Big girl bed

So I broke the cardinal rule of parenting - letting your child sleep with you!! It all started when we were having threats at Ameritas and were surrounded by police everyday, were watched as we walked to our car - and basically just felt so insecure about going to work - and really life in general. Then there were many break ins happening, and with these pregnancy hormones I just gave in to my weakness...ANYHOW - I wanted my baby close to me so I had her sleep with me. I thought it would be a one night thing...but it turns out bed time was just so much easier when she just came to bed with me. Lame excuse...I know - and I am the first to admit it. Now, the process of getting her back to her room had to happen before this new baby came home - or we would be in a bedtime nightmare for who knows how long. So the first night I put Cam in her room - and it was an hour (probably more like 15 minutes...because I felt so awful) of screaming...sweating...throwing up - basically just not the way I wanted my baby to fall asleep. So I gave in. Again she crawled in bed with me...and we both slept very peacefully. The next night I knew I had to try harder. So I layed in bed with her until she fell asleep and then I went to my own bed. Sounds easy enough...NOPE. Around 2 o'clock here the little princess was crawling in bed with me, scolding me for leaving her. Night number three - it was Dads turn. Camdyn had already told daddy that she wanted him to sleep with her...because mommy leaves. Nice - my two year old daughter is emotionally scarred because I left her alone. Needless to say daddy stayed with her all night - and guess what that really doesnt solve our problem!! So night number 4 I tried reasoning with her, obviously she understands what is going on...since she is tattling on me to everyone that I left her alone in her room. So I had a long talk about how all the other girls at daycare have there own room, they sleep in there alone, I talked to her about how she is a big girl now, we decorated her room just for her, basically just confirmed that this is what should be happening and that I think she can handle it. So I read her a book, she reads it back to me...I tell her I will stay in there 5 more minutes and then I will be in the living room. She says to me...ok mommy but leave the door open. So I give her a kiss, say goodnight and leave the door open. I go to the living room and she doesnt follow - I check on her 5 minutes later and she is asleep. The little girl just has to be reasoned with!! Apparantly the door being shut was a big problem (if you remember a post from before where she used to sleep on the floor in front of her door...she just wanted to see under the door to make sure we were there). Anyhow - after the long post...we finally have our little girl sleeping in her big girl bed...in her own room!! Now to transition the dogs out of our room :)!

Rocky protecting her

Booker making sure she is ok!