Goodbye Crib!

Hi All,
Here is Drew showing off his crib scaling capabilities....

Up and over

"And I'm out - easy as pie!"

So, we did it. We made to move from crib to toddler bed for Drew, due to his climbing abilities. Once he started up again, he pretty much didn't stop. He was climbing out of the crib repeatedly at will. So the crib was only serving as a safety hazard at this point.
We decided to transition the crib to a toddler bed, which is a feature that the crib came with. (There is a bed rail that replaces one of the crib rails, and it's a very simple installation.) Jim happened to take the day off, and the kids and I watched as he switched out the rails.

Both Drew and Bree wasted no time getting a few jumps in on the new bed, but were still more comfortable jumping on the old.

We asked Bree if she wanted her crib to look like Drew's did, and she said no. I was pretty surprised by that. But I was more than happy to oblige in keeping her crib intact for a while longer, as she is not at risk of climbing out yet.

Inspecting the big boy bed

So far, so good!

To my amazement, both nap time and bed time went off, pretty much without a hitch! Right on schedule, Drew announced he wanted to go "night, night" at nap time and ran off to lay in his new bed. We got Bree into her crib, and that was it! At bed time, we got a very late start for a few reasons. But, once we all got serious about it, the kids both piled in to Drew's bed for story time and then it was time for bed. Bree claimed she wanted to stay in Drew's bed with him, but also got up out of his bed a couple times. So, I cut her off at the pass and quickly moved her to her crib. The only protesting I got was they wanted the big light on in their room, which I kept on for them. We ended up having a pretty big rain storm as the kids were going to bed. I was a little surprised the lightning and loud rain did not bother them, but they made it through the night without a peep! They are still sleeping as I type.
I'm sure we'll have our hiccups along the way, but "Day One of the Toddler Bed" was a success!