I thought we'd start with night time and get that established before I tried naps. She can see better for naps and I don't want her climbing out after a 20 minute snooze. Right now we've got a good thing going with naps where she goes down willingly and sleeps at least an hour and a half. I'm not in a hurry to mess that up.
On Wednesday, day 1: Tanner put her in the new bed at bedtime. She snuggled in and didn't even act like anything was different. She slept the whole night till 6:15am, when she woke up and cried, "daddy, daddy, binky, binky." I think she was scared because she woke up in a new place. Tanner went in to her to try to coax her back to sleep for at least another hour. She stood up like she would do in her crib and just cried, "get out! Get out!" meaning that she wanted to get out of bed. She didn't even realize that she could climb out of this one by herself. Sadly, we didn't get that extra hour of also we are hoping for.
Day 2: I can't remember all that well. I guess because it was a couple of days ago and apparently nothing that noteworthy happened. I believe she slept like normal till 7ish, climbed out, and came to cuddle with tanner in the morning.
Day 3: I checked the monitor at 5 and saw that she didn't have her blanket or binky which often means we will have an early morning when she realizes it. So I snuck into her room like a ninja, recovered her, and placed her binky very close to her hand so she could easily put it back in when she wanted. Just as I was closing the door behind me as I left, she saw me and started to cry for me to come sit by her as she fell asleep again. Dang! So I went back and sat on the floor next to her bed forever because I wanted her to be all the way asleep before I attempted to leave again. This time I made a safe escape. The morning was pretty great tho. When she woke up at 7ish , she looked around and said, "bed, beddy, bed" in her happy, well rested voice. She climbed out of bed and said, "Yay!" and went straight downstairs. She came back up about 5 or 10 minutes later, said hi to tanner in bed and went back downstairs to watch a show on the tablet (cus she knows how to turn one on all by herself) for another quiet hour. Can you believe it?! I didn't have to wake up with her and go entertain her. She actually let us sleep without causing any trouble or whining or anything. I felt a little guilty around 8 and went down to be with her anyway.
Day 4: Zoey woke up at 4:15 to realize she didn't have her blanket on anymore and her binky was lost. She screamed, "daddy, daddy!", (notice what a daddy's girl she is) hurried to climb out of bed, and ran to our room. Tanner took her back to her room and lulled her back to almost - asleep. But she noticed when he tried to leave the room and tried to climb out of bed again. He ended up putting her in her crib so he could get away without her following him. She didn't mind when he left after that.
Day 5: She has been cranky all day. We had to put her in her crib to sleep tonight because she won't stay in her bed and had to cry for a minute before falling asleep.
Day 6: I tried to put her in her bed, but she stood up and begged for her crib. I didn't feel the need to fight with her about it, so in the crib she went. She was happy to be there and laid down immediately.
Hmm.. Maybe she's not really ready to grow up in that way yet. I wonder if the runny noise that started today has anything to do with it. Although I would love to not have to go get her out of her crib every morning, it's not worth it if we have to go in to her at 4am instead. I'm okay with waiting a little longer. I'll just update as we go.
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