Big Girl Bed

Yes, we fell into the habit of Korbyn coming into our bed EVERY night.  She would go to her bed and fall asleep by herself with absolutely no problem.  But then about midnight every night she would make her way into our bed.

She is not a peaceful sleeper either.  She talks in her sleep, she ends up upside down in bed, she'll kick the covers everywhere, I've even woken up to Colton yelping because she kicked him in the chest.  Needless to say, we weren't getting much rest.

I tried taking her back to her bed when she would come to ours and she would just throw an absolute fit.  Then it would wake Colton up and eventually she would just end up back in our bed anyway.  I knew the only solution would be a "big girl bed."  Not that the actual bed would make a difference, but just that there was some sort of change.

I've been looking for a white cast iron bed for quite some time now and just never came across one that I really liked or they're super expensive for the real cast iron and I wasn't willing to pay that much for a kid's bed.  We went to IKEA on Saturday, which Colton hated, and had her bed set up that night.  If you're familiar with IKEA you know that they have all the furniture on display and then you have to write down the aisle and bin number off the tag of the product you want and then go into the warehouse and get it...not get in the warehouse and then change your mind!  I had found this online and fell in love with it and the whole bed was only $119!!!  So I plan on getting her a full size and figure that's plenty of room for her to grow into.  We get into the warehouse and Colton decides that it's better if we get her a queen size instead.  Well there was absolutely no way I was backtracking to find the right numbers, but it was the same product just a different size so it wasn't too hard to find.  I know a queen size is big for a two year old, but she will probably have this bed for a while.

The first night wasn't too bad.  We followed our same bed time routine and about 20 minutes after I left her room she was sitting up in bed calling "mommy!"  I'm sure it was all still a little scary.  So I went in and laid down with her and the minute she realized I wasn't giving in and taking her to my bed she went crazy.  She even started telling me to put her bed in the trash, that she didn't want it!  She wanted to sleep with mommy in mommy's bed.  I finally coaxed her to get under the covers and I whispered stories that I was just making up as I went along and she fell asleep a few minutes later.  She woke up two more times that night coming to our bed but each time I went in and laid back down with her until she fell asleep and would then come back to our bed.  Last night was basically the same, but she went to sleep immediately without me having to lay with her.  So my fingers are crossed that we can stay consistent with this because I know eventually she'll get over wanting to sleep with mommy.