John, Stop It!

Stop growing up, dang it! I've had a few "mom moments" over this past week or so. I had mentioned a little while back how John would not sleep in a "big boy" bed until he was three and/or could climb out of his crib. Well, he must've heard me because the very next day, I found him scaling the sides of his crib. 

during his nap the next day...

On payday there happened to be one toddler bed at the PX, so we snatched it up! I was really afraid about what Nathan & I were in for that night, but it really went much smoother than I had anticipated. He only cried for about 40 minutes before passing out. Then the next day for his nap he only cried for a couple minutes. It's been smooth sailing! I can't believe how big he is. I may have cried a few tears silently to myself when he went to sleep the first night & we checked on him before we went to sleep lol. He's just growing up too fast! It honestly doesn't seem like almost 2 years since he was born! 

He LOVES the new arrangement in his room. I moved the crib over to the other wall because on the 13th when we're in Landstuhl we're getting another crib mattress so that miss Ellie can sleep in the crib & finally share a room with John instead of Nathan & I. I also decided to move their little "closet" -aka- cheap metal frame with clear plastic zip up cover, out into the hall because it's not very stable. I don't want him messing with it if he happens to wake up in the middle of the night. I also got rid of any picture frames that were in his room ( they were on the window ledge ) because I don't need him breaking those in the middle of the night. Basically, there's the crib, his bed, a rug, his ball pit, ride on truck & a play work bench with his tools. The boxes that you see by his bed are packed full of MREs and are HEAVY. They're stacked under neath a light switch that he can reach. Although I think we'll move those out too & just resort to unscrewing the light bulbs before he takes a nap or goes down for the night. 

Well, I just had to share how big our little boy is! Oh, we also had an appointment today & found out that he's 28.75 lbs (65th percentile) & 33.25 inches (50th percentile). 

And now just a few pictures I took today of him climbing on things in the living room :)