Big Girl

So proud of my baby girl. Between all the potty training, teeth brushing, and sleeping in her big girl bed, she is conquering it all! 

I didn’t get her to fall asleep last night until about 9:45pm, her first night in the big girl bed. But considering we didn’t even get IN the bed until almost 9, that’s not bad. Eventually I laid down next to her and she hugged her Daisy doll, and went to sleep. I left the room before 10. I turned the monitor up higher than normal, expecting her to wake up and need some help falling back to sleep in a new place. But I woke up at 8 and hadn’t heard from her all night! I went to check on her, and it looked like she was just waking up. She sat up and played with her dolls and I crept away. I went in and played with her at 8:10 and she was proud of herself, saying "no crib!"

Then this morning she wanted to go on the potty. She is really starting to ask for the potty on her own several times a day, which is an improvement from me suggesting the potty every time. Man, she’s growing up!

Which would make me sad, if I didn’t have another baby girl in my belly 🙂

When Isla and Lucy are both hitting new, big kid milestones, now THAT is going to feel bittersweet! And of course it does with Lucy too, right now. But I feel less sad and more proud of her, and proud of myself, for reaching the goals we set out to reach before the baby was born. To me its a sign that she’s healthy and smart. Her language development is insane right now. All these things she’s doing demonstrate that she is stable and happy and able to move away from baby things and be a big girl! It makes me happy, though I get sad when I see her little baby pictures and realize that it feels like yesterday she was a little nursling, cooing and cuddling.

Right now she’s listening to toddler radio on Pandora and dancing, and singing when its something she knows. I love watching her brain comprehend things.