wantingababymaas-Bleacher-Report: Sheets.

Since last week I swore we'd be ankles deep in toddler beds by now, I had gotten some stuff for the transition. However since the kiddos have remained with both feet in for over a week now, I'm back on the hold off as long as possible bandwagon. I cherish my sleeper-inners!

One of the things I needed for toddler beds was some top sheets. Thus far the kiddos haven't really slept with top blankets per-say. They always have a blankie or lovie or what have you. (Along with a whole host of other things they insist on dragging into bed on various nights) We just have always run a space heater in their room & kept it plenty warm so they wouldn't need them. Its never been an issue. But if they are going to be free in their room... that just will not do. 3 toddlers playing with a space heater = no bueno! So I decided we'd just start working on sleeping with top sheets & blankets & pillows. So when the time does come (in the hopefully distant future) we'll be a little more prepared. Maybe this will help them not toss & turn & sleep every which way in bed? Right now they would so fall out of a toddler bed 1000 times a night. I've tried pillows with them before, pillow pets I guess, and although they like them to be in their beds, they usually opt not to use them as pillows. However, this time I found them the 3 flattest old pillows in our house I could find... and I think they are just the perfect fluff height for them.

That all sounds great, right?

Problem!!: You can not buy top sheets for cribs. This would remain a problem if we were in toddler type beds right now too. Because our cribs covert to a daybed type toddler bed, so thats what we will be doing when the time comes. So again no top sheets to be found on those Walmart shelves. I refuse to go out & buy some spendy toddler bedding set. (Those exist right?) Because I am not re-doing their room in this house. (Some day we'll move right?) And our crib sheets are in just fine condition. And someday when we do move, I intend on getting 3 twin size beds for their new rooms anyways. And hopefully seperating them to boy & girl rooms. Then they can pick out their bedding & all that cutsie jazz.

So whats a mom to do?

Solution: A twin sheets cut in half widthwise & hemmed = 2 perfect size crib/toddler bed top sheets!! So our bottom sheets & top sheets don't match. So every other top sheet has a wider hem down one side (that is supposed to be at the top of a normal bed). So I used white thread when the rest of the thread in the sheet was either green or pink. Who cares? I have 3 toddlers, our house is organized chaos from top to bottom. Sheets schmeets. And while I don't claim to be a craft-tastic mom. Or in any way shape or form talented with a sewing machine. I'm pretty proud of my creations, simple as they are.

Had my sewing machine needle not broken mid the first sheet, sewing them would have been a complete breeze. Yes sewing machine needle broke. How does that even happen?? I've sewn like 5 things since I got it last Christmas. I'm apparently a rough-sewer? Oh well. At least I learned how to change a sewing machine needle!!

We slipped some cases on those pillows. Threw some quilts over the sheets for a little extra warmth, and though they are not really big enough like a comforter, they will do just fine. And we have ourselves a some nice little toddler cribs!

Tonight when they hit the hay in their new sheet'd, quilt'd & pillow'd beds, they really hit.the.hay. I heard not a peep & I swear they didn't move an inch. Must feel nice being all snug-as-a-bug?! Or maybe its the old mommy & daddy smelling pillows they adore? Or the awesome quilts made for us from my mommy's bestie?

Hayden (look at how much of his crib rail he chewed up!!)