Olivia's Big Girl Bed!!

We spent last weekend putting together Olivia's Big Girl Room & Bed. We switched her room to the spare one and got her big girl bed set up. We've been prepping her for it, and hoping that she/we would be ready for this big change. She loved helping us and had her cute little hands right in there. By the time we got the spare bdrm stuff moved out, most of her stuff moved over, and her bed set up & made it was almost 7:30 PM Sat night. Olivia wanted me to lie in it with her for awhile-which I thought was a great idea-I was exhausted! But she just had fun with the fact that she could get in & out all by herself. I think in the half hour I laid there, she got up at least 20 times- "I gotta go see what Daddy's doing" and she would jump out-go check on him in the living room, come back & hop back into bed. Then it was "I gotta get a book", or "I gotta get my baby",and then back out. She was just loving the freedom. Which made us concerned for how Night #1 would go with sleeping. We put her down & she came out to see us just once & then back in her bed. But an hour later she wanted to sleep in her crib, so we put in her in that. At about 1:30AM she was crying & I went in to check on her & she wanted back in her big girl bed, so I slept with her the rest of the night. Day #2-Naptime-this was going to be our true test if she would stay in her bed while it was light in the room but she slept for 2.5 hours w/o getting out once :) Night #2-Olivia woke up once and Pat laid with her for just a short time. Night #3 she did really well-just woke up at 6:30 crying b/c "her shadow scared her". Overall-it has been a very good adjustment for her & she has done very well much to our surprise. Now we've been trying to tell her that b/c she's now a big girl she needs to start going potty on the big girl potty, and ditch the pacies. Hopefully soon that will all come! For now she is just absolutely loving her room!

Pat and Olivia starting to put together the Big Girl Bed. The bed was given to us by our friends Jerry & Nadine in NM & has been perfect for her! (Thank you!)
Olivia was lots of help!

She had a blast jumping around & playing in her bed

Olivia helped me put up the decals-she was so excited helping that she was trying as fast as she could to peel them off the paper to put them on & I told her-"Just wait a minute" & her reply was "I just need to hold my horsies".

Olivia tucked in & ready for her first night in her new bed.