OMG big changes!!

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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.

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