The Progression

So once upon a time... we decided to buy Zeke a twin bed, and we fretted about how the transition would go.  The time had come: a baby was on the way, ready to steal the crib, and Zeke had learned how to escape the crib, head first.  Still, we were nervous.  To our pleasant surprise the transition was remarkably easy.  Zeke loved his big bed and had no trouble sleeping in it (can you see where this is going?).  Not only would he sleep just fine in his bed but he wouldn't even get out of it, ever. After he would wake up he would sit there on his bed and call for us.  Then we'd come up and he'd climb down.

Then one day, it all changed. 

Zeke overheard us telling somebody how incredible it is that he never climbs out of his bed.  The VERY next day, you guessed it.  (Smart kid, eh?). 

See stage one: under the bed

Followed up quickly by stage two: sleeping by the door. He slept here every bedtime/naptime for weeks, we couldn't even open the door to peak at our little sleeper, except by sneaking a camer around the door.

Then we felt guilty because Zeke started saying "no lock door."  The lock disappeared with the admonition that he still needed to stay in his room.  He sort of obeyed.  see stage 3

That lasted a while, but then we hit stage 4: slowly creeping down the hall.  It was quite adorable really, he would bring his pillow, several blankets, his bedtime toys and set up his little bed in the hallway every night. 

I don't have a picture of the next one, but Zeke requested to sleep on the stairs.  Strangely, I said no.  This coupled with the fact that nap and bedtime were all preceded by several hours of playing and running around the hall and opening and closing his door and then finally falling asleep in the hallway  which meant walking on pins and needles from the rest of us and eliminating the possibility of Trustin and I watching movies in the living room after bedtime and premature ends to naptime if the phone rang led to the decision that Stage 2 (lock on the knob and kid sleeping by the door) was a rather lovely stage.  It has returned.