There have been some milestones along the path of Leilani's life that have held a lot of significance for me and others that I feel are no big deal. But this step, to me, was huge.
Mike and I have been talking about when Leilani should move from sleeping in her crib to sleeping in a toddler bed. We know that the general idea is to move a child to out of a crib as soon as they outgrow it, they can climb out of it, or generally around age two. But the other night while I was busy working on something, Mike was bored. He disappeared for a while into Leilani's room and I assumed the two of them were just playing. Then Mike walks into our room holding a support piece from Leilani's crib. What?!? Turns out he was halfway done with removing the front of Leilani's crib. So I just went with it.
I was a little perplexed as to how this would work out. Leilani is after all only 19 months old. Is she really ready for this step? I was concerned that she'd just roll out of bed onto the floor in the middle of the night and all hell would break loose. We didn't have a safety rail to stop that from happening, so after we put her down for bed, my eyes and ears were glued to the baby monitor. I couldn't sleep all night. I was waking up every half hour. Thankfully, she managed to stay on the bed all night and in the morning she just got up, crawled out of bed, and started playing with her toys. It was amazing to see.
I immediately went out and bought a safety rail in the morning.
It's been four nights now, and everything has gone smoothly. No night walking, no confusion, no problems at all.
I am so proud of my BIG girl!
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