Late again!

Okay, so in the last post we were preparing meals, moving Rachel to a new room, and getting ready for baby. Well, with 2 1/2 weeks to go (or so), Rachel has been sleeping in her new room every night for the past 2 weeks! We thought we would need a month to have her completely acclamated to the new room and to our surprise she asked to sleep in her big girl bed at night almost exactly a month before the baby was due. On the 3rd or 4th night we did find her like this when we checked on her before we went to bed.

Rachel is such a trooper! I am just hoping that she doesn't regress much when the baby gets here. She loves looking at new babies. We've had 3 friends give birth in the past couple months and she goes crazy when she sees their pictures on Facebook. She even screams with delight..."Ba-by." We are having so much fun with her.

I must digress back to how she slept in her bed at night for the first time. Jeff was at a soccer game and around 7:30, Rachel walks into the living room with her blanket and pillow from her twin bed like she's ready to go to sleep. Taking this as a good sign, I say okay and proceed to change her diaper, brush her teeth and put pajamas on her. She was apparantly tired, because she didn't want to do any of it. I laid her in bed and said good night. That was the end of it. She stayed in her bed all night as best we can tell. It was very helpful that the first night was on a weekend when Jeff would be home the next morning!! It was totally great and I was absolutely loving how great our child is!

Since she's in her new bed, we have converted the crib back to the "little baby" stage and put the bumper pads back on and everything. It looks kind of like this all over again! We are ready! It's only a matter of time now. If only I can manage to get all of my last minute visits with friends in before I have to figure out how to make those visits work with 2 kids we'll be doing great!