Good Lord: It's the Big Girl Bed

I have mixed feelings about this.

BEFORE

AFTER (Last night, her first night)

Maybe it's the obvious: that her bed is taller than ours??? The step stool requirement? I mean, really, for a crib/toddler bed convertible, this bed is very Princess-and-the-Pea-like tall. I doubt will it do much for helping to encourage midnight potty runs. She's still never been one to get out of her bed at night without us or even upon wake up in the morning even though she certainly could.

I know, it needs a bed skirt. Cut me some slack.

The whole room covers the floor where she learned to walk, and where she liked to run naked back and forth between me and Paul. Where we've had to chase her down to cooperate into her PJ's. It covers her escape path to the chair when she tries to hide for bath time. It covers the real estate Paul uses for pre-bedtime horsey rides before dumping her into the big chair. Which is also gone.

It intrudes like she's 13 or something. It's BIG and she's so little. (OK yeah she's tall though).

But she likes her new bedroom. She is very content and passed out quickly.

But the biggest drawback came as a harsh reminder every two hours last night: Mommmmeeee, mommmmmeeeee. In the additional bed estate that she has acquired, the paci is lost in a sea of polk-a-dot sheets. I went up expecting to find it on the floor, out of her obvious reach, but no. It was right by her pillow both times.

Part of me thinks I should give her time to adjust to the expanded bedding and she'll get used to feeling around for the paci like she did in the other bed. The other part of me thinks It's either time to buy glow in the dark paint for the paci (considered) or have a talk about how I am not coming up to help her find her paci in that new big bed. What, don't you think part of me knows it's time to just yank that paci for good (the obvious!)? But it's such an end-of-the-day comfort for her, it's hard for me to push. Still. My targeted end-in-sight for the paci for real: Christmas. Hand it over to Santa, baby. When the downtime at work will make the potential sleepless nights more tolerable by day.

Anyway, we made the big move yesterday since her toes were nearly touching the toddler day bed. But I didn't think it'd be so high off the ground. Is this typical or is our mattress set just unusually high? It's in sane.

It does give her room a whole new feel. It's definitely cozy but I was really surprised at my feelings about the conversion. For 3 years we've had the same routine in the same configuration. Same bedtime stories in that chair and songs/stories by her bed. Wow, I hadn't thought about it Saturday night as that was the last time we'd have that.

The view on the monitor is obviously different too. Over the years we've adjusted it a little as she's grown. In the beginning, it was zoomed right in on her tiny body so close we could see her chest rise and fall. Now we have it angled where we can capture parts of the floor too: we need a bigger picture of what's going on up there.

I'm tired already.