Our Weekend In Review...

Besides our adventure in trick or treating, as shown here, we had a great and BUSY weekend!

A BIG milestone for Aiden, he has moved to a big boy bed!!!! On Friday, I put this fabulous Ikea bed together for him and we moved him into his own bed:) We wanted to move the crib to the baby's room, if possible, so we decided it was now or never. The bed is twin sized, so he looks like a little peanut in it, but so far...the transition has gone relatively smooth! We added a toddler rail on the side so he won't fall out, which he loves. The rail has a spot for his water, books, and a mini-nightlight. He also has to use a little step stool to get in and out, which our little monkey climber loves. I love his bed...I spent many hours on this quilt and am excited that we are finally using it! We follow the same routine as before...brushing teeth, bath, pajamas, and reading books with our little boy. Instead of reading in the rocker, we now read his books in his bed:) And I have to say it is pretty comfortable!

So you can see, we have moved the rocker out of the room for two reasons. 1. We can use it for our next precious babe:) and 2. Aiden was climbing in and out of it WAY too much and doing some dangerous moves in it! So it needed to go before we had a major accident! Instead, we changed that side of the room into a reading corner and a play area:)

Aiden LOVES his bed! The first few days he would beg for a nap all day long! He climbs in and out of it all day long-taking toys and books up there with him. The first two nights were amazing, but the third night was not a charm. He was in and out of bed screaming for over an hour until the tough love came out in me:) I used the Supernanny method (after googling what to do) and just kept walking him back to his bed. I have used this technique for naps and bedtimes this week and so far, he has done quite well. I probably have only had to go in there about five times all week to remind him to go to sleep!

As you can see, even with the doorknob cover on...he can still open the door! So that was a bust of a product to buy:) Usually he is either opening and closing this door from the bed or playing with his noise machine instead of sleeping:) He likes to take random objects into his bed, which sometimes I have to go in and confiscate, today was his electronic cell phone! At the moment, Aiden is napping and I think he has like ten stuffed animals in there, the books we read before nap, another cell phone, a camera case, and his pacifiers. If it makes him happy and gets him to sleep, then I do what works!

Another big project for the weekend, we cleaned out our garage! If you saw it before (right Dad?), you know that this is a huge improvement! We can now get a car in there!!

We also carved our pumpkins:) Can you tell who did which one?

Chris worked through another weekend on the house! He started painting the baby's room and is hoping to finish in the next couple days. He also blew our leaves for the fall pickup which happened on Monday. Aiden LOVED watching the leaf blower and running through the leaves. Here is a shot of our little man astonished at the leaf blower:

Looking at all the leaves:

And last, but not least, I am feeling bigger by the day! About a month to go, here I am with baby boy #2! We can't wait to meet our little boy and are working hard on getting things done around here so we can enjoy the precious newborn days with our baby.