Milestone: Movin' on up

Preface...start here...http://fourschneiders.blogspot.com/2011/02/girls-bedroom.html (coincidentally posted 3 years ago, almost to the date). 

A recent big development at the Schneider house is Bea's transition from a crib to a toddler bed. While the longer-term goal is bunk beds for the Littles, this steal of a deal toddler bed was just what we needed, when we needed it. Nearly-three-Bea was holding on pretty tightly to her "twib," so as soon as she breathed a word about wanting a bed, we Amazon-primed the first thing we could find, before she could change her mind.

Bea's last night in her crib just about broke my heart. If you know our story, you know sweet Bea's safe arrival was anything but guaranteed, so even letting ourselves buy and set up a crib for her felt really risky. The moment we brought her home and placed her in the crib we were afraid she would never see was pretty breath-taking. So, it was pretty emotional to look back on that and tap back into those feelings on fast the night she slept in her crib for the last time.

Her transition has been really smooth for several reasons. I think this is mostly because we waited until she was ready versus forcing it upon her on our own timeline, but I think the fact that the bed is a super-stinking-cute replica of her big sister's bed also factored in to the warm reception.

Bea also loves that she can get into and out of her bed all by herself - mostly because that means she can sneak into our big bed pretty much unnoticed in the middle of the night. Sometimes, she doesn't make it quite that far before falling back asleep. Ha.