What a big girl!

We've been talking up what being a "big girl" means...how big girls go on the potty and not in their diapers or underwear and they also sleep in "big girl beds". :) She's loved the idea of being a big girl and has done a great job with potty training. We've found that by keeping her naked, she'll ALWAYS go on the potty. So we did that this past week and she was accident free and even running in from the outdoors to go on the potty. So proud of her!! Today I put underwear on her and we've only had 1 accident - all the other times have been on the potty. We told her that once she's going on the potty all the time, she can get a big girl bed.

So we've taken Jenna to a few furniture stores to look at "big girl" beds so that she knows what exactly that means. Then we went to Walmart and picked up some princess bedding - she LOVES her princesses! After doing some price comparison, we just couldn't justify buying brand new beds - let me back up...we've been planning on buying bunk beds since we're planning on having a 3rd child at some point and realize Jenna and Grant will have to share a room. Since their rooms aren't that big (about 10x10), putting 2 twin beds in 1 room would make it tight and we'd lose a lot of floor space. So we decided a bunk bed would be better. We really wanted one that would come apart so we could have 2 separate twin beds if we wanted. So needless to say, we just couldn't justify buying a bunk bed from a furniture store. So we went to Craigslist. We found a bunk bed that we liked at a price that was great! We went Saturday to pick it up and put it in her room on Sunday afternoon.

We kept it a surprise - she knew Drew was assembling it, but we didn't let her see it until it was assembled and the bed was made. She was so excited!




I was a little fearful how our evening and night would go now that she has the freedom to get out of bed on her own, but she did WONDERFUL! I watched her on a video monitor and initially after we left the room she laid there and then sat up on the edge of her bed looking around. Then she slowly stood up and it looked as if she was tip-toeing over to her toys. Haha! So I went in and told her it was bedtime and that she was supposed to stay in bed unless she needed to go potty. I tucked her in, kissed her, and left the room. She got up once more, but then after we tucked her back in and explained it to her again, she didn't get up the rest of the night. So proud of her! She's becoming such a big girl!