Ellie Gets her Big Girl Bed, February 2017

Our girl is growing up! At 2 years, 4 months, Ellie went from sleeping in her crib to a double size bed!! 

Since Ellie starting taking over the queen size better when we travel to El Paso, and since I was so ready to sell baby furniture (half of which was sitting in our garage waiting for Ellie to be done with the crib), we decide to make a big leap! Unlike the boys who went from their cribs, to the toddler bed version of their crib, and then to double beds (Evan just a year ago), we took Ellie straight from her crib to a double size day bed!

Here is her room before... She has been in Evan's first crib since a newborn!

And a few hours later, we had her room looking like this!!! I order the bed online and put it together myself!  She and Evan were both SO excited to sit on her bed and read and play, but sleeping along was not as exciting to her!!

Reading by each other in bed! 

Bella is very excited to have another bed she can jump into also!!! 

She skipped nap the first day because it was pretty late by the time we had the bed put together, so that night she fell asleep so fast and so hard!!! The next day, nap time was a big battle! She just keeps saying, "Mama, sleep with me!!!" And she is fine when I lay next to her. But as soon as I try to leave, she wakes up or opens her eyes and starts crying for me not to! Oh no!!! 

Barrett was able to take over putting her down for naps over the weekend, and as usual, he had the magic touch! She was fine and over it by Monday! Although she still asks, she gets over it quickly when I say no! 

The only real lingering issue is that she constantly gets up to check the door! We turned the handle around so we can lock her in, but if we forget (and I mean EVERY time we forget), we find a little wondering Ellie in our house!! We have caught her standing on the stairs twice, and she has come all the way into our room 3 times!

Below is a picture of her from our baby monitor screen, checking to make sure we locked the door!!

And here is a picture of her SO proud of herself and laughing so hard when she made it into our room recently! B and I were watching TV and both gasped when we noticed a tiny figure standing in our doorway!!!! She just kept laughing while she climbed into our bed! Crazy girl!! 

This little one is quite the adventure!!