My parents got Jilli a toddler bed for her birthday after months of her saying she wanted a princess bed. Of course my child picked out a bed at Babies R Us that is more then our car payment, but we talked some reason into her and compromised for a bed that was still princess but but at a much better price :)
We have had her bed since mid December, however there were some things that needed to get done before I was ready to put it up. I never planned on being a parent that room shared (we have a nursery that is still set up, just now used as the piling grounds for baby gear we are not currently using) but with all of Jillian's medical stuff it is much easier to room share. Honestly if she was in a different room I am not sure that Brent and I would wake up to her pump at 2am. There are also plenty of nights were I lay and listen to her breath. There are many nights that her breathing has woken me up, and I would not want her in the other room and miss when she started to struggle to breath (esp since we don't have a nice pulse ox machine). The baby will also be in our room with us, at least for a while (I like as little effort needed as possible for middle of the night feedings). I wanted to re-arrange our room before we added another bed to it, but I also wanted to not just move the furniture around but also deep clean the room. We worked on it a little bit here and a little bit there (removed 4 trash bags of clothing out of the closets) and a couple of weeks ago I moved furniture (yes I was dumb one day while Brent was at work and moved everything by myself, I payed for that choice in pain for days, Brent was not very happy that I did not wait for his help) The past couple of weeks has been a lot of running around and frankly I have been rather tired. I am still wondering when this second trimester energy is coming (maybe I used all of it moving furniture) and when eating is going to sound interesting again.
So on Monday morning I got a slight wind of energy and figured I should probably do something with it before it ran away. Jilli and I decided to work on building her big girl bed. Building stuff like this is not really a big deal to me, I use to build demos at the toy store all of the time. I have assembled my fair share of Melissa and Doug and KidKraft products. It is a little bit more interesting building with a 3 year old but she is a pretty good helper and rather interested. Only two mishapps where she opened the package of silicone beads all over the floor and scratched the bed with a wrench, but I think overall it went rather smoothly. We built the frame of the bed in the morning and then the headboard in the afternoon. She had PT so that was our break in the middle (it was one of those days though were actually getting out the door to therapy was interesting with a waterfall of formula coming off the couch, drenched clothing, nurse calling, van door not working and our street temporally closed, but we made it there)
Monday night we had Jaime, Jason and Emerson over for dinner and as they were getting ready to leave Jillian started climbing the stairs (without getting her med first) to go to her princess bed. Brent brought her up and she climbed right in. Lately she has been insisting on cuddling and watching Full House before bed but that night she was too excited for her big girl bed. She told us goodnight and cuddled up with her blanket. No tears, no trying to get out of bed. Ok, no tears from her, Brent and I were trying to keep ourselves together. She slept all night in her bed and in the morning just laid there until I came in the room and told her she could get up (we have been talking about what you do in a big girl bed for months now so she knew she had to have permission to get up)
Last night I was not home for bedtime (which is super rare but I was at a meeting for her therapy place) so Brent put her to bed and by the time I walked in she was already asleep. I woke up around 5:30 this morning to her calling out "daddy." At first I thought she was dreaming but then I looked over at her and realized she was sitting up (still in her bed). I went over and tried to tuck her back in but the tears started to flow that there were monsters in the room. We talked about how at the end of Monsters Inc the monsters are all funny and she started to laugh (last night she slept with her Boo doll from Monsters Inc and Roo from Winnie the Pooh). At this point though she was very awake. She has been rather whiny today and we decided to just have a pajama day. Somedays are just like that. Sadly I was slightly hopeful that waking up so early would mean a nap today but I am just not that lucky, this child rarely naps. She has laid on the couch a couple of times though.
We are still waiting to hear anything more from genetics. The meeting I was in last night, the other moms were talking about how you call someone regarding something medical for your child and them getting back to you "soon" ranges anywhere from the next day to a month later. My expectations have really had to shift about people calling me back over the past few years. Its not that it does not still drive me crazy, but I have had to learn to accept it. Calling and bugging them is just going to make them annoyed and not get you an answer any sooner so it is just best to wait it out and if the wait gets crazy long you call with a reminder, but timelines on things are very different when dealing with medical stuff. I am just hopeful they let me know soon when the appointment will be.
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