It's official...my lil lady isn't not so little anymore!!!!!! :(
Mackenna has always loved her crib and being that she's over 2.5 years old and still loves her crib, Nate and I decided we would try and keep her in it until we move. At that point,w e thought moving into the big girl bed would be an even bigger deal when we are in the new house and she see her new room!
Well in the last week or so, she's gotten her leg stuck through the crib rungs and then Jessica let me know that she's beginning to try and get in and out of her crib at daycare too. Well being that Nate and I were kinda of dumb and didn't pick out a crib that transitioned through the stages of your child, so we decided to be creative and thankfully Nate had those juices flowing to figure this one out so we didn't have to go buy a lame toddler bed in this short transition time!
I can't really explain what he did, but it works and she LOVES IT!!!!!!! It's so close to the ground that the 2 times she's "rolled" out, it gave her a teeny scare, but nothing to derail her from being in her new bed. We are actually thankful this was a forceful change as now we are confident she'll get used to the new big girl feel and once we move and she gets her REAL big girl bed it will be just a fun thing for her, rather than a completely new thing!
She loves the fact that she can get out of her room on her own now and for the first couple days she was whipping open our door at 5am and it was making for LONG days for all of us. Well I got my creative juices flowing for this oen and decided to cover up the last 2 numbers on her digital princess clock so she can only see the first number. We told her that she can get out of her room at 6 and she has been doing just that...sometimes even 7!!!!!! She is so proud of herself and I think that's the best part. She's not only a big girl in her bed, but now she feels like a big girl with more responsibilities on her own :) Bittersweet moment for mama, that's for sure!
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