Thursday 16 May 2013

Baby's got a brand new bed

Well I don't know about you guys, but right now I am dying. I have the man flu. Everyone keeps telling me that I just have a little cold, but they couldn't possibly be right. I feel like absolute crap, and I'm about to go visit WebMD just to find out exactly how long I have to get my affairs in order. And then I'm going to disown Miss K for passing this horrible cold on to me. Of all the things she shares with me, her bugs are definitely the worst.

Well I'm not actually here tonight to complain about how sick I am (which I really am), I'm actually here to share a pretty big milestone for Miss K and I. And like all milestones, this one comes with photos.

Believe it or not, she is the spitting image of her aunty Sam in this photo.

Now it may be hard to tell from that photo, but what you are looking at is Miss K's first night in a big girl bed. It's really just her cot with the wall taken off, but it's just a temporary bed until I can get her a real big girl bed. We've had to do this because with her jumping on the bed every morning she's managed to break one of the slats, so I had to do something to put a stop to the jumping, and this was really my only option. 

The photo was taken last night while I was madly trying to get her to settle down and actually stay in her bed. She was fine while I was in the room, but the moment I stepped out she'd be up and running after me with Elmo in tow. I actually tried at both nap time and bed time to get her to sleep in there. Nap time was much worse, because she cried the whole time, and I ended up taking all her toys out of the room, because as soon as my back was turned she'd be up and playing with something new. My favorite time was when I walked in to find her having a bash on the drum kit. Subtlety has never been her strong suit.

So I decided to skip the nap yesterday and try again at night. This time I sat in the room with her, slowly getting closer and closer to the door, but again, as soon as I left the room she'd be up. We ended up taking a break from bed time for five minutes so I could have a breather, and she fell asleep on the couch in less than ten minutes during this break.  I'm considering this one a win even though she technically didn't fall asleep in bed, because once she was down she stayed down till 7 this morning. 

So tonight I decided to try again. She'd missed her nap again today, and we went to speech therapy this morning, so that's always good for wearing her out. Plus she spent the afternoon at my big sister's house playing with her cousins so that I could have a much needed rest, so needless to say by the time bed time came around she was well and truly ready for sleep. I tried sitting in the room with her again, but this time I didn't move. I sat on the ground at the foot of the bed very quietly ignoring her, and within 10 minutes of going to bed she was fast asleep. So even better.

I'm going to keep doing the same thing for another couple of days, and hopefully by this time next week she'll be OK with going to bed by herself and we'll be one step closer to her being a big girl. I've actually been dreading this step for a long time now, but we'll get through it like we do with every big change, I guess I just hate the fact that my little girl really isn't a baby any more. 

Well that's all for me, I'm off to go sit on the couch and feel sorry for myself until bed time. And maybe eat an entire bag of jelly beans too. Stay awesome everyone.


10 comments:

  1. Congrats to Miss K on the big girl bed! I was lucky with my girls, who both transitioned to their big girl beds without much issues.

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    1. Thanks Stephanie. You were lucky then if they handled it so well. I'm not sure if perhaps Miss K was a bit young for this change, but we have no choice really. We'll just keep persevering and hopefully she'll be ok with it soon.

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  2. Your doing a great Job Mum! Keep it up and soon she will be all settled without any fuss! :)

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    1. Thank you Melissa. We had a bad night last night because she woke up at midnight and I couldn't settle her. She ended up in bed with me. It took everything I had not to put the side back on the cot, but I'm determined we can get through this.

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  3. You did a wonderful job with your question! You are most certainly a writer and I once thought about being all those things. That is except being Mrs. Johnny Depp. For me it was Mrs. River Phoenix. Poor River. I will never know.

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    1. Thank you Nicole. I can totally see the thing with River Phoenix, but he was already dead before I saw him in Stand By Me, so I was too late to the party. Such a shame.

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  4. Oh no, I hope you feel better...it sucks being sick when you are a mom. Congrats on the big bed, I know I still struggle with Dino going to sleep and now he gets up out of bed when he wakes in the morning..then the terror starts.

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    1. Thank you. I'm slowly getting better, I had a fever last night, but a couple of shots of Galliano were enough to make me forget all about my cold for a little while.

      I have noticed that my daughter sounds like Darth Vader when she's standing at the head of my bed staring at me at 5 in the morning. It's not my favourite way to wake up, but the cuddles I get are worth it.

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  5. Congratulations on the milestone! Hope you're feeling better now...

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    1. Thank you TK, my cold is in the awful last drippy stages now, but I've been able to function as an almost human for a couple of days now, so I guess that's good.

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