Sophia's Transition

This was a big week of transitions for Sophia.  For several months now, I have been wanting to move Sophia out of her crib and into a "big girl" bed.  I wanted to make this transition as smooth as possible (much like we did with Samantha), but there were a couple of hurdles that we needed to overcome first.  The biggest decision that we needed to make involved WHERE we would be putting this new bed.  Would she share a room with Samantha or stay in her old room?  This basis of this decision came down to how fast we thought that Steve would be able to finish the two bedrooms down in the basement.

After much debate, we opted to move Sophia into Sam's room.  It is a huge bedroom, and Samantha was completely okay with this decision.  We ordered new bedroom furniture and a set of matching beds and told the girls about their new sleeping arrangements.  With their two mattresses down on the floor temporarily until the new beds arrive at the warehouse and can be delivered, everything seems to be going as smoothly as I had hoped.

Each girl claimed their respective spot in the bedroom,and we have had four successful naptimes and bedtimes with the girls sleeping peacefully.  The first night (Monday night), Sophia got out of bed three times in the first hour, but we put her back down each time, and by 9 pm, she was sound asleep.  The next night, she only got out of bed once in the very beginning and then stayed there the rest of the night.  The last two nights have been a complete success.

Pretending to sleep right after we first put her on her new mattress:

This new transition was BIG, and I am so proud of her for adapting as quickly as she did.  She went from sleeping without a comforter or a pillow in the security of a closed-in crib to sleeping in a completely different room with a pillow and comforter on a big mattress.  The good news about all of this is that if she falls out of bed, she will only tumble down about 4 inches to the ground (and there is a pillow there to prevent that)!  Once the beds are delivered, we will put up a safety bar on the side as an extra precaution.

This was taken the first night when I went to check on her.  She was sound asleep:

As proud as I am of Sophia, I am even more proud of Samantha and how accepting she has been in all of this.  She loves sharing a room with her sister and she is so good about keeping quiet once I put them down for naptime or bedtime.  She lays still and lets Sophia settle in with minimal distractions.  If she gets up before Sophia, she quietly slips out of the room and lets Sophia rest a little longer. 

I am just so grateful and so thankful for my girls that are growing up so quickly ...