Since the new baby is coming soon and I use a crib for my babies from day 1 we decided it was time to transfer Claudia into her big bed. Madison was very excited for Claudia to start sleeping in her room. Since Madison normally goes to bed with the light on (she needs time to herself to look at books and wind down before she goes to sleep) we had to get her a reading lamp that we could put on her bed so that she did not keep Claudia awake or wake her up. The transition to a big bed has been relatively smooth! We put her to bed about an hour before the other kids (which she needs because she is now only taking one nap.) She gets her blankets and her music and off she goes. It's nice that she is still too small to attempt to open the door and she doesn't even bang on it to come out. It's great! Then when it is time for Madison to go to bed Claudia is asleep and Madison just uses her little reading light that is clamped to her bed and she's happy as can be.
Now naps have been a bit more difficult! She's not totally excited about the idea but has been doing okay. There have only been 2 days over the past 2 weeks when she did not take a nap at all and of course those were Sundays when I did not have a choice but to get her up and feed her so we could be on time to church. Other days her nap was only 30 minutes. But we are slowly working towards longer naps. And now she is starting to fall asleep in her bed instead of on the floor. I did have to take out ALL Madison's toys so that she would not have any distractions! It seems to be helping.
The only problem that I am having is that EVERY day without fail she poops about 15 minutes after I put her in bed. It does not matter if I put her down at 10 or 11:30. She still poops. I've been mastering the art of changing her diaper while she is sleeping. It seems to work most of the time! Silly girl!!!!
