So Long, Fire Truck Bed

We bought this bed for Camden back in 2004, right before Steve deployed to Iraq. At the time, I thought it was probably one of the most impractical purchases I'd ever made. As it turns out, it was actually one of the best. Camden has loved that bed since the moment it came into the house. He started sleeping in it at the tender age of 18 months, and not once did he ever try to "escape" during the night, or at nap time (Griffin, on the other hand, will be two in just three short months, and the thought of putting him into a toddler bed makes me want to run for the hills! That boy will probably be in a crib until he is at least five, and handcuffed to it, at that!). Anyway, today marks an important transition for Camden - - moving into a Big Boy bed. Technically, it should have happened quite some time ago, because he is very tall, and has been folded up in that little toddler bed for months, poor thing. Last week I hit the jackpot on Craigslist, and scored two matching rock maple beds. I picked them up over the weekend, and they are just beautiful. They are around 70 years old. I bought them from a woman who told me that her two boys had slept in them throughout their childhood, and before them, she and her sister had slept in them, and before that, her mother had slept in them. When she told me all of that, it made the beds even more special. Bright and early this morning, the furniture store arrived with a new mattress and boxspring. The boys and I put Camden's new pirate bedding on his bed, and it has been the most popular spot in the house ever since.

The bed is very high, but of course Griffin has already figured out how to climb up on it, and as you can see, stand up. I predict a bruise or two in his future. Hopefully no broken bones, though! I just put Griffin down for a nap a few minutes ago, and he was determined that he was going to sleep on Camden's new bed. I'm thinking I will need to get some toddler rails and set Griffin's bed up sooner, rather than later. Maybe someone makes some teeny-tiny restraints? As for the fire truck bed, I will be posting that on Craigslist in the next day or two, in hopes that it will make another little boy as happy as it made Camden.