All children in the house are potty trained and sleeping in big beds!! Admittingly, not every diaper has been eradicated from the house (pull-ups are great in case of intestinal viruses). But Thursday night, Elektra slept in her big girl bed for the first time.
This has been an interesting issue; Elektra genuinely liked her crib. I think she liked the security and familiarity of it, and she was making zero effort to climb out of it. It really was her space. But she also wanted a big girl bed like DJ's big boy bed. I've been asking her for months now, "Do you like your crib?" "Yes!" "Do you want a big girl bed?" "Yes!" I really think she was happy with either option.
On Thursday night, we put her bed together, added the new memory foam mattress we'd had delivered, put on a set of clean sheets (not the sheets she selected; I hadn't washed them yet), and you'd have thought she'd won the lottery. She was SO excited. She told DJ that her bed was just like his bed! The headboards are a little different in styling and the color overall is a little different, but the bed frames are the same (has drawers and is a platform bed). She went to bed with THE BIGGEST GRIN on her face we'd EVER seen.
On Friday, while Elektra was at daycare, I washed her Minnie Mouse sheets and her new coral colored fleece blanket. I added her new Minnie Mouse reversible comforter, and made her bed. She had a choice between Disney princess and Minnie Mouse, and she picked Minnie Mouse. Considering how much she likes the Disney princesses, she's always like Minnie Mouse, too, so the choice really was a toss up.
Elektra was SO excited about her new bedding that she asked to go to bed immediately. It was 6:30pm. We said no, of course, but it wasn't hard to get her to go to bed!! I told her to sleep as long as she could, that she could get up to go potty whenever she needed to and that if the sun is awake when she wakes up, she can come into our room. Or she could play with her dollhouse if she liked.
At 8:30 this morning, there was no sign of Elektra. DJ had wandered in at 6:15am, and I was surprised his coming down the hall didn't elicit her getting out of bed. Instead, I found her still in her bed, happily hanging out under the covers! What a good girl!!!
Tonight, we rearranged her room to better suit the furniture in it. During that rearrangement, we also installed the Disney Princess and Castle lamp that her Nouna and Nouno gave her this past Christmas. She LOVES LOVES LOVES it. LOVES. When it was time for bed tonight, she was really upset when it was time to turn off this lamp.
I still have lots to do, like clean out her closet to make it more her room than a nursery that stores lots of baby stuff, but that's tomorrow's task. She doesn't care what's in her closet. But it's all part of MY transition of accepting that my baby girl is a big girl now!
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