We are doing big girl bed swap. We have ~3 months til baby boy makes his debut.
Will painted Jenny's new room yellow at the end of April. Next we had to get a mattress. Then he installed a baby gate on her door. And last but not least he put together the bed rail.
(oh yeah----i bought what i hope is a fabulous waterproof mattress pad at the mattress store. It is called "Protect-A-Bed" and it is also good for allergies. So far I can say that it is comfortable and doesn't make crackle noise or make you sweaty. Lets see if it will stand up to wetting the bed..........)
The room is not totally complete, but here are the recent pictures:
(oh yeah----i bought what i hope is a fabulous waterproof mattress pad at the mattress store. It is called "Protect-A-Bed" and it is also good for allergies. So far I can say that it is comfortable and doesn't make crackle noise or make you sweaty. Lets see if it will stand up to wetting the bed..........)
The room is not totally complete, but here are the recent pictures:
Party on the new mattressLittle Dee was guest of honor
Playing on her new bed with dolly the day of her first big girl bed nap
Cage door (heh heh) This is my attempt to keep her from roaming the house at night----too bad that she can already open it. Maybe I can just put some fear in her.....Yeah so yesterday was the big day. In preparation, I told her a few times that she was going to nap in big girl bed. Of course it has never done me any good to try to inform her of how things will go (in an effort to keep her from being scared) This has proven uneffective so far for doc office, public change table, bible class jitters, etc.....
Anyway, at about naptime yesterday she was playing alone in her new room. I went to check on her and found her snuggling in bed with blankie. Perfect! I asked if she was ready to nap---"yeah" she says. "sleepy" she says. So I covered her with special pink blanket and said naptime and shut the gate. No disputes. I am in the den going "ha ha ha yeah right that is too good to be true" of course after about 1 minute she came to the gate and said calmly "ope nit, ope nit" Back to bed i took her and that is when she started to realize my plan. Totally did not like it. Had to scream a good bit. She would do less screaming actually if I left her sight so that is how I rolled. Then she eventually pooped in diaper and got it on her hands and came to the gate like that (not too rare for her to do this unfortunately). "poo poo mommy!" So one clean diaper, one handwashing, one hand geling and one more lecture about not touching poop later--- back to big girl bed she went. Not happy again but she eventually conked.
Anyway, at about naptime yesterday she was playing alone in her new room. I went to check on her and found her snuggling in bed with blankie. Perfect! I asked if she was ready to nap---"yeah" she says. "sleepy" she says. So I covered her with special pink blanket and said naptime and shut the gate. No disputes. I am in the den going "ha ha ha yeah right that is too good to be true" of course after about 1 minute she came to the gate and said calmly "ope nit, ope nit" Back to bed i took her and that is when she started to realize my plan. Totally did not like it. Had to scream a good bit. She would do less screaming actually if I left her sight so that is how I rolled. Then she eventually pooped in diaper and got it on her hands and came to the gate like that (not too rare for her to do this unfortunately). "poo poo mommy!" So one clean diaper, one handwashing, one hand geling and one more lecture about not touching poop later--- back to big girl bed she went. Not happy again but she eventually conked.
It wasn't pretty....but this was the end result-----first nap in big girl bed
Today she is in there again for nap and it was still an ugly drama but not quite as ugly or long as the first day. Here's hoping each day gets better and better...........
1 comment:
ha. love it. can't believe she touchs poop. that makes me laugh
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