A Milestone Reached Much Too Early

You may be looking at this picture thinking, "Why in the world would they put Ryan in a toddler bed before he's even a year old?" In a word, because he has figured out how to climb out of his crib.

In all actuality, I didn't think the whole toddler/big boy bed would become an issue until somewhere between 18 and 24 months. That's what I get for thinking.

Today I put Ryan down for his afternoon nap as usual. And as usual, when I left the room I could hear him crying inside. A few minutes later I heard a thud, but didn't think much of it because Ryan has this habit of sitting on his knees and falling forward onto the crib. After the thud, his cry started getting louder so I walked into the hallway toward his room, and guess who was pushing his door open and heading toward the hall?

At first we thought it was just a fluke. I took the bumper off of the crib then put him back in. I left the bedroom door open just enough so I could see what he was doing. He got into the corner, put one foot on the slats of each side of the corner and just climbed his way up the sides.

We were going to just convert his crib to a full sized bed until we realized I didn't actually buy the rails to covert it yet. Oops. So we'll see how he does when we try to put him to bed tonight...wish us luck!