Henry in his big boy bed!

Henry in his big boy bed!
Originally uploaded by hepcatrayo.

I know, I know ... he doesn't look too excited about this quite impressive milestone. That's just how he wakes up ... he gets it from his mother.

Over the weekend, we decided to have Henry try out his futon for naps, but keep the crib for night-night. He seemed pretty cool with it. The first day, he slept the normal nap time and we heard from him as soon as he woke up. Sunday, though, he took what I thought was a three hour nap. I'll never know for sure, though, because when I finally went up to wake him up, he was sitting down on the floor happily playing with his shoes. How didn't I hear him, you ask? Funny story, actually ...

I was getting the house ready for a cookout we were having with friends, so I was out doing yardwork. I had not planned on going in to get the monitor because I was just finishing up as Sarah left to do some teacher junk. At least she said it was teacher junk. Anyhoo, I was just putting all the gear away to start fixing the food when I noticed that my ... wedding ... ring ... was ... gone. PANIC! I looked around quickly to survey the scene, only to see a yard bag, filled with yard waste, staring ominously at me. It had to be in there. So I dumped the entire thing out again and starting wading, handful by handful, through ivy guts, plant clipping, myrtle shavings, dead leaves, and the bits of Christmas tree that must have fallen off on the way to the front curb (still there from January!). After searching through the WHOLE F'ING THING, I found my ring! I rejoiced, stapled the thing to my finger, cleaned up, and busted inside.

So anyhoo, Henry did great with the naps. Last night, to up the ante, he asked to sleep in the bed. So we tried it. After crossing our fingers, we awoke the next morning and Henry was good to go (except for the vacant expression and extreme displeasure at having his photo taken this early.

We'll see how it goes!