Big Boy Bed

The weekend after he turned three, we set up Harrison's new room. He was looking a little big for his crib, and seemed to be doing just fine without the side on it, so it was time!

We got a bed and nightstand to match the dresser he already has. He kept his bookshelf and rocking chair and we moved the other chair out of his room.

He had fun going with us to IKEA to pick up the furniture. He likes to ride on the flatbed dolly thing that you have to use to pick up all of the boxes. He also had fun going with Mark to pick out his new mattress. It didn't even take too long to assemble the bed and nightstand and remove the crib and chair, but would have taken even less time without his help...he was very excited about the whole process and wanted to be right in the middle of it.

His sheets have bugs all over them and the colors in them match his green walls really well. We got a couple of sets of the wall decals that match the sheets and now one whole wall is covered in bugs. He loves it! He tells us the bugs are "playing tag" or "getting their friends". It is really pretty cute. I am sure once it is warmer and we can order the caterpillars for his butterfly habitat that Aunt Allison and Uncle Richard got him for his birthday, he will insist that they live in his bug room.

We also got a clock that changes color when it's time to get up for the morning or from his nap. It is seriously one of the best inventions EVER! We'll hear him wake up in the morning, and some days as soon as the clock changes to yellow (which means he can get up) we'll hear his feet hit the floor and hear him run out of his room. Other days he just stays in there playing with all of his animals on his bed.

He now loves to play in his room and even told me he wanted to stay in and do that instead of going to school one day last week. So, overall this new room thing has been a big hit! I still need to make curtains that match his new colors and put a few other things on the walls, but he doesn't seem to care that part isn't quite finished. Here are a few pictures:


Chillin on his new bed as soon as everything was set up that afternoon.



Hanging onto his cirb aquarium for dear life. He is probably the only kid who will go off to middle school with a crib aquarium still attached to his bed!!