We were blessed to receive several pieces of nice furniture from my grandmother when we visited her a few weeks ago, and among those pieces were a set of twin beds for Jocelyn's room. Since her room is big enough to accommodate her nursery furniture and one twin bed, we decided to go ahead and move one of the beds into her room to a) get it out of the garage and b) get her used to it. She wasn't going to start sleeping in the big bed until sometime in December or January. Well, she had other plans for naptime today...
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I was not emotionally ready for this, and I felt like I would have more time to prepare myself for the baby-to-big-girl step of moving from the crib to the bed! Yes, there were tears! (From me, not from her!) She insisted on every stuffed animal joining her in bed before she went to sleep and then told us "buh-bye," which is her way of saying "good night" at naptime and bedtime. She cried for a little while, but no more than she usually cries when we leave the room (about five minutes or so), and she never tried to get out of bed. We were ambivalent about putting a side rail on the bed, mostly because she plays on our bed and is good about understanding the sides of it and getting on and off of it safely; we weren't planning to make the final decision for a few weeks because we didn't think she would be moving quite yet! I guess she made the decision for us!
(As a final note, I do realize that it might not continue to be smooth sailing in the big girl bed from here on, so we're prepared to be flexible. But I never expected it to go this smoothly for the first nap in it!)
