Big boy bed!

We put Connor in his big boy bed this past Friday night for the first time! It was a little rough at the beginning, but he is doing so well we are amazed! Friday night he stood by the door and cried and screamed for an hour and a half. Mark REALLY wanted to go in and rock him, but I stayed firm and we didn't go in (except for about 30 seconds after we left the first time - he was crying so hard he couldn't breath and was choking - and screaming mama just to make it worse for me... so we went in and laid him down one more time, but didn't go in again after that). Looking back I have no idea how I got super mommy strength to not go get him when he was crying. I was thinking about it and made myself sad...
Anyways - Saturday nap time was also rough. I basically stood outside the door for an hour staring at the monitor and everytime he got up I opened the door and he would lay back down. Eventually he stopped trying to get up and fell asleep.
Saturday night went amazingly well! He laid in bed and didn't fall asleep for over an hour, but didn't cry and didn't try to get up!
Everytime he lays down, nap or bedtime, he always says, "no cry". It was cute at first, like he was reminding himself and telling me about it, but now it just makes me sad! Mark reminded me he is not putting on a brave face, if he wanted to cry he certainly would, but he just remembers me saying it on Friday night, I guess.
Obviously it is still a work in progress - it took him 2 and a half hours to fall asleep for his nap today, but I think overall he is doing awesome!

So we have all the nursery furniture in Kate's room and I am READY for her to arrive!! 6 more weeks! We have a lot to do before she arrives, but we are marking things off the list all the time. Mark painted Connor's blue night stand pink yesterday! And we got a vinyl application decoration thing to put on her wall in the mail. Hopefully we get it up soon!