Yesterday we took a very big step in our family, one Bobby and I had been *very* nervous about – we got Sophie a big girl bed.
“What?” you say? “Sophie has been three years old for almost three months, and she was not in a big girl bed? SCANDAL!”
It’s true, you see, we kept Sophie in a crib because she slept all night, every night, and we were WAY afraid to mess with that. However, she is three. And we want to move her towards being a “big girl”. And since she put the ix-nay on the otty-pay a couple weeks ago, we are starting with the big girl bed.
We said “bye-bye” to her crib after she got up yesterday. We skipped nap time as Daddy was still working on getting her furniture re-arranged. When we showed her the bed, she pretty much ignored it. She wouldn’t sit on it, because I think she was afraid we were going to make her go to sleep!
At bedtime, we read her books and then I left the room as I always do, while Daddy sang to her and snuggled her. I watched on our video monitor as he left the room.
She was out of bed before he even got downstairs. D’oh!
He went back up and put her back in bed.
Ditto. She was really “exploring her new space” – getting on and off both sides of the bed, trying to get her bedroom door open…
This continued for a while, until Bobby just waited outside her door. When he heard her get up, he opened the door and told her to get back in bed. She always obeyed, and never fussed! Finally he was able to come back downstairs and watch “Sophie theatre” with me. We watched as she got up one last time. This time, she got UNDER the bed! And proceeded to just LAY there. We giggled at her for a couple of minutes, until we decided we really didn’t want her to spend her first night in a big girl bed UNDER the big girl bed. So Bobby went back one more time, and tucked her in again. This time, she gave up and went to sleep IN her bed. This was about 10 pm. I wasn’t sure what the night would bring, but we did not hear a PEEP out of her until she woke up at 8:20 this morning!!! I was SO PROUD and grateful, I nearly couldn’t take it.
My baby is a big girl!
I love her SO MUCH!
