Scott and I have been diligently working on Kymberlyn's new "big girl" room every weekend for about the last 3 weeks. Well, I'm really too "round" to be of much help right now, so Scott's been diligently working and I've been standing sitting there while he asks me what I think we should do or what I'd like to have done next. While it has taken alot of thought to "toddler proof" a room, I think we've done a pretty decent job.
The other side of this project has been preparing Kymberlyn for the mountain of changes that will be occurring in her life in the next few months. That's made me more nervous than anything!!! While she's a very laid-back, go-with-the-flow kind of child I really didn't want to shake her world up more than I had to. So while we've been working on her new room, we've let her join us each time and "help". This has actually made her really excited -to the point of telling anybody about it who will listen, or can understand her at least!
We moved her into a bedroom across the hall from our bedroom on the second level of our home. Her nursery was on the main floor, which was VERY convenient - hence we'll be needing it for the twins! And this saved Scott the headache of trying to disassemble a crib.
I really wanted her new room to be something she would love and want to spend time in! Something very kid oriented, functional that she could call her own. I've never understood decorating a child's room in a way that's more "eye-appealing" to the adult, it just doesn't make any sense to me. So, we went all out with a theme of "Sponge Bob" for her room!!! Its one of her favorite shows and its super easy to find in-expensive decorations to bring it all together. We also bought chalkboard paint (if you haven't heard of it, I'd HIGHLY recommend checking it out) and painted a section of her wall with it.
So this weekend was last major weekend to finish up her room before she could really start trying it out. This past Friday we decided to let her get good and tired and see if she would take a nap in her new room. We moved her baby monitor in there and took our unit into the living room with us. I would have to say Scott and I were both nervous to see what would happen! haha But, it couldn't be as bad as sleep training right??? We put her in her new bed, tucked her in and shut the door.
Silence....
This accompanied more silence for the next 15 minutes until Scott couldn't handle it and had to go listen at her door in case the monitor "malfunctioned". Still silence... She slept in there for 2 hours before we heard any noise!!! SUCCESS!!!!!! The relieve I felt was unbelievable, but again, it was just a nap... We'd try it that night to see if she'd sleep through the night in there.
Now, 4 nights and 3 naps later we've had very minimal adjustment issues!!! She's woke up twice - last night one of us had to go in there and tuck her back in, but its been a relatively smooth transition otherwise. Thank goodness!!!
