Big girl bed!

My baby is all grown up! She has her very own toddler bed now! I almost cried while making her bed! Her bedtime is in a hour...then the fun will begin! I left the pack n play up next to her big girl bed just in case tonight gets to be too much. She was so excited while I was making the bed, I put the mattress pad on, she had to get on the bed. Then, she got off when I had to put the sheet on, and then got back on it. She pointed at all of her babies and stuffed animals that she wanted and put them on the bed. Then she layed down with her blanket and kept saying it was her bed! VERY depressing for me, but she is so excited about it!

She didn't take a nap today, so bedtime is around 7-7:30 when she doesn't take a nap. I figured tonight since I had to get her accustomed to her new bed, I wo uld go for 7. She walked downstairs, was so excited to see her bed. She got right into bed, got all of her stuffed animals and put them where she wanted them. I covered her up with the quilt and then her blanket. And then, it hit...the reality of her not sleeping in her old bed. She saw it sitting there at the foot of her new bed and wanted in. She pointed to it and said, "Mommy, my bed." I had to try to explain to her that she was in her new big girl bed and showed her where all of her stuff was. She wanted NOTHING to do with the new bed. She cried and cried. I had to sit with her for 15 minutes until she was calm. She fell asleep for about 20 minutes and then woke up. I went back down there and she was sitting up in bed crying. Her bear had fallen onto the floor and she couldn't reach it. So, I tucked her back into bed and now hopefully she is out for the night. I am not quite sure who is having more of a difficult time with this...her or me!!!