Bunking Up

Remember this post?

I am not sure what i was expecting at that point , i certainly was not expecting Rebecca to actually sleep all night in the bed alone …and on that point i have not been proved wrong .

On all other points i HAVE been wrong , the transition has been amazing and tonight for the 3rd night in the row my biggest little girl has put herself to sleep . For someone who has been rocked to sleep about 99% of the nights since she was born this is a big thing.

Our new night time routine goes something like this

- As before dinner/clean/bath/pjs etc..
- All 3 kids and i pile on to Eilidh’s bed for bedtime stories , i love this part . Something so cozy on the bottom bunk , we start by talking about what ever happened in school that day . We may read books or just make up stories , the girls get to decide (Ru sometimes joins in and sometimes plays around the room ) . Before it use to be read Eilidh a quick story while Rebecca and Ruaridh moaned .
- The girls climb into there own beds and go to sleep while i take Ru to my bedroom and feed him to sleep . Ok it is not as simple as that and to get Rebecca into her bed we talk about how i have to get Ru to sleep and when he is sleeping if she is still awake then she can come and snuggle us . Most nights i have to go and tell the girls to behave , what does it say about me that i find that cute?
Before after Eilidh went down i would feed Ru while Rebecca watched at least 2 episodes of her current faviroute show (Wow Wow Wubzy just now) then i would still have to do her bedtime stories and lie with her while she went to sleep . This could easily take an hour or so .

Guess what i am saying as not only is the new bedtime routine easier and quicker but it is less stressful and more fun for all of us .

So far the longest she is went in the bed is 5 hours before coming in with us , we have no concern with this at the moment . We are just so proud that she is sleeping at all in them.

Another little bonus has came from the bunk beds , do you realise just how much fun they can be to play on? But it is not just the bunk beds with its wonderful height and climbing ability (Ru loves to climb over the bottom headstand using a toy for leverage then shimmy out the bottom ladder ) but for some strange reason it has transformed the whole room into a play room . All 3 children are spending more time playing in there , choosing to take toys from else where and play in there . If seems for the first time that the kids room is really becoming a typical children’s bedroom and not just a room a few of them sleep in.

They really do love there new bed.