No more sleeping in a cot for Edward! He’s been perfecting the art of trying to climb over the sides for a while but it was all a bit half-hearted so we didn’t worry about it too much, but the other day he called me into the bedroom (“Muuuum – c’m-here!”), told me to sit down on the bed (“Sit there.”) and then proceeded to climb over the side of his bed and landed head-first in my lap!

To our knowledge he hadn’t been trying to do that if we weren’t there, and we can only say that because he hadn’t landed in a heap on the floor between our bed and his – but the seed had been planted and yesterday afternoon when he woke up and called me, I arrived in the bedroom to find him half-way over the sides so that was it, decision made; the sides came off, the bottom feet taken off and his cot converted in a bed all in the blink of an eye (actually, it was more like half an hour). This was followed by lots of giggling and running up and down the length of his bed and jumping on and off it.

Then it was bedtime which went something like this…

• Drank milk and listened to bedtime stories on our bed
• Laid down on his bed and fidgeted around into favourite spot sleeping horizontally across the bed on the pillow
• Came to see where everyone was and said goodnight to Daddy and the dogs (again)
• Went back to bed and asked for more milk
• Daddy brought in more milk and read Smoke and Fluff (again)
• Went quiet for five minutes
• Called out at the door to see where everyone was
• Went quiet again after being told that everything was ok, everyone was still here and to go back to bed

By the end of Heroes we figured that he must have gone to sleep and took bets as to exactly WHERE he’d fallen asleep – he had gone back to bed and was back in his favourite position across the pillow. With such an unorthodox sleeping position comes a lot of fidgeting around (Edward is not a tidy sleeper, unlike Jack who tends to wake up in the same spot he went to sleep in, he’s much more like Ellie used to be – a real fidget PANTS!) and so we put one of the spare duvets on the floor between our bed and his so that it wasn’t such a hard landing if he did fall out in the night. We’ve also put a bolt on the inside of the door and the last one to bed has to lock us all in so that Edward can’t sneak off out of the bedroom and end up in the lounge on his own with the dogs – it gets more and more like Fort Knox here every day!

Well he didn’t fall out of bed which is quite amazing, woke up at 5am and had some milk, dozed until about 5.30am and then climbed up into bed with us where he stayed snoozing with Simon until he appeared in the lounge at about 7.30am (I got up at 6am as space was at a bit of a premium by then!).

So all in all it was a great success – now we’ll see what happens when it’s daytime and time for sleepy-snoozy! Could be interesting…watch this space.

Sarah x