BIG GIRL

sooo....it's becoming more and more real that we have a big girl on our hands. in may, out of nowhere, one monday morning, isabelle decided she wanted to use the potty...this was in the midst of me being crazy sick with pregnancy and i was just not expecting to do it quite this soon. so....the journey began. i had not read one book on potty training and i felt quite inadequate at the job in helping peppy. so...it kinda was like she was potty trained at home but i would let her use diapers when we went out. we then were part of a month long course in church planting at the bible college so i kinda just threw potty training out the window b/c i didnt want to put that on the girl watching all the kids. well, this past week i decided i needed to start taking her out with panties b/c we are about to travel back east and i need to be confident in her "keeping her panties dry" skills. thus far, she has boosted my confidence. monday, we traveled a lot of the day in the car from morning till 8:00pm....not one accident. tuesday, we went to some friends house for dinner...not one accident. etc. etc. i think she is pretty much potty trained. i still put a diaper on her for nap and night night...just b/c i personally am not ready to figure out when to have her stop drinking. like i said, this whole thing is kinda new to me and we are just stumbling around. but i'm proud of her for taking the initiative....here's to my girl in big girl panties!!!
then....i believe it was on saturday...we woke up around 8:15am to peppy coming to our room telling us she slept good and she was being silly. i think i was thrilled i got to sleep in that i didnt care she climbed out of her crib and came to our room. the next morning...it was 6:00am. ohhhh no! for nap time, she would not stay in her crib. she seriously probably got out 10 times. we tried EVERYTHING to get her to stay in her crib. nothing was working...she was a determined lil girl. i was hoping this was just a "try out my boundaries" kinda day and i'd wake up the next day to my 7:00am normalcy. ooohhh no, once again, at 6:00am she comes in our room. she had also gone to bed that night past 9:00 so i knew she was starting a bad habit. i was mad. after a few times of trying to keep her in there, i had este get out of bed, change the locks on her door (to where we could lock it from the outside) and we converted her crib to a toddler bed with a rail. i was so mad i wasn't even sad at the changes coming.
so, im here to tell you, that she slept great for her nap yesterday...did not try to get out, and this morning i had to go in her room at 8:00am to make sure she was still alive. she was just laying in her bed as content as ever. ahhhh, can you hear my relief. she got up and gave me a big hug and said, "i slept goood!" i reckon...13 hours of sleep and anybody could say they slept good.
here's to my big girl, in a big girl bed, with big girl panties. muahhh!