Big Girl Bed!!

Have you heard that my Jenna is a monkey?  Well, if you hadn’t, now you have. She’s a climber.  Climbs up the cabinets, climbs up on beds, climbs up on the table, climbs up the rock wall on the playset, climbs into her crib, climb, climb, climb.  We were afraid she was getting a BIT to efficient at climbing to be able to stay safely in her bed, so a few weeks ago, we made the leap ourselves to take our baby out of the crib.  Daddy, of course, had no problems.  It’s time, he says.  Mommy, of course, got all emotional. My baby is too tiny for a big girl bed (i.e. her crib with the side taken down).  She’s too little; she’s just a 2 ½ year old baby, IT’S JUST TOO SOON!!!  But one night shopping at Target with the kids, I finally picked up the Minnie Mouse bedding I’d been eyeing for weeks and said to Jenna, do you want a new blanket for a big girl bed??  And so it began. 

Turns out Jenna loves her big girl bed. Loves to jump on it, loves to sneak out of it after nap time to climb on the bathroom counters, loves to sneak out of it during the night to come sleep with us, loves to go try to wake up Bubby in the night to play, loves to come to the living room 294 times after we put in her bed to tell us she needs a drink, to go potty, a snack, to brush teeth, to read books, to see Cale, to snuggle, to watch a show…..you get the picture.  No really, she does fine it her big girl bed for a wired, hyper, active, happy 2 year old.  And I guess really not too tiny for it either.

Jenna’s Big Girl Bed….Daddy took the gate off and made it all nice and pretty for her while Cale and I distracted her in the living room

Climbing in her bed

So happy!!!  She loves her bed!!

She’s snuggled in with Dolly and is ready for sleep!

Ni-night Sissy!!