The big boy bed is a hit

This big boy bed is really working out.  Alex absolutely loves it.  When he wakes up in the morning or from a nap, he'll usually stay in bed for a while, just chillin', then he'll get up and come find me.  Sometimes he just won't get out of bed at all, and I have to go into his room several times tempting him with yogurt or fruit snacks or his singing duck puppet.

Tonight he actually put himself to bed.  We were walking down the hall to his room, I was fully expecting to have to rock him for 10 minutes or so, but no, he just got into bed, laid down and stayed there.  I stood in his room in shock for a while, thinking any minute he'll get up and start jumping on the mattress, but nope.  He went right to sleep.  Weird.

There is still the worry of him getting up in the night and roaming the house unsupervised.  He can open doors, so closing his bedroom door won't keep him in if he really wants out.  We do have a security system with motion sensors, so if he trips those, it would wake us up, but he may be too little for them to detect him.  He's generally a great sleeper, only waking up in the night if he's sick or has a bad dream.  When he's sick, we usually just have him sleeping in our bed anyway, and I'll hear him crying from a bad dream before he can ransack the house.  He's been sleeping in this bed all week and hasn't gotten up yet, so here's hoping it won't be a problem.  I really think it's more likely he'll come get in our bed with us if he gets up in the night anyway.  I hope.