The Big Girl Bed

After much discussion, we decided it was time to move Kendall to a big girl bed.  We know she's a little young to be out of a crib and neither of us knew if we were up for the transition challenge, but we decided it was time.  First of all, she wasn't sleeping in her crib anyway.  She was up every night, and would scream for us to come rescue her.  Since we are both exhausted and didn't want Ryan to wake up one of us would rescue her and drag her into bed with us.  We have successfully sleep trained her numerous times, but it only worked for so long.  We decided it wasn't worth it anymore.  Plus, we wanted the transition complete before the new baby comes...because she'll need the crib after all.  The transition with Ryan was a nightmare, so we have been prepared for and were expecting the worst. 

Tuesday night was the big night.  We read a couple books, sang a song, then turned on the music.  And Kendall never got up.  She went right to sleep.  And she slept through the night.  And she did again last night! 

It's been a huge success so far, but I'm still not getting my hopes up.  I feel like it's a fluke, and a battle at bedtime is still to come.  Tonight was a little more difficult getting her down, but that's usually the case when both David and I are home.  If it's just me, she goes down without a problem, and if David is home solo she does the same.  However, if we're both here she will not go down without a fight.  This seems to hold true with the big girl bed too.  I just ended up snuggling with her until she fell asleep so it really wasn't awful.

 It will be interesting to see how the rest of the week goes.  So far, we are very happy!  And since Kendall is sleeping in her bed all night, Ryan has decided that maybe he should do the same.  I actually might end up getting some decent sleep...until June that is!