We're in the middle of a battle. One that I'm not sure will ever get a white flag. We had to transition to Rowyn to a "big girl bed" last week after she spent a VERY eventful night JUMPING out of her crib. I can't say I'm all that surprised but there was just no warning. I put Rowyn down for the night and she wasn't happy about it. I was just about to open her door to tell her "night night" again and I hear a loud THUMP. I swing open the door and there are two little eyes staring back up at me from the floor. I'm absolutely speachless.... and so is she. All I could get out of my mouth was "Did you.... Oh my..... You.....". Know what she said to me? "Hi Mama". We spent the rest of the night with late night visits. At one point I woke up to heavy breathing in my ear and it was Rowyn standing beside the bed. That pretty much sealed the deal for us to get the bed out and ready the next night.
I went out and bought Princess sheets, an Elmo book that talks about moving to a big bed (Rowyn is in absolute LOVE over Elmo) and a small stuffed Elmo doll thinking I would make things a little exciting and special. Well, I should have just saved my moola. We're in the middle of the battle of the wills. Rowyn is giving a supreme effort to make sure that she tells us she's going to get out of bed whenever she wants. Like a million times a night. We're all feeling a little stressed and anxious of this. Now I'm in Austin for the week and Daddy's on duty. Poor Brad. At least Rowyn reacts better to Brad than me. Nap time took 15 minutes and she was down for 2 hours today. We havne't seen that in 10 days to be exact. I'm crossing my fingers and toes that Brad wins the big girl bed battle this week. She loves her bed and talks about it all the time. We just have to figure out how to entice her to STAY IN BED!
On a more fun note, we had Halloween this year. Rowyn dressed up as a horse - aka Unicorn. Rowyn loves horses so rather than tell a squirming 2 year old that the costume that Mummy wants her to climb into is a weird thing called a Unicorn, I kind of bribed her and said it was a horse and I was going to put some special makeup on her face. Did I mention that Rowyn is a total girl? Necklaces, makeup, hair elastics, belts, purses, you name it. The kid loves it. We had a grand time parading her to houses in our subdivision. She even got the hang of saying "trick or treat" and holding out her bag. We gave her a few treats that night and hid the rest. No need to add to the jumping bean effect of being a 2 year old.
We also visited the apple orchard this fall where Rowyn got to see some miniature horses and pick apples.
We went to a pumpkin patch as well and saw lots of other farm animals.
Our adventures have been getting bigger and bigger and we're loving every minute of it. Rowyn's understanding, remembering, and enjoying everything. I think Brad and I are just as excited as Rowyn to do everything all over again with her.
I don't have many pics with me on my notebook but here's what I have.
More updates more frequently, I promise.
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