Big Boy Bed

Since a week before Christmas you've been sleeping in a toddler bed but for the past couple of months you had started getting out of bed as soon as I put you in it at night to go to sleep. This was VERY unusual behavior because you've always been the easier child to get to bed, whether it be naptime or bedtime!  We tried the whole Super Nanny concept of just taking you back to bed each time you got up without talking or showing any emotion to you and after a couple hours of doing that nonstop for several nights in a row, I thought that maybe you were just tired of the toddler bed and were ready for a bigger bed...a big boy bed. So, we got you a twin-size mattress set and moved Harlee's headboard into your room (I ordered her a pink upholstered headboard to go with her new bedding set/room color). Much to my dismay, this didn't necessarily solve the problem. You definitely don't get up as much as you were with the toddler bed but now I have to rock you to sleep and some nights you may wake up a couple of times. I think a lot of it has to do partly with some separation anxiety because you'll go back to sleep if you know that I'm standing next to your bed--not even patting your bottom. Of course, at 2 or 3 in the morning, standing beside your bed for 15 or 20 minutes is the last thing I want to do so I end up crawling in bed next to you and we'll both fall asleep. Most nights I'll wake up and return to bed with Daddy but some nights I have woken up in your bed the next morning. I know this is just a phase you're going through and I'll definitely take this phase over your "head-banging" phase!! Here are some pics of you in your bed the first night (your bedding hadn't come in at this point) and the last two are pics I took of you one night you refused to fall asleep--I had some stuff I had to get done so I didn't make you stay in bed but I couldn't rock you either so you got your blanket and laid down on the floor and yes, you ended up falling asleep right there!