Transition out of crib: skip the toddler bed

Once our kids started to show an inter­est in climb­ing I switched to the pack and play which seems to be harder to climb out of, and by approx 18 months they were in mat­tresses on the floor — which seem safer than tod­dler beds to me, and are more com­fort­able on nights when one of us ended sleep­ing with a lit­tle one to ease the tran­si­tion. They are now 2 and 4 and we still haven’t both­ered with a tod­dler bed. We’ll prob­a­bly keep their mat­tresses on the floor until they are ready for bunk beds