Defying Gravity

Because Darrell and I are cheap lazy, we never installed a guard rail on William's big boy bed, even though we put him into a full-sized bed from the get-go. Instead, we've been using a foam pool noodle tucked under the fitted sheet, and aside from one incident the first night, it seems to be getting the job done. Well, a few days ago we washed his sheets, and realized at bedtime that we had forgotten to put the noodle back under the sheet. Since he thinks the noodles are the greatest toys ever, we really didn't want to pull it out right before bedtime and cause a major disruption, so we decided to forgo the noodle. After all, things had been going just fine and it seemed that he rarely drifted to the edge of the bed (except, of course, when intentionally crawling out during naptime), so what was there to be worried about? Apparently plenty.

How he didn't manage to fall all the way out is beyond us. We also have no idea if he had been trying to intentionally crawl out of bed and fell asleep partway through his efforts, or if he was just moving around in his sleep and managed to slide partway off the bed. Either way, we tucked the pool noodle back in first thing the next morning and haven't had any more gravity-defying stunts since then. Which I think we can all agree is a good thing.