Bye Bye Baby

Big Boy Bed

Shelby has been determined to get Colin a big boy bed for months and I'd managed to hold him off until he got home from deployment. Shelby was home all of two days before he was dragging us off to Ikea to get Colin's bed. Colin fell in love with the bed as soon as we saw it in the store, as we were looking at it and deciding if this was the one Colin was telling us to put it in the cart and buy it for him. He was so excited I thought he would bust, Colin too. ;) Of course you can't go to Ikea and get just what you came for, they really need to sell drugs there to numb the pain of going through the checkout.

We got home and unloaded all our Colin's loot and Colin immediately ran to his tool bench and gathered up his tools and headed upstairs to help Daddy build. Building with a soon to be three year old is a challenge to say the least. It's an absolute miracle that all the parts made it in the bed and where they go without being eaten (by Colin or his dinosaurs) or misplaced. The 45 minute job took double that but at least we had entertainment during the project.



Before the bed was done Colin was trying to throw us out of the room and go to sleep in it. He was so excited he couldn't stand it. He kept making up excuses why he needed to go to bed, it was too late, he was sick, he was real tired. Crazy kid!



We did make him come downstairs and eat dinner, he ate the fastest I've seen him eat in months! Then he wanted to go straight to bed, which is where we put him, and where he stayed until 8:30 the next morning!