Bad timing

When I first found out I was pregnant, we had about a million things to figure out. Many of these decisions came from the reality of adding another child without adding another bedroom. At first, the baby will be in our room and eventually she and Carter will share a room. We decided a few months ago that we would wait to transition Carter to a toddler bed until he adjusted to the baby, not wanting to overwhelm him with changes. After all, that was the one and only place we could really contain him and that is quite appealing with a newborn in the mix.

Apparently, Carter is not at all concerned about overwhelming us with changes. During yesterday's nap, Carter crawled out of his crib. We heard banging on the door followed by maniacal laughter and we knew right then we had a serious problem.

We're holding off the bed transition since today is technically my due date and any day now we're going to be spending a few nights in the hospital, leaving Carter with someone else. Our boy is wildly independent and stubborn and I have a feeling that crib to toddler bed transition is going to be tough. We don't want to send in someone else for that battle.

Fortunately, I bought a video monitor last week in preparation for the bed transition and the new baby. Serendipitous timing really, because now we can spy on him and make sure he isn't about to break free. Last night, he fell asleep just fine in his crib. Right before I went to bed, I went in to check on him. He was in bed, but he had somehow managed to wriggle out of his pajamas and was stripped down to his diaper. So, you win some, you lose some.