The dreaded bed

Well, Saturday night the ‘sleep on the top bunk’ went just peachy. Evidently there was a nightmare around 12am that I slept through (have I mentioned that I'm dead as a log and all those mixed metaphors when I sleep?) but otherwise S slept awesome in his new top bunk. And he didn't want to sleep on the bottom because "that's Henry's bed", even though Henry won't be able to sleep in said bed for at least a year.

Last night he went to bed on the top bunk pretty well too. I was out on my evening run, but he was asleep when I got back, and Hubby said that he went to bed fairly easily and only got up to take his 5-minutes-after-he-gets-in-bed potty break. But then I went in to check on him before I went to bed and he was asleep on the bottom bunk! I thought that maybe he was just too tired to climb back up, but then I had this conversation with him Monday morning:

Me: So why did you sleep on the bottom bunk last night?
S: Because the top bunk is scary (he said this in Caillou's cadence, and I knew exactly what happened.)
M: But don't you like the top bunk? That's your big bed, and you're a big boy!
S: Yeah, I'm a big boy but I'll sleep on the bottom with Henry.

When we decided to get bunks, I told my husband this: I hope Spencer likes them and isn't scared, because Caillou was scared of the bunk beds and ended up sleeping on the bottom bed with Rosie (yes, I've seen too much of that dern show)

And whadaya know.

We installed a light up on the top so he can read in bed without disturbing Henry, and we tried again on Monday, and he slept fine up there Monday and Tuesday night. Honestly, I don't care if he sleeps on the bottom for now, but I don't want him to be scared. I want him to relish having his own space in a room that is very cramped while we wait out the time spent with a bed/crib both in the room. This morning when I was leaving for work he went “to go look at his bed” so obviously he likes it.

Stupid Caillou. I hate that animated child.