Big Girl room update.

I would say that overall the big girl room is a big success. She seems to love the cozy blankets. Although it is a bit harder to contain her in the middle of the night when she insists she's "not tired" or "wants to play with toys for a bit", she likes the fact that we can lie on her bed to help her calm down and fall back to sleep. The lack of the num num still means that she can't fall asleep on her own when she wakes up. She was never good at this anyway, but with the soother we could often go into her room for 30 seconds and give it back to her which would make her fall back to sleep quickly. The initial getting to sleep routine now includes her falling asleep holding a book and us sneaking in later on to take it away from her. In the middle of the night it generally involves a combonation of the lying down with her plus a book. I'm trying to shorten the amount of time I lay with her in the night and try to leave while she's still awake.

It seems the main reason of waking up is to go to the bathroom. Good thing since she refuses to wear a pull up to bed since shortly after she started sleeping in the new bed. I guess she has taken "big girl bed" to heart.

She still isn't napping well, but at least she stays in her bed and looks at books for an hour. The lack of naps and a couple of bad nights has caught up with her. We had a really tantrumy and argumentative week last week. It involved a lot of "No's", "I don't want to's", and generally trying to be difficult on purpose.

I could get into specific details about some really bad nights and days, but I don't have the energy to replay these events in my mind! We'll just hope that she is happier this week!

Oh--the bed rail came and we were able to take away the trampoline (crib mattress) beside her bed. Everyone feels a lot safer now.