No more baby stuff!

We passed a major milestone last night. Scott took the boys and the trailer and came back with a new mattress for Bubba so we could convert the crib to a full size bed. Nothing is ever as easy as it seems, so getting the thing assembled require Scott to drill another hole in each leg (no two of the five holes lined up with the 4 or 5 slots in the rails, of course) and a trip to the hardware store for some nuts. Quick and easy bed rail assembly turned into something like 90 minutes.

Bubba has been sleeping in it as a toddler bed for years, and of course Cakes and Silly used it before him. I think that bed spent a lot more time as a toddler bed than a crib now that I think about it. But let me tell you, Bubba was one happy boy last night! Of course, the first thing he did was jump on it. Then he emptied the entire contents of his toy box and lined up all of his stuffed animals and babies, because now he has space for all of them.

Most importantly, he can now have Cakes or Silly come sleep in his bed, and be the one to choose while they beg to be picked, rather than him asking one of them every single night if they have school tomorrow, and if not, can he sleep with them. And they were surely begging him last night. I think that made him happiest of all. Gives the poor kid a chance to be the one with some power for once. Cakes won last night, Silly gets to test it out tonight.

I sneaked in for a picture after they were asleep. Cakes said when she woke up this morning Bubba was already awake and he had lined his stuffed animals up all around the bed.

Bubba also recently decided that he is too big for his "squishy seat" at the table, so that has been put away too. The crib and the booster seat were the last of the baby gear. The stroller is still in the garage, but it has been promised to my younger sister; we're just waiting on our next trip to Richmond. So that is that. We are done with babyhood. Weird.