Our Big Girl...

This post is a bit overdue, but better late than never.

About two months ago Katelee decided that she could climb out of her crib, onto the drawers and Ethan would help her down from there. We were surprised a few mornings to have Katelee come walking into our room.... It was then that we decided it was probably time to bite the bullet and move Katelee into a big girl bed. Ethan only climbed out of his crib once... I was downstairs and heard a big thud, ran upstairs to find him crying on the floor.. He never did it again! But if anyone knows Katelee you know she is a determined little girl and doesn't stop doing things just because they are scary! When we moved Ethan into a big boy bed it was great the first few nights. The first night he laid awake IN bed for over three hours, just so excited to be in a new bed... After the newness wore off he started getting out of bed ALL the time and it became a task to get him to stay in bed each night. At bedtime I dreaded putting him down because the next hour or so would be spend fighting with him about staying in his room and bed. We locked him in, gated him in and came oh so close to tying him into bed. (I was never able to find a safe way to do this, so I never felt quite comfy enough with it! :)) Because Katelee is so much more stubborn than Ethan I really dreaded a big girl bed... But one Saturday Chris moved the top bunk down for Katelee. We figured the top bunk was best because it has railing that would keep her from falling out when she tossed and turned like ALL kids do! We never expected her to stay in her bed, it was a shorter railing and thus easier to climb over... But we were prepared for the trouble we just knew was going to come our way!

To our great surprise and astonishment the first night we put Katelee in her new bed she didn't escape and to our even greater astonishment she still to this day has not gotten out of bed. In the mornings Ethan will climb into her bed and read books and mess around. He will then climb out of her bed, but she wont. She stays in there, some mornings crying, until we come and get her out of bed! She has adjusted so well I kind of regret not doing it earlier!

Amazing how you think you know a child so well and then they prove you wrong!!!

As a sidenote to these pictures. Katelee started out with a sleeper on and when we came into her room before we went to bed it was off! She may not get out of bed but the girl sure knows how to mess around while in bed. Please see picture below for another example of this....