Big girl bed and carrots

So John finally talked me into getting a big girl bed (bgb) for Avery. I didn’t want to get her one while she was still napping because I knew the naps would disappear if we did. She has pretty much stopped napping and if she does nap it makes bedtime harder so we have done away with nap time and moved on to ‘quiet time.’ So yesterday when she woke up I asked her if she would like a bgb. She got so excited and said “big girl bed like Caroline.” I was surprised she knew and remembered that Caroline was in a bgb. So all day we talked about it and I told her she would have to stay in her bgb and not get out in the middle of the night. I told her we would leave her crib in her room and if she didn’t stay in her bgb she would be back in the crib. She was so excited. So shopping we went. We got her a cute little white toddler bed with a drawer underneath it. She had the biggest smile on her face while shopping and on the way home she was clapping and trying to turn around in her car seat to make sure the bgb was still back there (we forgot and took the car with us instead of the Jeep so J had to tie the trunk shut on the box of the bed). She was happier then I have ever seen her. When we got home her and John spent the next 45 minutes putting it together. After that she spent all night in her room playing with it. Opening and closing the drawer, putting her treasures in the drawer, making it, putting her babies to sleep in it. When it came bedtime it was all made pretty for her and ready to go. We read the normal couple of books, brushed her teeth and then asked her to get in bed. She pointed at her crib and said she wanted to sleep there. No talking her into sleeping in the bgb. So back to her crib all her stuff went. Someday maybe she will sleep in it. Hopefully….

Not that I am complaining but when I become a mother, never ever did I think the words “you have had enough veggies, now eat your pizza” would ever come out of my mouth. But they did, last night. After Av had 2 helpings of cut up cucumbers, a few pieces of green pepper and then 2 helpings of cooked carrots, those words came out of my mouth. No wonder she poops 4 times a day.