MyMy jumped out of her crib after going to bed tonight for the first time. Looks like I have to go and convert it real fast to a toddler bed yet tonight.

What age did you move your kids? Dainie got moved at 14 months as we needed the crib for MyMy and we didn't want her to feel kicked out of her bed for the baby when she was born three months later.

Well, time to get the screwdriver. I hope I can do this without too much trouble.

We originally put Rhiana in the toddler bed at about 15 months (she was flipping her self out of her crib). That didn't work well because she wouldn't stay in her bed so we improvised her crib and she stayed in it for a few months. We tried the toddler bed again when she was about 20 months, at that time we had almost no problems. I guess she just wasn't completely ready at 15 months. Every child is different though. Hope it works out for you and MyMy.

All mine between 1 yr and 18 mths. We only did porta cribs with my last 2, cribs to me were just a pain anyways. lol

Have fun! I bet she'll just love her big girl bed.

Payton went to his toddler bed at 1 year, worked wonderfully for us. :) Hope she transitions well for you. :mrgreen:

I have to say i didn't move eldest out of cot till she was 2yrs and dd2 is still in it and just turned 2 and iam going to keep her in as long as i can lol , sorry that sounds really bad hehe it's just that i know if she was in a bed they'd both be up playing all night and thankfully none of them have ever attempted to escape if they had it would be a different story cos it's about saftey and you have to do what's best , i hope it all goes well and she get's settled into her new bed quickly:-D

They were 18 months and both transitioned well. Hope yours will have a good transition as well

Had to wait until Hubbs got home as the screws were too tight. I tried to get the girls to share Dainie's bed, but needless to say, it was party time! So, Hubbs got home at a quarter to ten, found the drill and we got it converted. MyMy then didn't like the change. She is like me, needs warning to adjust. We spent the next two hours walking her back to bed. She finally passed out at midnight thirty finally. Hubbs and I had a VERY VERY VERY late supper/snack and passed out at one. I'm not totally sure what time I woke up to find MyMy crawling up into bed next to me. At five thirty, the dog starts going crazy barking out in the living room. Hubbs gets up to check as Dainie is woken up by the dog to see what is going on. Turns out, I was babysitting today until two thirty or so. Which means I can't do naps today very well. Oh well, I needed to wash the kids' sheets anyway.

At first, MyMy kept getting up to turn on their bedroom light from her sister's bed. After several swats for that, we took the light bulb out. She kept getting up and trying the light and getting out of the room, so we had to lock the door from the inside after tucking her back in five times. She cried, and cried and cried. She finally stopped and I went to check and she had shoved the toys that were on the train table to the floor and had fallen asleep on the dolly pillow on it. I didn't wait long enough to move her and she woke up so then we played the escort back to bed thing. It was a long night. Hubbs closes again tonight (typical Friday and Saturday schedule) so I am left to deal on my own. Not looking forward to it. I don't remember the eldest making the adjustment so hard, but then, we talked it up for a week beforehand, let her go and choose a new sheet and blanket and made a big deal out of it. Hubbs said it took two weeks before she would stop crying to sleep behind the bedroom door. I guess I was too strung out on preggo hormones to remember.

Thanks. Hopefully we survive the next several nights. I need to go make more coffee.

aww ((hugs)) sounds like your doing a great job :mrgreen: I hope you get a better nights sleep.

How did she do last night Chrissyanna?

Hugs I hope it will just take time for you. You'll figure it out I'm sure.

We kept ours in their cribs until they were right around three years old! I just felt it was much safer. Yes, they did try to climb out a couple of times, but we heard them and dealt with it. Climbing out became an issue of discipline, just like other things we were dealing with at that time regarding yes's and no's; what they could and couldn't touch/play with; where they could and could not play in the house. Truly, they each only tried climbing out maybe one to three times. Scotty was once, and that did not go well for him at all. He got in HUGE trouble.

As far as moving them into toddler beds, I thought the concept was great, and they did eventually each move into one of sorts. But I didn't want toddlers wandering around our house while I slept. Just way too easy to sneak out and get into something potentially dangerous.

I hope everything is going well for you guys, Crystal! :-D

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I moved Rhyanne at 15 months and it was never an issue. She would get out of bed maybe once a night and get a different stuffed animal or book from her bookshelf and then go right back to bed. She never stayed up playing around and would just flip through a book until she fell asleep. I kept the monitors in her room even after she was in a toddler bed so I was able to hear everything that she did. Fortunately for me, she never spent much time at all out of bed so I never made a big deal of it and the transition worked very smoothly.

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We kept ours in their cribs until they were right around three years old! I just felt it was much safer. Yes, they did try to climb out a couple of times, but we heard them and dealt with it. Climbing out became an issue of discipline, just like other things we were dealing with at that time regarding yes's and no's; what they could and couldn't touch/play with; where they could and could not play in the house. Truly, they each only tried climbing out maybe one to three times. Scotty was once, and that did not go well for him at all. He got in HUGE trouble.

As far as moving them into toddler beds, I thought the concept was great, and they did eventually each move into one of sorts. But I didn't want toddlers wandering around our house while I slept. Just way too easy to sneak out and get into something potentially dangerous.

We did something more like this - our oldest was almost 3 when we moved him to a big boy bed and little ds moved when he was 2 1/2. Our boys do sleep together now even though ds's crib converts to a toddler bed, they just like to sleep together - sometimes they do try "party time" but as long they share a room, even if they are in separate beds, kids will try that (me and my sister sure did!), so that is a discipline issue like any other sibling discipline issue.

I hope last night went better for you guys!

Thanks everyone. MyMy is starting to get it. She has been a great sleeper since she started sleeping through the night, and will sleep in longer than her sister. Sunday night she was asleep when we got home from small group so she got tucked right into bed. She did wake up a bit when we got her sister down, but I just tucked her back in and made sure the cd player was on when I left and not a sound out of her until she came in this morning close to eight thirty nine. Tonight, she did cry a little when she got put down, but her sister had decided to throw a fit, and that didn't set well with her. They were both passed out and not a peep since about five after eight!!!!! In fact, I left them and got to to Target ALONE!!!!!!!! (64 count crayons on sale for two bucks, need I say more?) It was a nice hour to be gone. Alone. I went in to check on them a bit ago, and both were out and had kicked off the blankets so I covered them back up and restarted their lullabible cd and still not a sound. She likes being able to get in to her bed on her own now. And in the morning, the first thing the kids do is come in and get us up. Dainie normally goes for dad (she's such a daddy's girl) and MyMy comes in and wants about five minutes to snuggle. It is so sweet.

MyMy was more than tall enough to be moved out of the crib. She's taller than her sister at that age and could stand with her arm pits over the edge of the crib. In fact, they were like three inches above the top. Which is way above the height they say to take a kid out of a crib due to safety reasons.

The transition has gone better than I figured it would. Thanks for praying everyone.

fantastic , glad everything has gone well and there both settled in their beds.