Kaylee's first night in a big girl bed

Last night was Kaylee’s first night in a big girl bed! This weekend we used Eric’s pick-up truck to get my sister’s twin bed and nightstand for Kaylee’s room. Eric took out the crib and rocker and made room for the bed and nightstand. He moved her bed to be right near the window and totally re-orientated the room. We made a huge deal about the new bedding and being able to climb up there (we took out the box spring so she can climb up on it). We showed her how she can have all her stuffed animals at the end of her bed. It was hard getting her down, really outside of her normal routine of being rocked and then put in the crib. So in order to help her feel more comfortable, because I could understand her being excited/anxious by everything in her room changing, I laid in bed with her until she fell asleep. Then she did wake up at about 3 or so and I had to go back in and lay with her. It wasn’t a very restful night for either of us, but the transition is worth it and hopefully will improve during the rest of the week. When I peeked at her in the morning, she was blissfully asleep with her arms over her head, and her head not on her pillow. She looked so miniature compared to the large twin comforter over her. So sweet. Eric and I were both really excited and proud to see her make this change. Hopefully the rest of the week will go fine with less needed from me.

Kaylee continues to want the nukie. It’s very disconcerting after all this time with her talking so much to hear her talking about 10 percent as much. She whines, cries and insists on it. But we’ll see what happens, we would really like to hear her voice more and see her smiling face more so we may be attempting something soon to get away from this new habit of hers. We’re congnizant of the fact that there are a lot of transitions at once happening with Kaylee and we don’t want it to get to hard for her, with the new bed and with this being her last week in her daycare and starting at a new place next week. (In case I haven’t posted on this, we are transitioning away from the center (not that we didn’t like it, it’s just the expense) to an in-home daycare, in preparation for the financial blow of having another child in daycare. The new daycare provider is a licensed teacher, mother of four, she lives in a nice place with a playground right out her backyard.)

Kaylee had a lot of fun at her first birthday party with my side of the family. She ate too much cake though and was up a lot at night – lesson learned!

Kaylee has had ½ cup of milk each day this weekend. Yesterday we gave her too much and she had hives popping up around her mouth, so we’re going to make sure and limit the exposure. But it’s great to have her making such good progress toward not having any allergies! Yay!

I am trying to get some photos of the birthday party to post here. So hopefully will be up here soon - stay tuned!