Now that that is out of the way...on to the news.
Today is a momentous occasion. No, it's not their birthday (I still have to blog about that). It's even better. Today is the day we moved their cribs out of their room. Yes, they just turned 4. Yes, they were still in cribs. I figured as long as they still fit, why mess with it. But, a few nights ago, we discovered we were out of pull-ups for the night. Well, we had one left. So, we decided they could go without for the night and practice getting up to go potty. I'll get to how that worked out in a minute.
In order to make getting to the potty easier, we put their mattresses on the floor and the potty nearby on a mat. Sounds like a plan, right? Not so much. The girls were wet by the time Ben went to bed. I checked again around 2 or so, and they were wet again. I think they were wet again in the morning. The next day, I bought more pull-ups. Experiment - over.
But, they seemed to enjoy sleeping out of their cribs, so we left them on the floor. Here's the problem, however, with crib mattresses. They are small. You also have to know that Natalie and Abby are very busy sleepers. They often turn completely around in their cribs. This is not a problem when you are behind bars. It's more of an issue when there is nothing keeping you off the floor. We tired the pillow route, we even tried the laundry basket route, but when I went in to check on them in the middle of the night and I couldn't find Natalie (she was nearly in the middle of the floor), I knew the crib mattresses had to go.
So, without much fanfare, tonight the cribs were disassembled and regulated to the attic. We borrowed a page from Yaya and Grandpa's and brought out the queen air mattress which helpfully came with a built-in pillow back which works great as a bed rail. With princess pillows creating a divide, the girls are now back in the same bed.
Now, we just have to keep them from jumping on it:-)
