out of their beds and I will find them in bed together or I will get them up and they have like 20 books in the beds with them. It takes them longer to go to sleep now (I don't usually go in there even if I know they are out of their beds ... unless it has been a really long time ... like an hour ... and they aren't sleeping yet) but they still take good naps and sleep well at night (they are in the same room but always have been.) Sometimes, over the monitor, I will hear one tell the other to get back in her bed ... that she is not "posed" to be out of her bed ... or "Mommy told you not to get out your bed!" ... really, ever since the transistion, it is just more entertaining to listen to the conversations!

Hope it continues to go as well for you!

 

Here's hoping there's no more to it than just this! So glad it has been going well for you! :banana:

 

Ours was a very painless transition as well. I was quite suprised because it wasn't what I expected.

Good luck and I hope the transition continues to be an easy one for you!

 

Aside from clothes being thrown around for a few days, our transition was a cake walk too.

 

Thanks everyone! Things continue to go well. They've napped in the same room 3 days in a row with little incident. I'm beyond excited about that since Conner's been hogging our spare bedroom every afternoon for 2 years! We're FINALLY getting it into their little heads to come get us when they wake...Conner has done it twice now (although it scares me to death to wake up to those little eyes RIGHT in my face !!!!). However, I'm growing a little nervous because this morning I heard them conversing about having to go to the bathroom. We've told them over & over again to come get us if they have to get up before their clock turns yellow (we have a Tot Clock), yet they got up when it was still blue, marched into the bathroom, & went potty. Not a HUGE deal, but then they both took off for the living room. DH sat up watching them, but we're only slightly reassured in the fact that they were calling out for us while heading into the living room. So, it's a process....hopefully within the next few days they'll understand to come into our room & wake us up when their clock turns yellow or to come to us if their clock is blue & they need to go potty or something (in an ideal world, they'd get up, pee, & go back to bed on their own, but I don't anticipate that for a while...they're pretty picky about how they're covered up !!!!) I had them help pick out a night light for our hall so they can find us in the dark in our room easier, which they love, but thus far, it hasn't been used.

So, hopefully the upcoming days continue to go well. I thought potty training would be horrible, but it wasn't (in fact, it was SUPER easy). I thought this transition would be horrible, too, but thus far, not so much. I still think our worst 'transition' was the 2 to 1 nap fiasco. God did I hate that.

Thanks again for the hope that this may just go as well as it is now! Whew!

 

That is awesome!! :clapping: Ours was pretty seamless too...after about one week of adjustment. :good:

 

So funny, I just posted about my "11 PM slumber parties". My boys transitioned wonderful...at first. They thought they needed permission to get out of their beds. Now at age 3...they do not stay in their beds...trash their rooms...and turn into little party animals. I hope things are different for you. But they are boys, and the bestest of friends... so it is just a big slumber party here!