Bedroom

We are slowly transitioning from a family bed to Cooper sleeping in his bed in his room. We have had his bed on the floor in our room for the last few months and he has been sleeping in it every night. Typically he will wake up sometime in the middle of the night and climb in our bed for the remainder of the night. We have talked to him about sleeping in his room and he kept saying he would do that when he is 5 years old. Well Sunday we decided to go for it and we put his mattress on the floor in his room. It's a great spot under his loft and it doesn't take up that much space. He's slept in there twice so far. Monday night he told Sharon very seriously, "Mama, I think we should sleep the other night in your bed and the other night in my bed so Mommy won't be lonely." Mondays I have band practice so I wasn't home when he went to sleep. Monday he slept with us and Tuesday he slept in his bed until 3:30 am. Tonight he is in our bed. We are doing this slowly and it is working for us. I have found that I don't sleep if Sharon is home and not in the bed (Sunday night she slept for half the night with Cooper in his bed). I also found that I can't sleep too well when Cooper isn't in our room. I woke up last night at 3:00 because I thought I needed to check on him. I ended up not checking on him and he woke up thirty minutes later to pee. We are having Riley sleep with him because we know she would bark if something happened. Riley is not too happy about this arrangement, her herding instincts and desire for us to be all together are making her anxious. But she is doing it (well she can't leave his room because she won't walk through the hallway with the floor vents, so really we are trapping her in there :)