Mattress shopping.

Turner has been upgraded to a queen size bed in our new house. He did not complain about the 3/4 bed, but we figure the larger bed will be more comfortable for guests. We threw away the mattress set for the 3/4 bed after I did the math and realized my folks bought nearly fifteen years ago.

Turner and I went mattress shopping yesterday and today, searching for the right firmness/softness for the 3/4 bed, to go in the sunroom. Turner's loved being with a distracted mom in a room full of beds that are just waiting to be bounced on. At the first store it seemed the beds called out to him. Even after I reprimanded him for jumping on the bed, he felt compelled to bounce. Though he offered an articulate distinction between bouncing and jumping that made me approach restriction more rhetorically in the second store. In it, I gave him a location where he could waller (as my grandma would call it) on all of the beds, but his feet could not leave the top of the bed. This rule doesn't allow for bouncing or jumping. Eventually, of course, he became quite creative and had his feet barely on the bed as he stretched other parts of his body to nearby mattresses. He fell a few times, which enhanced the danger I believe.

It was in this store, where they sell organic mattresses that will knock your socks off, that Turner experienced a Tempurpedic mattress. He lay down and let out this huge exhale, "Ahhhhhhhh!" The only other customer, thankfully, was a grandmother-type and she laughed so hard at his innocence and personality.

"Oh Mom. You gotta try this one. Oh my goodness. This feels SO good. Oh Mom, come on now. Lay on this one."

I stretch out beside him, my fiftieth mattress in two days. It does feel good, but not nearly as awesome as the $4000 organic set. But, I like soft.

"Wow. This feels great. I think this is the kind of mattress PK and Mer have."

He shoots out of the bed like lightning. "WHAT! They have this mattress at home?"

"I think so. I mean, their set is huge though. Like a king size."

"No way!" Total disbelief. I laugh.

"Um, yeah."

He climbs off the bed and we walk to the door. "Well I just. must. spend the night there sometime with Uncle Pat Pat's bed."