Big Girl bed

On Saturday we converted Elese's crib to a toddler bed. I'm pretty sure that either Steven or Max used the word transformed because she told my mom she was getting a Transformer bed. Here are a few things that have happened during this new adjustment in her life...

Night 1 (Saturday): Elese kept getting up so Steven said, "OK, I'm going to have to lock the door" and he held onto the knob so she couldn't get out. Apperantly just after that she crawled into bed with Max because she was scared. She got up again a while later and when we put her back she asked if she could sleep with Max. When Steven went to check on them they were both sound asleep in Max's bed. I'm still a little mad at him for putting her into her bed before I could get a picture.

Night 2 (Sunday): Elese got up and said, "I don't have to go to bed!!???" This was a great realization to her...we put her back in bed and she came out again saying the same thing.

Night 3 (Monday): I rolled over and felt something in the bed and I thought it was Stevens arm until I realized it had a face...Elese had crawled into bed with us and we didn't even notice her come in. This really freaked me out! When Max comes in he makes his apperance known by crying or just saying, "Daddy? Daddy? Mommy?" and poking us. So last night I closed the door more than usually so that she would make more noise if she came in.

Night 4 (Tuesday): Steven had a meeting so I was doing bed time duty on my own. Elese stayed in bed for a while...got up once and then I put her back in bed. Suddenly she started getting up over and over again. While I stood by the door I heard Max telling her to get up! When I took her back in I told him to stop telling her and he said, "But Mommy, it's funny to watch you bring her back in." She kept getting up! Finally I told Max that this was my time to have to myself and that he had taken that away from me so he had to be in charge. At first he just sat in bed and would say, "Elese get back in bed" while she ran to me smiling brightly. Then I set a chair by their bedroom door and told him to sit on it and to hold her hand and walk her back to bed when she got up. After a while Elese was very upset that she was only getting to see Max so I gave her a choice. "Do you want mommy to give you hugs and kisses and tuck you in or do you want Max to keep putting you back in bed?" She chose to have me tuck her it. An hour or two later she got up again...Steven noticed that she had just peed...then an hour after that she got up again and had just peed again...So it seems that once we can get her to stay in bed we will have to work harder on potty training.

Night 5 (Tonight/Wednesday): Elese did get up once while I was grocery shopping and laid in my moms bed with her for a while and then said, "I want to go to sleep in my bed." We haven't heard a peep since.

Naps haven't been much of a problem until today...she woke up an hour earlier than she should have and just cried inbetween 1-2 minute power naps for about 2 hours...then she wanted me to never leave her sight.

Here she is in her new bed (well "transformed bed".