Finally! The BIG GIRL BEDROOM is complete, well, once we get her rug cleaned tonight it will be complete. And, she transitioned from our bed to hers quite well... sleeping all night on the very first night! WHOO HOOO!
Let's back up a little in this story. We have been trying to transition the "nursery" to a "big girl" room for about a year and a half now. This is our second child and unfortunately we didn't learn from our first born when it came to the whole "conversion" bed craze. You see when we found out we were pregnant for the first time, we got sucked into the "One Stop Shop" (a.k.a. Baby's R Us). They convinced us to buy the 3-in-1 conversion bed: Crib, toddler bed, full bed. Well... Owen didn't last a week in the toddler bed before he either rolled out (yes, even with a rail) or woke up and walked into our room. So, thankfully, we had the conversion rails to make it a full bed and that was that. We swore we wouldn't do it again... WRONG. Although we weren't at the One Stop Shop, two and a half years later we are shopping for Olivia's crib and WHAM BAM... sucked in to the 3-in-1 bed again. This time we tried to keep her in the crib even though she was climbing out at one and a half years old. After a few "hard" falls, though, we changed it to the toddler bed. Just like her older brother, she didn't last a week before she was walking into our room at two o'clock in the morning. Unfortunately (and once again, this is something we should have known going into this), there was no room for the full bed in her quaint little room. Well, that is if you want a dresser to store her clothes. So, the toddler bed for the last year and a half has been used as storage for her babies, blankets, laundry, etc. And the conversion rails for the full bed are enabling spiders to create there beautiful webs somewhere in the attack. So, Olivia either sleeps in Owen's bed (forcing Owen into our bed) or she sleeps in bed with us.
Finally, after having our backs, heads, faces kicked a million times we decided we'd better do something (umm, hello?!). We found the most beautiful bed online. And why wouldn't the rest of the toddler parent's out there think it was just as beautiful? Maybe we should have thought about that a trillion weeks ago. The dresser was in and ready to be shipped, but the bed... the most important piece... was on backorder, and backorder, and backorder again... and so on. The kicking of the backs, heads, faces... being pushed to the outer most parts of the bed... waking up grouchy with kinks and sore backs... continued on for another gazillion weeks.
We sang the praises yesterday, though: ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA! The furniture was delivered! The bedding was purchased and the Princess is as happy as can be!
More importantly... the evil king and queen woke up and were suprisingly happy!;)
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