Hannah's Big Girl Room

Hannah spent her 1st night in her big girl room and big girl bed!!  She did absolutely AMAZING!  We were just completely blown away.

On night one, we continued the same bedtime routine we have always done with her and she laid down with no problems.  She got out of bed and came running out of the room 4 times in about 5 mins after we turned out the lights, closed the door, and left.  Once we figured out that she wanted to keep the bedroom door all the way open, she didn't climb out again and rolled over and went right to sleep!  No falling out of bed, no crying, no waking in the middle of the night, NOTHING!  She slept all night in her bed and woke up in the morning asking for daddy which we heard her on the monitor.  She did so good, we were shocked and so unbelievably proud!
 

Day 2-  the first afternoon nap in the bed.  She did pretty good.  She climbed out of bed a few times but didn't run out of the room at all.  Finally I covered her up and told her she could not get out of bed until Mommy or Daddy came in to get her up from her nap, and she listened.  After rolling around in bed, playing with MooMoo, singing, and finally finding her comfy spot, she fell asleep and slept for about an hour and 15 minutes.  She typically sleeps between 2-2.5 hrs on a good day.  I think once we hang some curtains on the windows, she might do a little bit better.  The blinds block some light out, but not enough to really make it as dark as the nursery did.  Once we find a comforter that we like, and something to put on the windows to match that, we will get some curtains hung.

Night two, no issues at all.  We read her 2 usual stories, said a prayer, sang a few songs, and she rolled over and that was it, slept all night.

Nap during day 3 went well, it took her about 30 minutes to fall asleep, but once she did, she slept almost 2 hours.  When she woke up, she didn't get out of bed, but sat there and read her stories at the bottom of the bed -- what a good kiddo, listening to her Momma!

Night three, I was by myself to put Hannah to bed as John had 2 softball games that evening.  Everything went great, no bedtime issues at all.  She fell right asleep.  About 10:15pm I heard Hannah start coughing on the monitor, and it continued for quite some time.  I figured I should go peek in on her just to see if she was alright.  I turned on the hall light, and she was laying on her pillow.  "Mommy, I'm sorry" is what I hear my little baby girl say.  I turned on her bedroom light and found that she had thrown up all over her bed! Hannah has never been sick like this before so it was a little enlightening to my sensitive sense of smell.  I took off her jammies, stripped the entire bed - sheets, blankets, MooMoo were all covered.

Immediately, I kind of freaked out!  We didn't have any other twin bed sheets in the house, what was I going to do now?  Was she going to go back to sleep in there after being sick?  Now that MooMoo was out of commission for the night, would she sleep without him?  For some reason my brain did not want to do any problem solving. So I said to Hannah, Mommy is going to put you back to sleep in the baby's bed now (what we have been calling the nursery/her old room now).  She started to cry and told me, "No Mommy, my want big girl bed".  Well, this shocked me, I couldn't believe she didn't want to go back to the crib.  She clearly doesn't mind sleeping in a big girl bed after all.  Thankfully John walked in the door shortly after the puking discovery so he could help and hold Hannah as I threw some queen size sheets on the bed.  He was able to hold her, sing her a few songs, and put her right back to sleep like nothing had happened at all.  She fell asleep almost immediately and woke up in the morning asking if MooMoo was all clean again.  Smart kiddo, always making us laugh!

Not only were we shocked at Hannah being upset for not wanting to go back into her crib, we were also pleasantly happy to know that this transition is pretty successful so far.  For all my worries about her not sleeping through the night, constantly climbing out of bed and not sleeping, falling out, being scared of a different room, etc etc... she has started off great and she is going to do just fine!  This little girl is truly wonderful, she continues to amaze me every single day :)

nap time on 9/24, we'll get this sleeping-on-the-pillow-business figured out!

**Update:  We had our first fall out of bed last night (9/26).  It was right before 10pm and we hear a loud thud on the monitor.  John and I ran upstairs and found Hannah was crying and walking toward the door.  She cuddled with her daddy for a little bit, then back to bed she went.  No more falls for the rest of the night.  It will take some time for her to figure it all out, but we were glad she went back to sleep and did good for the rest of the night.