tonight was a big night for miss thing! we have known for awhile that she would do great in a big girl bed since she sleeps on air mattresses or in a bed at nanny & vanpa’s with no problem. the real challenge was that we were combining switching her crib to a toddler bed with take her “acis” away. I think I put that rule on there more to force myself to do it than anything else 
we had been talking to her for a long time about how big girls don’t use acis and while she listened, I could tell she wasn’t really on board. the aci was her comfort and was guaranteed to always calm her down which made it hard to take away. we decided to try the "give your acis to another baby” strategy because she has a sweet heart and loves taking care of babies. luckily, one of our good friends had just had a little one so we started talking about giving her acis to baby evelynn. she thought it was a great idea and we thought we were home free until about 5 seconds later when she then said “and I get new ones!!” with a huge smile on her face…haha!!
all of that to say that honestly, we had just been putting it off but today, we decided to bite the bullet. I knew she could do it but wasn’t sure how much stubbornness we would have to withstand before she gave in {she did get that stubborn streak from somewhere after all
tonight, while brian was converting her bed, I handed her a pink gift bag and asked her to go and get her acis out of her bed to give to baby evelynn…and she did it!!!!! no crying or fussing!
she is now asleep and apart from a little singing and talking before going to sleep, we have had no issues!!! I am so proud of my little girl! apparently her sweet heart won out over her stubbornness
gathering her acis…
”helping”
ready for bed! our big girl is super excited!!!!
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