Big girl bed...

Well Sunday, October 3rd we took the plunge and took the rails off of Riley's bed pretty much cold turkey...and it all went well!

She watched Jason take everything off and was SOOOOO excited about her big girl bed...it was as if we had bought her a whole new bedroom of furniture...glad it's the simple things that make her so happy!

We first put her in their for her naptime and it seemed too easy...she went right down, slept 3 hours, and was happy as a clam!

Bedtime that night was a little more difficult but still went really well...she had to make a run to the bathroom and then her friend Braden stopped by after she was in bed and she heard him so she had to show him her big girl bed...it was just too exciting, but eventually she went to bed and slept great!

A few nights in she fell out of the bed but that's the only time it happened!

I went into this transition thinking that we would require her to ask permission before getting out of bed...she still just cries for me if she wakes up in the middle of the night rather than getting out of bed but in the morning she is letting herself out of her room and greeting me with "Goooood morning mommy..it's not darken anymore"...sometimes it's an appropriate time of morning and sometimes it 's not!

I have to say that she has not been sleeping as well in general since we made the transition but I'm hoping this middle of the night crying early morning rising kiddo will soon adjust and go back to sleeping until 8:30 or 9:00 in the morning...pretty please?

I finally finished the quilt that goes with her bedding and she loves her "new blanket"

She's just growing up too fast!