Big Girl Bed

After much ado, including several unsuccessful trips to Ikea, lots of internet research, one perfect but back-ordered "modern" toddler bed, and many plans to build our own, this weekend Dave simply got in the car, returned to Ikea, and came home in record time with one Kritter bed, one mattress (the last one in stock, he reported with glee), and one white sheet. He put it together in the living room while Clio napped, and I brought her down for the big reveal. She thought this was great.

Here she is as we said "bye bye crib," and rolled it into Eleri's room.


She patiently read a book on her old crib mattress while we brought the frame in,


then helped Daddy to get the slats in place.


Trying it out was a joy

(less so when we told her that jumping on it was not part of the deal.)


The easy part may have ended there, though. The first night, her leg got stuck between the bedframe and the wall. The next night, she was up until all hours doing god knows what: we're so conditioned from our age-old policy to leave her up there for 2 hours at napttime, sleeping or not, that I'm not sure it occurred to either of us to intervene. Last night, we did think to take her toys out of there as we turned out the light. But tonight, we heard a big thump around 9:30, and when Dave did go in there, we confirmed that she had fallen out of bed.

I'm sure that, soon enough, this too will be like an old habit.

Next up: getting Eleri into the crib without Clio wailing "take her out!"

One thing at a time.