I'm almost hesitant to post this - I don't want to jinx a thing - but I've gotten a slew of emails from you mamas and daddies wanting to know how the switch to the big boy bed went.

It seems to have been the way to go.

First night in the bed - getting him down was a struggle, but it usually is. Slept from 9 to 5, woke up for water, brought him into our room and slept until 7.

Two nights ago - went down easy at 8. Slept until 2, wanted water, snuggled with him in his bed, was out cold in about 10 minutes (and so was I). Snuck off back to my own bed about 1/2 hour later, and he slept - are you ready for this? - until 8 am. This kid has a internal alarm clock that rings - seriously - at 6:58 am every morning. It's bizarre how he knows that it's 7.

Last night - he practically put himself to sleep in the bed, but that's because he had one 15-minute nap all day. Slept until I startled him with the closet door at 10, and then slept through until 7 am this morning, when he got up, drank some water on his own and then started playing until he heard me behind the door. Jay said the bottle was in his bed this morning, which means he may have gotten up in the middle of the night and gotten water on his own instead of crying for one of us to hand the bottle to him.

He seems to do much better because in some weird way, he seems to have more room, even though the mattress is the same exact mattress. He loves climbing up on it with a book and seems to enjoy vegging out on it. There was no fight or struggle or crying for his crib at all - I don't think he even noticed. And the best part? While we love snuggling with him in our bed, bringing him in in the middle of the night was disruptive for all of us. Now, we can snuggle with him in his bed until he falls back asleep and then creep back into our own room. Good stuff.

Those of you considering it - it's worth a shot! And if it doesn't work right now, you can just put the crib back for a while. I'm not sure how we knew Sammy was ready, we just knew the crib wasn't working anymore - it never really did for us, and really, we needed to try something!

Next step - move those naps from the swing to the bed... though we'll probably wait until we're in a routine with Eli before we try that.