Ava's new BIG GIRL room!

Last week Ava attempted to climb out of her toddler bed via the crib side and got stuck between the wall and the crib. She's gotten too big for her crib toddler bed. I also LOVE our crib and it is one of the few things that I do want to use next time so I did not want her to break it either with her new gymnastic skills.

I never in my wildest dreams thought we would have to take the crib down. I ALWAYS thought it would be hard for me to get pregnant with our first but once we had our first that we'd be able to have our kids all about 1 1/2 - 2 years apart and we'd never have to take down the crib till we were done having kids. Oh how wrong I was. Ava was our "easy" child to conceive and nearly 2 years later number 2 is proving to be extremely difficult.

I was able to take down the crib this morning without crying. I did it with Ava there and that helped because she was so excited about her new big bed.  We managed to take the crib down and put her twin bed up in an hour and then my mother in law watched her while I hung tissue pom pom's from the ceiling and a clothesline of rompers :)

And if you noticed that this is the same quilt that we have in our room... then you are right. I have loved it all along for Ava's room. When we decided to change Ava's room over, I looked it up on Pottery Barn and they were clearance them out and all they had left were King size duvets.  I decided to go for it and used the material to make the twin comforter and the extra material for curtains, pillow cases and I still have more left! 

Ava was so excited about it and went to sleep so easy tonight. She has napped 1 time (yesterday) in 3 weeks so we are hoping that maybe this will help nap time too :) Ignore the messy bookcase, still need to work on it.  And I'm changing the pom poms in this last picture, I don't love the pastels. AND I'm doing a contest on my brittybird blog to figure out a vinyl for right over her bed!! :)

Big Girl Bed! Part 2

Well Ava had been in her "big girl bed" for 1 week now! The first night she got up I think 5 times before she finally fell asleep, not bad, took an extra 2 hours for bedtime. The next night she got up 1-2 times and then went to sleep. By the 3rd night she just stayed in bed but it took her about 20 minutes of chit chatter before she fell asleep...

then on the 3rd night she woke up with a fever of 102 :( so that wasn't fun. But after she was feeling better she went back to sleeping great! She goes and gets in bed now when she wants to go to bed!! Big plus she is staying in bed!

Naptime was a bit different. She hadn't been napping, her room was just too fun. But the last 2 days we have put her in a sleep sack and she has stayed in her bed and just taken a nap!!!

SO happy it turned out to be an easy transition!

Big Girl Bed!

Tonight is Ava's first night in her "big girl bed" OH wish us luck!!
We decided a month and a half ago (well at Thanksgiving) that it was getting close to time. She weighs over 32 pounds now and lifting her out of her crib has been causing my back pain to be excruciating. We ordered the little toddler rail for her bed since it was 50% off on amazon and decided around new years after family had left we would give it a go.
Well new years came and went and since Ava and I both got sick we didn't change her bed over. Since we decided we are heading to AZ in a few weeks I realized I either needed to switch her now or buy some sort of "toddler tent bed" for our trip because shes way too big (tall and heavy) for her pack n play, it was a stretch to use it 6 months ago but now we definitely can't use it.
We did our usual bedtime routine (after I spent over an hour setting up her bed and baby proofing the room) and got her to bed around 7:30 (2 hours ago)... She stayed in her bed for 50 minutes! I thought we were home free but since then in the last hour shes gotten up 4 or 5 times and came to the door trying to open it. We have the baby monitor on as well. I hope we some how get some sleep tonight and we figure this thing out. I'm giving it a few nights and if it doesn't work we are going back to the crib.