Although it's not quite the fascinating story, i wanted to capture it here for posterity. We finally did it. We moved the kids from their cribs into toddler beds. It's been repeatedly delayed while promises of race-car and teady-bear beds have gone unfulfilled for weeks on end. So Saturday, excuses came to a grinding halt, as did sleep for us. The first night was quite a fiasco. Our little girl actually took to the whole idea immediately and is doing excellent, but our son's opted to take the, uh, less compliant route. So much so that I reassembled his crib on the first night and have it in their room as a fallback option. We've had to resort to it for the last two nights but last night, although it took some patience, they both made it through the night.
And to top it off, to our surprise, this morning our daughter made the appropriate overtures about using the 'potty' and actually did! So begins that transition as well. Her reward was a sticker, of which her brother was quite jealous, but motivation lies within the reward system. We'll but putting up a little chart for them on the fridge. Our new motto: tinkle tinkle, little star.
