A.K.A – Bye Bye Nursery

Today we moved Alethea from the nursery to her big girl bedroom.  We started in the morning moving her bookcase, lamp, toys, etc into the big girl room.  (At some point soon we will be getting a different bookcase and lamp to match her room, but for the time being, she’s going to use the ones from the nursery.)

Alethea took it all in stride.  I’d say she seemed… interested.

Me?  I was doing pretty well until I decided it would be best to clear out the nursery as much as possible.  I took everything off the walls… and then I cried.  Silly, I know.  I’m going to be such a basket case when she goes off to college!

Fast forward to the afternoon… we took the mattress off her bed and moved it into the new room as well.  She had a blast yelling ‘three’ (she hasn’t mastered counting up to three yet, so when she does tricks she just says ‘three’) and then taking a running step off the mattress onto the floor.  She also enjoyed arranging pillows, blankets and stuffed animals on her ‘bed’.  She was having so much fun, she declined any interest in an afternoon snack.

I thought, “Wow, she’s taking this really well.”

Then Peter came home and began disassembling the crib (it’s too big to fit through our doorways assembled).  She had fun helping Daddy and was ready at any minute to hand him his hex key:

The crib parts got moved into the big girl room and Peter began the reassembly process.  And that is the precise moment when she lost it.  She cried and screamed and couldn’t be consoled.  She pushed me out of the room and back into the nursery.  Then she cried some more.  She most definitely did not think her crib belonged in the big girl room.

After she had dinner, she did mostly calm down, so perhaps part of it was hunger.

Fast forward again to the present… We just finished our bedtime routine and so far all I’ve heard is talking (no crying!) from the room.  She’s not asleep yet though.  It will be interesting to see how the rest of the night goes.