I wondered about this for a long time: How would she do it? She’s so attached to her crib. She loves her sleep sac. And she polices us whenever we try to vary her routine at all. Try to put the penguin stuffed animal in the crib, and she says ‘penguin *out*!”. Try to put a new toy in her room, and she points to the door before falling asleep and says “Out!”. We’ve been reading books there for a long time. She loves it. But when we ask her if she wants to sleep in her bed, she says “No, crib.” I’ve been asking advice from my other mom friends for months, gosh, how would she do it? Would she climb out? Would she complain? .

Well, one day Ada was just ‘ready’. She tried it for a nap. That evening she was sleeping on through until morning: not a peep or complaint. A constant reminder that we need to breathe and relax to the process in all things: there’s no need to push, everything has its time. I think it helped that we had house guests last weekend. She saw the 1 year old baby sleeping in her crib, and she saw the 4 year old boy sleeping in her bed. I think she made the association. The big girl bed was for her. Thank you Aden (age 4) and Sila (age 1)!

Ada sleeping in her big girl bed

Ada’s learning to try out feeding herself with her own spoon. Lots of new coordination underway. She really loves yogurt and says “yaaghrrrt yammmi, yammi, yammi” = (yogurt yummy!).