Leckbee Family Blog

Josh and I have been toying with the idea of moving Sarah out of the crib and into her ‘big girl bed’, aka: the toddler bed in the garage.  If she doesn’t go straight to sleep in the crib she makes some scary moves but we have been dreading letting her out.  The more freedom you give a child…….well you all know how it can turn out.

Well Sarah and Rachel are so different.  When Rachel was younger and moved to a big girl bed she was so excited that she actually stayed in bed.  After a while we had some problems with her getting out but apply the right threat and she stayed in bed.  Well as I am sure you all know nothing is that easy with Sarah.  She was very excited about her bed and wanted to sleep in it but there wasn’t a threat in the world that will keep her in it.  We actually left the crib up in her room for a while as a threat but one day I put her in it and she liked it.  The next day I told her that if she didn’t stay in bed I would put her in the crib and get rid of her pretty big girl bed (which the day before she was so upset that the covers got messed up on it because then it wasn’t pretty anymore).  Well that totally backfired and she told me she didn’t want her big girl bed anymore, she wanted the crib.  Don’t you just hate it when threats backfire on you?

Anyways, she loves her big girl bed and we took the crib down and out of her room (since it was no longer a good threat).  She loves the freedom she has about getting in and out of bed.  She is slowly doing better about going to bed and not getting out.  She wakes up WAY too often in the middle of the night and comes into our room to say HI.  She is so sneaky too, you don’t even hear her but open your eyes and there she is staring at you!!  This too is getting a little bit better.  The only good thing about her waking up all night long is that she is actually taking good naps in the afternoons so I am able to get more accomplished (like catching up on my blog).

Here are some pictures of Sarah in her ‘Big Girl Bed’.