Toddler Bed

Well Sunday morning we had the wonderful surprise of being woken up by our son who came into our room to say hi. He has developed this love for climbing this past week and now has successfully climbed out of his crib. He is only 16 months old, and Matt and I had many long discussions about whether or not he was ready for a toddler bed. Having heard many many horror stories about children falling out of the crib and breaking arms or worse, we decided to move him to a toddler bed even though he is a little young. Can't say its been a fun experience, but it could be worse. I swear we have somehow transported back 15 months or so in regards to our sleep schedule. Our first night: It took us an hour to get him to sleep-finally passing out at 8. Our poor neighbors probably thought we were torturing the poor boy. Matt went it and put him back in his bed around midnight, I went in about 2 am, and then Joseph woke up again at 4:30 and wouldn't go back to sleep. As of right now we have to stay in the room in order for him to fall asleep, but hopefully in the next week or two we can get back to him falling asleep by himself. The good news is that Joseph is so kind as to come and get us when he wakes up, which means I don't have to worry about him running wild around the house unsupervised.
Its kind of sad, the last little bit of his babyhood is now gone. He is such a big boy!

Cute Joseph Moments

Joseph has always loved music. So last week I made Joseph his own sing-a-long, because you cannot find the Disney Sing-a-longs on DVD (much to our dismay). Here are some adorable moments I have witnessed while Joseph has been watching his sing-a-long.

Lion King
 Joseph was watching Circle of Life holding his lion (a stuffed animal). I turned to Matt and said it would be too cute if Joseph held his lion up like Rafeke (sp?) did in the movie. Matt laughed and said he was probably too young to do that. At that exact moment Joseph looked at Matt and then held his lion up in the air.

Cinderella
 During A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Cinderella is singing to a group of mice and birds. I said "where are the birds?" (referring to the ones on the TV). Joseph then ran immediately over to the window and pointed outside.

Oliver and Company
 During Why Should I Worry? there are a lot of "ooo" parts. Joseph has now starting singing the "oooo"s and then funny thing is that he is actually in key!! Now whenever this song comes on he starts "oooo"ing.