The final transition from baby to toddler

Wednesday June 23rd, the girls pushed me into finally turning their cribs into toddler beds. About a month ago Brittyn had ripped her tent so much that it was non fixable, and caused the zipped to brake. We left the tent up on her bed hoping that she knew the boundaries and wouldn't climb out. She did great and never attempted to climb out; that was until Lexyn showed her it could be done!


I woke up to lots of giggling and talking over the monitor last Wednesday. I walked in to the girls room and found that Lexyn had ripped a hole in the side of her tent, climbed out, and then climbed into Brittyn's bed. They were having a great time "tic-tic-ticing" each other. So, when I layed the girls down for their nap, I told Lexyn to stay in her bed. I walked in their room just a few minutes after laying them down and found that Lexyn was in her bed but Brittyn was climbing into Lexyn's. Thanks Lex for making Brittyn aware that she could climb out of her crib! I finally came to the realization that this wasn't going to be easy but that I should transition their beds and begin teaching them to stay in their big girl beds!

Wednesday when we layed the girls down for the night, we talked up the fact that they were sleeping in big girl beds. The first few nights and nap times were awesome, resulting in maybe one or two spankings total for getting out of their beds. At that point I couldn't believe I had waited so long to transition them, this was obviously going to be easier than expected. Well, I guess the new funness had worn off because tonight it took an hour of spanking and putting Brittyn back in bed before she finally gave it up. Hopefully tonight was just a bad night and not the beginning to a new habit.








It makes me sad to think that we just made the final transition from babies to big girls; no more diapers, bottles, or cribs. But we are enjoying this big girl stage too, minus all the 2 year old fits!