Ava's Big Girl Bed!

Ava made the transition to a "Big Girl Bed" on Easter Sunday. (I don't know what we were thinking moving the rooms around Easter morning, but we did). It was time for Noah to go in his own room, which meant that Ava had to give up her crib. I was really nervous about how it was going to go. We got her mattress a week prior and I bought some bedding for her.We put the mattress in the office/guest room/craft room. She played on it all week and LOVED doing so. She would say, "follow me, I show you Ava big girl bed".

Here is a picture of her new bed in her room.

She slept in it for the first time at her nap time. I didn't want the first time to be at night because I was really not sure how it was going to go. I told her that she had to call for mommy when she wanted to get up. She is going through a "climbing/Ava do it" stage so she was climbing in and out of this bed at the head of it. We put a stool there to help her out. She still sleeps in a sleep sack and her nap time, one that doesn't have feet, so I really didn't want her getting out on her own. As I was reading her books before bed, I could see her look over at her bed a couple of times. After I was done, I put her in her bed, told her that I loved her and would get her up in a little bit and that she should call for me when she was ready to get up.  I turned off the lights and left the room. An hour and 45 minutes later, she was done napping and she called out for me. She did perfect. Nighttime came and again, I was nervous, but she did great. She called out for me as I closed her door and I went back in and told her that it was ok and that it was night night time and that I would come and get her in the morning. About 15 minutes later, she called out again and Mike went in. After that she slept through the night and called out for us in the morning. I hope that this is what it will be like going forward. Yay! yay! for Ava.