Big Girl Bed, Round 2

We set up Emily's toddler bed back in January. We were wanting to get her settled in the toddler bed before Hannah arrived.  We tried it for a couple of days, but Emily just wasn't ready.  She was SO scared and cried and cried when we laid her down in the bed. After day two of this we decided she wasn't ready and started putting her back in the crib for night time and naps.  We decided to wait a few months and then try again.  Well, a few months turned into 5 1/2 months.  We didn't want to move her to the toddler bed right before we moved to Greenville, and then once we got to Greenville we wanted to give her a little time to adjust before moving her to the toddler bed!  

Emily's not a climber. She had never even tried to climb out of her crib, but we wanted Hannah (4 1/2 months) to have it, so after we had been here about a month we decided it was time to try again.  We had been talking to her about giving her crib to Hannah for weeks.  She was starting to get used to the idea, but I still wasn't sure how she would do.  One afternoon, as soon as she woke up from her nap, Bert took her crib apart and moved it into Hannah's room.  Emily watched him do it and told us all afternoon that she was going to sleep in the "big girl bed."  Here she is posing for me just after Bert had taken her crib apart. Doesn't she look like such a big girl!  

Emily has done GREAT!!!  She hasn't cried one time when we laid her down for nap or bed time.  She doesn't ever get out of her bed. We haven't told her once to stay in her bed, but she never gets out.  When she's ready to get up from nap or in the morning she just starts fussing or talking to us through the monitor so that we know to come get her.  I'm not sure that she knows she can get up, and I'm certainly not going to tell her that she can get up (you don't either:) )!!  She gets in and out of the bed all day long to play, but when we lay her down for a nap time or bed time she doesn't even try to get out....woohoo!!  

She likes all the blankets.  When we are getting ready to go lay her down she'll say "I go get snuggled up!" 

Hannah is enjoying the upgrade from the pack-n-play and Emily's loving her new bed....all is well here.  Next project....potty training!  I wonder if it will be this easy??:)