And what a present day it is! Mallory has graduated from a Crib to a Big Girl Bed with absolutely no complications. Well.... almost no complications!
We are going on day 2 of her both napping and sleeping in her bed. My parents have a little toddler bed here, so it was a perfect transition. She LOVES her bed! Almost too much! All day, we have to keep her OUT of it! She keeps doing the fake stretch and yawn, and announcing "I am sooooo tired" Before dashing off to get in her bed. She no kidding does this about every 20 minutes or so when at the house. We have to struggle to keep her in an activity where she forgets about her new awesome bed.
Now, I know many of you moms are probably like "Great! Let her go! If she loves it why not?" I am just worried that she will not associate it with sleeping if we let her play in it throughout the day. So for now the rules are that she has to be with a grown up when she gets IN her bed and with a grown up when she gets OUT of bed. So far so good.
To test her limits this morning, I decided to let her talk for 10-20 minutes like she always did in her crib. I just wanted to see if she'd stay in the bed like we asked her to, or if she would come wandering into my room. Mallory behaved as she always has in her crib, just talking and role-playing with her dolls and stuffed toys until I came to get her. Hopefully I am not jinxing myself by thinking this is going so well.
Now that I have made many of you throw up thinking about how easy this all seems, here is where I become normal, and need MUCH pity! Mallory is STILL not potty trained!!! She is SO interested, but also SO defiant!!! We talked to her about the Panty Fairy the other day, and how when Mallory feels like she is ready, she leaves all her diapers for the Panty Fairy, and the Fairy will come and leave beautiful big girl panties and a present!
Well, we talked it up TOO much, and Mallory wanted to do it THAT NIGHT! We helped her make a bag for the Panty Fairy, and she put all of her diapers in. Then, we put on a pair of Big Girl Panties for the evening..... then another.... then another. Needless to say, the idea did not click that she had to STAY DRY for the Panty Fairy to come.
My mother, father and I stayed up that night until midnight drafting a note from the Panty Fairy explaining why she just could not leave big girl panties yet. She wants Mallory to keep trying and leave out her diapers again when she can prove she can stay clean and dry. We all laughed SO HARD for 2 hours as we talked about how to tell a 3 year old the fairy didn't leave what we said she would!
I am glad we can laugh about it, but we are still SO frustrated! ALL your prayers are appreciated as we try and learn how to help Mallory achieve this important milestone. She starts a Preschool this Fall that needs them to be potty trained- maybe this summer will be it! Mallory has always been a very easy kid to transition to the next phase, as she did with her bottle, the pacifier, the carseat, the bed, etc... which makes this difficult transition all the more frustrating for us!
Well, one milestone at a time, I guess! Big Girl Bed..... Check! Now we need to focus on the Big Girl Potty.......
