Sissy's Big Girl Bed

Well, it was bound to happen. We kept her in a crib for 2 1/2 years (she's such a good sleeper), because we didn't see any reason to move her out of it. It seems like she was in there for a long time (maybe because her big brother moved out of his at 1 1/2), but she really was a good sleeper and we didn't see any reason to change that. But she had been climbing out of the crib for quite awhile and it was only a matter of time before she was going to hurt herself climbing in and out. So, one day in November, we all headed to the store. We took Sissy through the aisles of bedding until she found the perfect bedspread. Next, we drove to the local mattress store, bought her mattress, forced it in to the back of our SUV, and headed home to get her room set up. When we left that morning to buy a bedspread, we weren't planning for her to sleep in her new bed that night, but she was so excited, we didn't want to disappoint. First we had a crib AND a toddler bed in her room to disassemble. It was a long night of taking beds down and moving them outside to our storage shed, retrieving her big girl bed and assembling it, washing her new bedding, making her bed. But when we were all done, the pride and excitement on her face made it all worth it!