Y3W: Big Bed Update

I knew the day was coming where Emma would need to get out of her crib and into a big girl bed.  Believe me when I say I was not ready for it to happen!  She's always been a great sleeper and only climbed out of her crib a couple of times. I figured if there wasn't a problem, why rush it?

We got Emma's bed from my cousin and it probably sat in the hallway outside of Emma's room for at least a month.  Patrick was ready to put it up the day we brought it home. Me? Nope! I had excuse after excuse, reason after reason.  I don't know why, maybe I feel like that's just the one thing left of them being babies.

With our third baby being due this summer, I knew that we needed the crib for him or her and that we should probably move Emma into the new bed soon just in case it took her awhile to get use it it.  So? I gave Patrick the okay to take down the crib and put up the new bed.

Posing with the crib before it came down

At first, I think Emma was pretty excited.  Though she was a little confused because she would always tell me, "Ava" when we talked about the bed in the hall because it belonged to Ava for so long. She also thought it was pretty cool that it was princess! She was a big helper to Patrick and wanted to carry the pieces in with him.

 

It was all fun and games while Patrick was putting the bed together...

 

 

But...once it was all put together, she didn't want to get on it.  It could have been that she was afraid that I would make her go to sleep if she sat down, I don't know.  Finally (after a while) she sat down so I could get her picture with her new bed.

 

We were good...until it was bedtime.

She would not get in it.  She kept telling me, "Keddy, Keddy", as in take that damn bed back to Aunt Kelly's and give me my good ole crib back!!  We finally agreed that we would rock for a couple minutes and then she had to get in it, but I would rub her head until she fell asleep.  She was still scared when I laid her down, but for the most part she stayed in it as long as I was next to her.

She looks nervous in these pics

After a few minutes of convincing her to lay still and me rubbing her little head, she fell asleep. Shew!!

Since then she's gone to bed easier, as long as I leave her bedroom door open, which we didn't have to do before and she comes to visit me at least once a night now.  She goes back down pretty easily, as long as you leave that door open.

One thing I really miss is that she was always a really good sleeper, I'm talking 7:30-7:30 (at least) and now she is up and in our room or Aiden's around 6-6:30.  Sigh...There goes the one that we had that was a great sleeper...

So that's how the big girl bed transition went...it's been a big adjustment for us both! :-)

Emma's Got a Boo-Boo

Emma discovered a new talent a week or two ago...climbing out of her crib.  Already?!?!

I was really hoping she would get over it and not think it was such a big deal after the first couple of times.  That didn't happen.  And she's stealthy about it! I turn the monitor up so I can hear her and nothing, but when I go up, there she is not in the crib, usually doing something she shouldn't be.

One day she got the baby q-tips and pulled the cotton off the end of all of them. I still don't know how she got the box of them. She's good.  Another day she had completely emptied the cabinet in her changing table.  At least a couple times I've found her in her closet reading books, good to know she doesn't always go for the naughty choice.  We have always run a noise machine in her room and 2 mornings I've been woken up because she's climbed out and turned it up as high as it would possibly go.  I guess that's better than the annoying alarm clock sound!

The other day when she was napping I was downstairs catching up on a show when I heard a huge BANG and then a scream.  I've never moved so fast up those stairs! When I got there she was laying flat on the floor, her head closest to the crib.  I'm guessing on her way out, she slipped and flipped over and out onto the floor.  Yikes!

Everything appeared to be okay, though she clung to me for quite awhile after that.  Her nose had a little red spot and I just figured she must have bumped it.  Well as a couple of days have passed that little red spot has turned into an ugly little boo-boo. Poor honey! Good news is since then she hasn't climbed out of the crib. That could be because at every little sound I'm up there to make sure she's still in there.

I know we should probably convert her to the toddler bed before she gets hurt again or worse, but she's only 17 months! I'm not ready for that battle yet! So here's to keeping my fingers crossed that she's scared herself enough to stay put for a few more months!!

Poor, sweet little nose :-(