Big Girl Bed

For the last week, Gwen has been taking naps in the Big Girl bed in her room.   "Compliance" isn't high on the list of Gwen's skills but she seems to be consistently staying in bed and not getting up and roaming around.  I wouldn't have betted this would happen but we seem to be lucking out.

Last night, we put her to bed in her crib and she was happy but she was still awake at 10:00.  When I went into her room, she jumped up and announced "I not tired".  So I lifted her out of her crib and held her in my arms for a few extremely satisfying minutes.  She was quiet and content to just be held and rocked. 

I finally asked her if she wanted to sleep in her Big Girl bed and she dove out of my arms onto the mattress.  I got her pillow and blanket and kitty and told her that she must stay in bed and not get up and she said "I good girl.  I no get out of bed.  I tired.  Nite nite, Mommy.  I love you."

I'm so in love with this little girl!  She melts my heart!

Every time the cat made a noise last night, I bolted upright in bed!  I was really primed to be listening for any hint that Gwenny was out of bed and roaming around.  But she stayed in bed all night!  At 7:30 AM, we went into her room and got her up!

She's napping right now - in her big girl bed!

(PS:  we moved Maddy's crib into the Blue Room since it was bigger than the port-a-crib she was sleeping in.  She prefers her own room and is quite happy to be in there.  It works better to have the girls sleep in different rooms since Gwen loves to snooze and Maddy loves to blab!  I hope they'll want to share a room later though.) 

Comments

[Jana]

Awww, that is so precious!!! She's a big girl now :)

[Marilyn]

Good for Gwen! See how well it goes when you wait until they are ready? :)

[Robin]

So cool about the big girl bed. Interesting that they want their own rooms at this early age. With our Maddy going to be two when we get her, we are not sure whether to start with a crib or just go straight to the big girl bed. We have a crib just in case since I'm assuming she will have never slept in anything other than that.

[Yoli]

Look at that! She is so adorable in her big girl bed! I am glad she is transitioning well. I don't know when I am going to start doing that with Sally but it will have to be soon.

[Cindy]

Go Gwen! Thank goodness for the side rails, right? We just moved our little guy to a toddler bed and he thuds up against the rails a few times a night...which is better than him crashing to the floor!

[Sam]

Wow!!! That's great!

[M3]

Hey I just clicked over here and found a bunch of posts! I was waiting for you to "tickle" the RSS feed on the other blog. Shoot! Congrats on the big girl bed accomplishment.

[kimber]

She melts my heart too just picturing her speaking so sweetly to you!
what a big girl.
T will be two in two weeks and sleeps all night in the queen bed in her room (crazy I know- it's a long story but it works for us!).
The lake event looked super fun!
K.x

[D]

Hey! No fair!

I'm in the same boat as M3 - only it took me even longer to find time to check here... I just couldn't believe that you hadn't posted in such a long time!

Anyway - interesting to read that they are sleeping in separate rooms. Ours HATE not to be together. So this would be impossible here. But they've been in big girl beds (well, two twin size mattresses on the floor) for about 8 months now (since three weeks after they turned two) - and that worked great.

[Becky]

oops! I guess I was waiting for you to post something in your old blog for us to check here.
Gwen looks too cute in her big girl's bed. How does it feel not to see her in her crib anymore? I guess you are happy and sad since your little baby is growing up!

[Shelley]

Yay Gwenny! Good job.

And congrats to you Mom! :) That's a major milestone.

[Lisa]

What a big girl! We put a baby gate on Gracie's door when she moved to a big girl bed...I can't worry about her raoming the house at night...