We moved Madison Claire into a toddler bed about a month ago because we caught her trying to climb out. Her crib converts to a toddler bed so we basically just took the front of the crib off and put up a small rail. The first 2 nights were a disaster - she was up at 6am standing at the top of the stairs pulling on the gate and would not go back to sleep. I posted on Facebook asking for advice and our family friend, Vicki Bachman, suggested that we turn her doorknob around so we could lock the door from the outside. We did that and it's been smooth sailing ever since! She will get out of the bed and go to the door but when she can't open it, she'll just go crawl right back into bed and go back to sleep. Thankfully, she is still sleeping until 7:30 or 8:00am! Praise the Lord!
She has been pretty cute though in terms of what she wants in her bed. She puts everything in there - blankets, baby dolls, books, etc. One morning, I woke up and she had her "popper" in the bed with her. The other morning, she woke up at 3:30am and went and got a book and was sitting up reading in her bed. You never know what you are going to find these days - one day, I looked over and found Annie in there with her!
We are proud of Madison Claire for making the transition easily and still can't believe that she is old enough to be out of her crib!
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