OMG big changes!!

[rivka]

We went to Ikea this weekend and bought Alex a "big-girl bed." For months we'd been telling her that when she was three she would sleep in a big-girl bed. With her birthday coming up on Friday, it was time.

She was delighted with her bed in the store, and was crushed that we took home flat-pack boxes instead of the floor model. Every day since Saturday, she's asked when we were going to put her bed together. We were waiting for the bedding. The comforter and waterproof mattress pad showed up yesterday, followed by the sheets today. So tonight, after dinner, we assembled the bed.



She was nothing but excited - in transports of glee, actually - until Michael started disassembling the crib. "Where am I going to sleep, though?"

"In your big-girl bed."

"Am I a big girl?" she asked nervously. When I told her that she was, she looked dubious.

Just before stories, she told me she wanted her crib, "because I think it's beauty-ful." I said something noncommittal, and we settled down to read a stack of books which just happened to show happy scenes of children going to sleep in beds.

We turned off the lights, turned on the lullabye CD and the vaporizer and the star lights on her ceiling. I asked her if she wanted "big-girl bed books" to replace her former "crib books." She did. But she rejected one of the former crib books: "That's not a big-girl book."

Digging Up Dinosaurs turned out to be a big-girl book. I sat in the rocking chair and watched her page through it in the dim light of her ceiling stars, until she finally fell asleep.

She looks so small in that enormous bed.

Comments

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Eee!!! Elena was so excited right from the beginning. It took her a week or two to realize she could get out by herself - and now she regularly brings toys or books (sometimes, all the books in her room end up on the bed, and there's hardly enough room for her) into her bed after we've left her. And a million dolls and stuffed animals regularly live there now.

I love Alex's bedding - gorgeous colors.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I love Alex's bedding - gorgeous colors.

She loves it. I'm afraid I don't like yellow very much. *sigh*

That's such a great userpic of Elena. Our girls are really, really growing up.

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

She loves it. I'm afraid I don't like yellow very much. *sigh*

Based on your photos, I suspect that shade is much more flattering to Alex :-).

It was a major step in my self-knowledge when I understood that I looked much better in purples and rich pinks than the browns and oranges my mother loved so much.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I'll tell Sarah that we don't call her "Baby Alex" any more, because she's a big girl.

Sleep well, big-girl Alex.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

She'll grow into it, I'm sure.

That's a very nice looking bed, and a charming comforter.

[ex-serenejo.livejournal.com]

*snif*

[baldanders.livejournal.com]

It's hard to explain, but this post moved me.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Wait till you see all the tiny kindergarten children. FAR too tiny to be at school all day.

[roadnotes.livejournal.com]

Ah... how sweet, and such changes so fast.

[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

So sweet.

Big-girl bed

[hazelchaz]

Twin size, I assume? All the nifty print sheets come in twin size, rarely the larger...

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Today's WashPost Home section says yellow is "in."