New Beds

Over the weekend I saw a post for a loft bed being sold in our town.   We have been working on getting Vivian out of the toddler bed into a twin bed, and since her room is small, it seemed like a great solution to keeping her room in tact, while up sizing her bed.  She is also our climber, so getting up and down seemed like it wouldn't be a problem.  It also simultaneously allowed Lanie to graduate from the crib to a toddler bed, and we could get rid of the crib.


So Chris picked up the bed on Sunday in his truck and we moved the beds, disassembled the crib, Chris reassembled the loft bed, etc.  At the last minute, I thought we should hang onto the toddler mattress Vivian had been using, just in case.  Meanwhile, Vivian was sick on Saturday and spent the entire day asleep, which started to morph into a cough.

The girls were both super excited about their beds, and Lanie kept telling us "come" and then taking us by the hand and showing us her bed.  She would periodically put herself to bed under her blankets.
However, Vivian looked at her bed and decided perhaps she would sleep in it "another time," and I put the toddler mattress on the floor under it. 

Come Sunday night, Lanie put herself to bed, then cried when we said, "good night," but stayed in her bed.  Vivian meanwhile passed out on the kitchen floor, so Chris put her in on her old toddler mattress under the loft bed.

Last night, Chris went back to work and Vivian decided to sleep in her loft bed.  She climbed up, went to sleep, and coughed for an hour and a half straight.  I climbed up the ladder and put Vicks on her feet and chest, put pillows under her head, turned on a humidifier and she continued to cough.  At 10:00 she was coughing so much she was crying, and I thought she was going to vomit on the high up bed, and I was standing on a chair next to her bed trying to talk her into coming down.   It took 10 minutes of negotiations to talk her into climbing out of the bed, she kept coughing and lying back down.  I finally got her to stop coughing and put her back to bed in my bed.  I fell asleep and at exactly 10:30, I heard a thump and Lanie crying, and found her upside down, feet still on the bed, on her head on the floor.  She was more indignant than hurt.  Obviously this woke Vivian up, so she immediately started coughing again.  We should probably have just left everything the way it was.

Although everyone actually slept after that, with periodic episodes of coughing.