I spoke too soon

Never mind the previous post. Today has been a nightmare. Elliot has gone on a sleeping strike.

Sleeping like a baby

Elliot has been sleeping in his big boy bed for about a week now. It has been such an easy transition. I don't know why it has been easy maybe he is still young enough that he doesn't fully understand or maybe he has decided to skip this battle saving the energy for the next. Either way it has been cake and I am not complaining. He wasn't sleeping badly in his crib but I still had a few reasons to upgrade his sleeping situation. About once a night he would drop a pacifier (he only gets them in bed) and cry for us to come and get it. I thought if he could get out of bed himself he could pick up the dropped pacifier and get back in. I have learned that he is too asleep to know what is going on, but he has been dropping his pacifiers a lot less. In the mornings he would sit quietly in his crib waiting for Steven or I to come get him. This made me feel bad because I am not a morning person and Steven leaves early for work on weekdays so I didn't know how long he was sitting there waiting to play with his toys. That is usually the first thing he would do when I lifted him to the ground is run to his toy box and pick up a toy that he had been eyeing from his crib. His room is baby proofed so I figured if he gets up and wants to play let him. This concept of getting himself out of bed in the morning has been a slow one for him to grasp. He will still be sitting in is bed in the mornings when I walk in. He stands up hands me his pacifier and says "up". But I don’t have to feel bad because now it is his choice to still be in bed not mine. He is however starting to make the connection that he can get himself out of bed. At 3am last night I heard him playing with toys I wanted to see what he would do so I let him play. When I checked on him at 4:30am he had fallen back to sleep on the floor next to his bed. Hopefully next time he will take that extra effort to climb back into bed, either way he is learning.
When I was looking for pictures of Elliot in his crib I realized that we have no proof that he ever slept in it. But here are some pictures I found of him sleeping.