A Weekend At Home

Nathan and I were a little under the weather this weekend, so we stayed in for most of the weekend.  Sadly, that meant that we missed the grand opening of Harrods' new Toy Kingdom.  Our friends, the Pappas', said it was great, so I am sure that we will be checking it out at some point in the future - we will add that to our list of rainy day activities!  By the way, we're both feeling better now, so hopefully we won't be missing out on anything else.

By staying in, we did get some things done around the flat.  We finished hanging things on Nathan's walls (including a new height chart, so we can finally start keeping track of how tall Nathan is between doctor's visits) and we decided to convert Nathan's crib into a toddler bed.  He has not been a fan of the crib here (even though he loved his crib at home) and recently he has started trying to climb out of the crib, so that pretty much made the decision for us - I don't want to deal with any broken bones here.  Unfortunately, the previous owners of the crib (we bought it from our realtor) had not followed directions and had drilled a bunch of unnecessary holes into the crib, so when we tried to convert it to a toddler bed, it was so rickety that I insisted that we throw it out and buy a new toddler bed.  Of course, the new bed won't be here until Monday, so Nathan is sleeping on his crib mattress on the floor for now.  After we get the toddler bed put together, I think that will be the end of "building" things and that we will finally be all settled!  

We'll keep you posted on how this new big boy bed transition goes.  I'm hoping well, because my usually perfect sleeper is giving me a run for my money.  He's usually fine once he gets to sleep, but the process of getting him to sleep is getting to be a bit much (sometimes 45 minutes to an hour both at nap time and at bed time).  At home, all I had to do was stick him in his crib and he curled up and went to sleep - not so much here.  I am hoping that he is still just getting used to his surroundings and will settle back into his routine pretty soon, because mom is getting tired of it!  If any of you moms out there have any suggestions, I will take them!  We're also getting a rocker tomorrow, so that might help as well, because at home rocking in our glider together as he drank his sippy cup of milk was part of our bed-time routine - maybe he's missing the routine??  I don't know.

Have a great week everyone!

Chris and Casey beginning the process of converting the crib to a toddler bed.  Little did they know that this was a futile effort.

Nathan playing with his blocks at his little table.

Nathan's temporary "bed."

Nathan sleeping in his temporary bed.

Measuring Nathan - surprisingly he stood very still for this and actually let me do it.