Such a big girl
Eliana is quickly moving from toddler to big girl. In only just a couple short weeks she has become more mature, exploded with words and songs, gained more confidence, and is soaking in the the things I am teaching her like a sponge!!
Last weekend, I finally took some 2 year photos of Eliana around the house. I wanted her to wear her birthday outfit because she and I love it so very much. I WISH I could have gotten a good picture of her twirling her skirt! Here are a few of my favorites from that day.





She has gotten really good at using the potty, too! I recently read Toilet Training in Less than a Day (a book that was all the rage in the late 70s) to try to pick up some hints on how to get Eliana to tell me when she needed to use the potty. It helped, but she's still not telling me. She will, however, go to the bathroom when she needs to potty and she will go through the whole process from start to finish all by herself!! There's been a couple of times that I didn't even know she went potty until she came out of the bathroom! Way to go Eliana! She has been accident free for the past several days!
Since she has embraced the responsibility of toileting, and she has been so great about going to bed the past couple weeks, we felt it was time to transition her to her big girl bed. Jimbo took the crib rail off yesterday and I told her there was a surprise for her in her room. Probably not the best wording when your child equates the word "surprise" with presents! She cried when she found out there was no present, but was excited when we finally got her to understand that the surprise was her new big girl bed!
She climbed in and out, over and over. She put all of her animals to bed, and then her babies. She took book after book into her bed to read. She just loved it!
Now our crib does not have a toddler bed rail option even though it is sold as a 3-in-1 crib. So I scoured the internet to find a solution, because we definitely didn't want her to roll out of bed in the middle of the night!
Option 1: a $70 universal convertible crib bed rail from Amazon.
Option 2: a pool noodle cut to size and placed under the sheet.
Well, we can't shell out $70 right now, and there are no pool noodles in the stores, yet. So I rolled a large beach towel and placed it under her sheet. And we put pillows on the floor next to the bed in case she rolled over the towel. You can sort of see both in this picture.

It worked! She successfully slept through her first night in her big girl bed and stayed in bed until we woke her for church this morning! Here she is modeling her new sleeping arrangement.
We didn't get her any fancy new bedding. The plan is for me to make a quilt and a few throw pillows to match the valence and dust ruffle I made over the summer. Now, if I could just come up with a pattern! I'll post pictures when I complete the ensemble. In the mean time, here is a bow holder I made to hold Eliana's bow collection. I also made several of the bows. So much cheaper than buying them!

Last weekend, I finally took some 2 year photos of Eliana around the house. I wanted her to wear her birthday outfit because she and I love it so very much. I WISH I could have gotten a good picture of her twirling her skirt! Here are a few of my favorites from that day.





She has gotten really good at using the potty, too! I recently read Toilet Training in Less than a Day (a book that was all the rage in the late 70s) to try to pick up some hints on how to get Eliana to tell me when she needed to use the potty. It helped, but she's still not telling me. She will, however, go to the bathroom when she needs to potty and she will go through the whole process from start to finish all by herself!! There's been a couple of times that I didn't even know she went potty until she came out of the bathroom! Way to go Eliana! She has been accident free for the past several days!
Since she has embraced the responsibility of toileting, and she has been so great about going to bed the past couple weeks, we felt it was time to transition her to her big girl bed. Jimbo took the crib rail off yesterday and I told her there was a surprise for her in her room. Probably not the best wording when your child equates the word "surprise" with presents! She cried when she found out there was no present, but was excited when we finally got her to understand that the surprise was her new big girl bed!
She climbed in and out, over and over. She put all of her animals to bed, and then her babies. She took book after book into her bed to read. She just loved it!
Now our crib does not have a toddler bed rail option even though it is sold as a 3-in-1 crib. So I scoured the internet to find a solution, because we definitely didn't want her to roll out of bed in the middle of the night!
Option 1: a $70 universal convertible crib bed rail from Amazon.
Option 2: a pool noodle cut to size and placed under the sheet.
Well, we can't shell out $70 right now, and there are no pool noodles in the stores, yet. So I rolled a large beach towel and placed it under her sheet. And we put pillows on the floor next to the bed in case she rolled over the towel. You can sort of see both in this picture.

It worked! She successfully slept through her first night in her big girl bed and stayed in bed until we woke her for church this morning! Here she is modeling her new sleeping arrangement.


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