Into the Big, Big Girl Bed…sort of

When we originally got our referral for Elspeth we thought that we would just put her right into a bed with bed rail as she was a toddler.  Then we met her and saw just how small she really was.  Enter change of plans.  Glenn phones his mom, she and his sister zip off to Ikea and bring home a crib/toddler bed combo and when we arrive home her room is home to two different sizes of bed.

This has actually worked well.  Katrine has slept in the room with her, my mom has slept there when they have been down to visit and we have slept on it when she insists on waking us up at some ungodly hour.  It has also been useful for just plan snuggling with a good book.

Monday though marked a change in the established sleeping protocol.  Elspeth insisted on the big big girl bed.  Pull out the rail.  Switch over the pillow case and top blanket because she has to have her Dora and we were off….until she woke up crying at 3 am when she moved to the little bed and then back to the big bed.  Yesterday she started out in the big bed but ended up switching to the little bed where she fell asleep crying.  Today it was back to the big, big bed but the tears appeared when we first tried to tuck her in to the little bed.  Sigh, she is truly an ox like her mom….either that or she shares some genes with my side of the family. (It happens because Katrine seems to have gotten my sleeping genes in that she rarely keeps the blankets on or sleeps in a normal position).