Big Girl Bed

We have officially moved Lily from her crib into her "big girl" room and bed! We wanted to move her before Amelia's arrival to try to give her time to adjust. We have been talking it up to her for several days now, and she has seemed very excited about this. So, after bath time last night, we got her dressed and read her Bible to her in her new room. I gave her a kiss, said I love you (to which she always replies "too;" talk about precious), turned out the light and left Ryan to put her in bed.

Like always, they said their prayers and talked for a few minutes before he put her down. She waited a minute after he left and then started crying which is very unusual; she usually goes right to sleep in her crib. We thought maybe the pillow was bothering her because it's a little thick, so Ryan went in, removed the pillow and calmed her down. He walked out again, and she started crying again. However, after only a minute or so, she calmed down and just looked around. For about 20 minutes or so, she looked around and occasionally called out, but then she fell fast asleep!

We heard her twice during the night (only because we had turned the monitor up) but she immediately went back to sleep after a couple of seconds; we never had to go in to check on her. I watched the monitor from 8 until 9 this morning and she appeared to be asleep. At 9 I saw her playing with her socks so I went in before she started to fuss. I told her how proud I was of her and what a great job she did sleeping in her bed all night. She would say "Yea!" or "Yes!" and we clapped for her. She was so proud of herself! Hopefully she will continue to do so great at bedtime!

As I suspected, nap time today was a different story. Lily doesn't like to quit playing for a nap and she usually cries for about 5 minutes when I put her in the crib. However, today I said "it's time for a nap in your big girl bed!" and she readily agreed. When we got in there though, she started crying. I put her in bed and in wiping her eyes (a sure sign she's tired), she poked herself so I went back in to make sure her eye wasn't bleeding (she was screaming "EYE!"). After a minute, I put her back down, and she immediately started crying...hard. I went to our room to get the monitor, and when I looked at it, she was walking on her bed to the end of it by the door! I went running back in there because I didn't want her to fall over the end of the bed trying to get to the door, and I didn't want her to realize she can easily slide off the end of the bed where the railing leaves an opening. When I opened the door though, she had already laid back down. I tried calming her down but she kept saying "out!" so I picked her up and we looked through her Bible (she only likes Ryan to read it to her; she likes for me to show her the pictures). After a minute, I told her it was time to nap and put her back down. She spent the next 25 minutes crying, screaming ("MOMMMMMMMMY!") and kicking the wall. Finally, probably out of pure exhaustion, she fell asleep. We'll see how well the nap goes.

As I have always said, I will handle anything during the day as long as I can sleep at night. Hopefully she will continue to sleep well at night and will soon learn to accept nap time too. I'll let you know!