Beds, Blankets, and Beyond...

This week we decided to get Chloe her very own toddler bed.  Although her and Cooper both still co-sleep with us, we noticed a need for Chloe to have her own bed.  The reason being...she is literally obsessed with beds. 

Don't ask me why because I have no clue, but since "our" bed IS her bed she's become very protective of it (so to speak) since we moved into our new house.  She asks to go in our room and "sita bed" (in her words) several times a day to watch a movie.  She'll take her drink, usually in a "baba" (which we're still trying to break her of...) and climb up in the bed by herself and watch TV.

The protective part comes in anytime anyone else needs to use that room or sleep in there.  We also have Brodie's crib in there, so if he falls asleep and we go to put him in his bed, all the sudden Chloe wants HER bed.  Even if she was previously pre-occupied with something else.  She had this like "sixth sense" that goes off when anyone's going in "her" room LOL  So we'll have Bro asleep and she starts screaming, "MY BED! SITA BED!  UNT (want) MY BED!" which of course half the time wakes Brodie up.  Or, heaven forbid Cooper falls asleep and we try to put him IN "her" bed....oh heck no!  So usually we put Coop to bed in his bed, but we've obviously found the need for Chlo to have her own bed.

So...we went out and bought her her very own Princess bed.  She LOVES the Disney Princesses so we figured this would be perfect and she'd could get absolutely hooked on it, just like she's hooked on our bed. We got the bed and the Princess bedding set and got Coop a Toy Story bedding set too. 

Then we decided they could both use the own space too.  Our new place has three bedrooms: a master, a smaller room in the middle, and a larger bedroom on the other end of the house.  When we first moved in, we originally wanted to keep their toys and beds, well Cooper's bed, in one room, so of course we picked the bigger room as their room.  Then we were just going to keep the small middle room for storage and an extra room with a futon in it.  Well after we got the beds we decided to set both their beds up in the middle room with their own TV and keep the other room on the end as a toy room, so we moved the futon into the toy room and the beds and TV into the middle room.

Of course they didn't spend the night in their new room, but they DID hang out in their and watch their favorite movie, Frosty the Snowman. LOL  They definitely "like" their beds, but as soon as the newness wore off....guess who's bed was back to being Chloe's favorite?  Yep...ours. LOL

She doesn't mind going in and playing on her bed or watching a movie in there, but when she's cranky and wants peace and quiet, she still heads right for our room LOL

Oh and yesterday we had Uncle Larry and cousins Sean and McKenna come by to bring us some hand-me-down toys, and neither of the big kids had had a nap, so during their visit of course Chloe headed for our bed.  Snow White was on and turned out cousin McKenna LOVES Snow White so McKenna climbed up in bed with Chlo....ugh yeah...all "you know what" broke loose.  Chloe freaked out.  There was no way she was letting someone else in HER bed.  Needless to say Josh had to calm her down and tell her to play nice and a few minutes later they were laying together sharing Goldfish crackers LOL

So the bed idea was a "half" bust, but the toy room is working out great.  Well until today...I was making lunch and I thought Cooper was watching Robin Hood on his bed.  After a few minutes I got that "mommy feeling" like something's up and decided to check on him.  Low and behold he was in the toy room with the baby powder...again.  If I thought the chair thing was bad, THAT was nothing.  He had dumped the ENTIRE thing of lavender scented baby powder ALL OVER the entire toyroom.  Then my dumb self decided to try to vacuum it up...yeah.  The vacuum just blew baby powder throughout the entire room, getting it on the few final things that hadn't gotten hit by Cooper.  Then Cooper says, "Booper make mess.  May-me (maybe) an accident?"  I said, "No.  I think it was on purpose."  He says, "Yeah.  On purpose.  That funny huh?" LOL

Then his new thing, besides differentiating between "on purpose" and "on accident", and usually in HIS favor LOL, is "no problem".  Since we've been potty training we've had a couple accidents of course.  He prefers to run around bottomless instead of wearing a diaper, and makes it to the potty almost every time.  He prefers to pee on his training toilet, but he likes to poop on the big potty.  Well today the bathroom door ended up closed somehow and he couldn't reach the handle to open it to poo, so he had a very small accident on the toy room floor.  That poor toy room got a beating today huh?  Guess it was a good thing the baby powder was AFTER the poo, so it could help with smell.  Well anyway, when he has accidents and try to make sure he doesn't feel guilty or ashamed so I keep saying, "Don't worry.  It's no problem."  Hence his new thing, "no problem", which is what he told me after the poo accident and what he told Josh about getting his gym clothes out of Josh's gym bag.  I needed them to put  in the wash and Josh went to get them, but Cooper says, "No problem.  Booper get em." LOL

And last, but not least, we of course need an update on little Bro.  He is EXTREMELY close to walking.  He is "walking" between furniture and if he's holding onto something and sees something out of reach that he wants he thinks about walking, but chickens out LOL  Josh and I have been holding his hands and trying to get him to walk between us, but he gets too excited and leans forward before moving his feet, so he falls.  Oh, AND.....he's begun falling to sleep all by himself.  We used to hold him and give him a bottle and he'd usually fall asleep on the bottle, but he's now starting fighting that.  He doesn't want us holding him with a bottle at all.  We just lay him in his crib, he holds his own bottle, and falls asleep.  And during the night when we wakes up, we just give him a bottle and he goes right back to sleep.  Sometimes he even puts himself to sleep without the bottle.  He'll drink a little of it and then I can hear him in the room playing and making noises and within a few minutes he's alseep.

Well I guess that's about it for now.  Not like it wasn't a lot LOL  Thanks for checking in everyone!  Be back soon with more updates, tales, and adventures from the Poston Fam!