Big Girl Bed!

If there is one thing I have learned about being a mom it is that every stage Lexi has gone through has gone so fast. It seems like just yesterday that we transitioned her from her cradle in our bedroom to her big crib. Well, now the crib stage has ended,

AND...

Lexi now has her own big girl bed! I'll have to admit that it was/is quite emotional for me (well, everything makes me emotional since I am pregnant!) to move her to a big bed. It seems as if she isn't as much my baby, that she is all grown up. My mom keeps telling me that this is only one of the first steps in letting go. Ugh. Lexi on the other hand didn't have any trouble saying good bye to her crib and has been extremely excited about her big girl bed! So excited in fact, that we have been woken up at 5:00 (yes, AM) every morning with "Mommy, Daddy, I wake up!" Whoa, where is the kid that was sleeping until 7:30-8:00 every morning just 2 weeks ago? Hmmmm. We have decided, because we need our sleep, to institute the "good morning" light. For those of you who are unfamiliar, this is a nightlight on a timer. Lexi is not supposed (you notice I say supposed) to get out of bed until the light comes on. It did work this morning because we set it for 5:15 to give her a chance to be successful with the "good morning" light. Our hope is to gradually be able to set it later and later as she gets more used to it. We are hoping that she is merely in love with her new found freedom and that this too shall pass! Stay tuned for more updates! Here she is, the day we got the bed.

"MY big girl bed!"
So much fun to just hang out here
Wow! It is much easier to see what is happening in the backyard now. **Note I shut and locked the window pretty much for good since I took this picture!
Her first night...what an angel
Just before she fell out of bed, hit the pillows and rolled completely underneath the bed. Yeah, the next day...we got a bed rail! How can she sleep like that?