My little Ellie girl is sleeping in her toddler bed right now. We bought one a few weeks back from a lady on Craigslist. It is really cute, but it needs to be painted to match the rest of her furniture. Anyway, it's been sitting in her room with blankets on it for the past few weeks. She occasionally plays on it, but that's about it. Ben is gone tonight "jamming" with the guys, and I played with Ellie in her room. She kept climbing into her toddler bed and laying down. In fact, she wanted to do everything in it tonight...read books, play with her farm house, play with teddy. So, I thought, "well, maybe she wants to try it out!" So, I put her down in the toddler bed tonight. She's been asleep since 7:30 (it's now 8:48).
I have mixed feelings:
1. How long is this going to last? I keep expecting to see her little face pop through my door at any minute, with a charming "mama!" She may be back in her crib before long. If so...that's okay!
2. This is my baby and I feel kinda sad that she is not in her crib. She's slept in it since day 1. I know she has to grow up eventually, but it's still a bit sad, and happy, all at the same time.
On another note, Ellie has taken a fancy to repeating whatever Ben says. I suppose we need to be more careful now about the words we speak. So far this week, she has repeated "butt-hole" and "munch" (from the latin root-word butt-munch). I think we are going to have to limit the number of times we use the word "douche" as well. This could be hard :)
9 comments:
oh how cute!
i really like her new vocabulary skills :) hehe..
so, did she last all night?
we never had luck with toddler beds:(
She woke up at 11. But she's been doing that lately :( She's been a pain in the butt during the night because she hasn't had a consistent schedule (because of the holidays). If she's interested tonight, I will definitely do it again! I think she liked feeling like a "big girl".
We used the baby gate to keep Morgan in her room if she got out of it. We used the super nanny technique when she got out.
i remember that oh too well. i don't think i slept well at first when they transitioned out of the crib but then with gates in place all things harmful out of reach it became easier especially on my back.
my baby girl is at the tweener stages and i won't even go into all the emotions there but i will say this,
parenting is not for cowards!!
That is so true. The first night I had a hard time sleeping. I felt like I "should be doing something". So funny. We're on day 4 now...she loves her bed. No midnight bedside surprises yet! :)
I wish she didn't wake up at 3am
this is funny!
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