"The Switch"

Ever since Guiliana's 1st ear infection back in November, she has slept with us on and off. As the months went on and she continued to get her ear infections the sleeping with us became ON almost all of the time. She finally got her tubes and has not had an ear infection since. I have to say... I think 8 in 6 months was about all we could handle!! At this point she HATES the crib. We tried that whole "tough love" thing back at the end of May, let her cry for 45 min and then fall asleep. Well, she made herself SO upset that she pooped herself!!! When I found that out, I changed her (her poopy pants woke her up) and then put her back in bed with us, as I was SO upset, and she had been sleeping with us every since! The funny part is.... I swore (ask my friend Sandra) that I would NEVER get into the habit of letting her sleep in our bed. She said, watch, wait till she gets sick, blah! blah! blah! Needless to say... she was right!!
Anyways, Greg and I knew that once she started walking we could do the switch from the crib to the toddler bed. She sleeps in a cot at school for nap time and she sleeps for almost 3hrs some days. Since this was one of our only free weekends till maybe October, we would do the switch this weekend. We ventured out to Walmart Supercenter yesterday to get the goods. On our list, a VERY SECURE gate for the top of the stairs and a toddler bed set. She is so use to our bed that I wanted to do whatever I could to try and replicate that. We ended up picking her out a Tinkerbell Bed set, not the old school tink, but the new movie Tink. Her room is all butterflies and flowers and I thought that this would match the best. Plus, I am a little bias as there is one of Tink's friends who is a sunflower (and we all know I am obsessed!) It was a great choice because she got excited and when I put the comforter and pillow on her bed she gives Tink a kiss.
So, after the pain of the ass gate installation and the crib conversion, we were set! Oh!! I forgot one key point... her current obsession is with WALL-E, so we thought that we would buy that (as our only copy is a taped version on tivo) and put it on for her in her room. We put it on and she got into bed and laid down. I laid by/with, whatever she wanted and stayed with her till she fell sleep. This took almost all of WALL-E but she finally fell asleep. She didn't cry or fuss or move all around, she just wanted to lay and watch the movie. She only woke up once and that was for her pacifier.
Of course, I think that she got way more sleep than I did!!! Every little sound I woke up! I think it was because I know that she can get up on her own now and we are not quite sure how she would handle it. Would she come right into our room??? Every time I checked on her she was sound asleep. She never even made a peep. After the lost pacifier incident, I had to lay by her for a bit and apparently fell asleep and Greg had to get me. She was very comfortable because she slept till almost 8am and this is a kid who is a 6-6:30am kinda gal.
I was a little nervous for nap time today but we did it!!! She didn't cry but did wanna stand up, jump, and play around. After about 30min dedication, I got her to fall asleep. As we speak, that was almost 2 hours ago and she is still sleeping! She woke up about 10min ago, looked around and fell back asleep. She seems to be comfortable. I think it will be a long week of getting her to sleep in her toddler bed but by this time next weekend, I feel confident that she will be a pro at it!!!!




Taken this morning at 7:45am (still sleeping!!)