Big Girl Bed

Emily slept in her big girl bed for the first time last night! She has been so ready for us to get her room ready, but it has taken a bit of time. I don't have any pictures of the room, yet, but will get them up as we finish all the finishing touches over the weekend. This was Emily's first time to sleep with a pillow which she thought was neat. We put the side rail up just in case, though she'd rather it not be there. We have the mattress down on the lowest setting, but we'll move it up when she's a little older and we hopefully put a trundle bed underneath. When its moved up, the headboard won't look quite so big.

She likes to climb up on the bed and hang out there. When she came home from school today she said she was going to take a little rest, which she often does while I get her lunch. She asked if she could do that in her big girl room and of course I said ok. She loved getting to rest on her bed instead of on the floor like she usually does.

She took a little bit of time to fall asleep last night, but she was given strict instructions not to get out of the bed until Mommy or Daddy come in. She didn't, though she called for me once before she fell asleep because she had dropped Molly (her monkey) and couldn't get her leg under the covers quite right. She slept through until this morning, like normal. She took a little longer to fall asleep for her nap today, but fell asleep within 25 minutes or so, so not too long overall. We hung up room darkening curtains so I can get the room nice and dark which is one of my complaints with the current nursery. We'll remedy that before this baby moves into it.

And the light is not on in the picture, the flash lit up the room like that!

She's such a big girl now! She really isn't a baby anymore.