She came home with her own Valentine's bag, full of other Valentines from her sweet classmates. I immediately flashed back to Mrs. Pringle's first grade class where everyone taped their bags to the chalk board railing and you put Valentine's in MOST everyone else's bags (I'm sure today there is some school requirement that you have a bring a Valentine for each child in the class. I'm all for including everyone, but that just wasn't the way it was back in '87). I'm not a huge Valentine's day fan , but I really enjoyed remembering the fun traditions in school, and watching the kids have fun. If only it wasn't an overly commercialized, manufactured excuse for a holiday, things would be complete.
Now--Calling all MOMS! I need HELP please!!! I mentioned previously we are getting ready to move Emma to her big girl room. (She is almost 25 mos. now and the baby is due May 19). I need advice about whether to go ahead and move her to a "big girl" bed, or whether we should keep her in a crib. If we move her, will I be up 45 times a night with a newborn and a 2 year old who doesn't stay in her bed? Or do I have enough time to threaten her with her life train her to stay in the bed until I get her out before No. 2 arrives? And will I have the patience/stamina to threaten train her when I'm 30+ weeks pregnant and already slightly cranky uncomfortable? PUH-LEASE leave me a comment or email me with any advice or suggestions!!! THANKS! :)
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We moved Clayton to a big bed right around his 2nd birthday and he did wonderfully. He rarely got out of bed without calling us to come get him. I suggest the bed route. I'm sure sweet little Emma will do fabulously!
Sorry about the deleted comment -- my spelling isn't the best these days! Anywho, love the Valentine's treats!
I think you should move to the bed. It wasnt as hard as I thought. We potty trained first, so M was 27 months. She stayed in bed most of the time, and a few threats work. My only suggestion is when you make the transition. I would take the crib down/out of the room. Otherwise she will probably want to sleep in it. The only time she gets out now is first thing in the morning when she comes straight to our room.
We moved Alex about 25 months too. I'm gonna be honest about our experience...ok? Naps were HARD. I had doorknob covers on his closet so he couldn't get to his toys and there were some times I had to take all the books out of his bookshelf because he would get out of bed and read them AND I was NOT giving up naps so easily:) Night was better. There is this thing called a good nite lite (goodnitelite.com) that we have just recently gotten that I wish I had from the beginning. You set it for her bedtime and her wake up time. And you train her so she knows when she sees the sun in the morning she can get out of her room. We are still kind of training because he loves to come visit us at 3am but I think we are about over that hump:) Sorry for the long comment! Hope it helps! Good luck! Avery was born in June and we were done with bed time struggles way before she came so I think you have plenty of time.
moving kate to a big girl bed was not a big deal at all like i thought it would be and she was shy of 2.5 years old. i bet it won't be bad at all.
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