Big girl bed

Sheinah decided that she did not want to sleep in her pack-n-play throughout the entire two weeks of our Christmas travels. Instead, she slept in a big bed (surrounded by pillows of course). Each morning, she would wake up around 5am and one of us (read that as Travis) would lie down with her to get her to go back to sleep for a little while longer. Thus, when we returned home we faced two problems (1) Sheinah was no longer fond of her crib (2) she wanted to sleep with Mommy and Daddy. We decided we could solve the first problem by simply buying her a "big girl" bed. Four stores and two hours later we found one at Wal-Mart. However, we should have realized that it would be best to first convince her to sleep in her own room BEFORE we tried to switch her to a "big girl" bed last night. We ended up putting the pack-n-play back in her room (because it would take forever to put the crib back together). After waking up three times and crying for too long to remember, Sheinah figured out how to get out of the pack-n-play. Yes, she somehow climbed out, opened her bedroom door, ran down the hall, and burst into our room...crying at the top of her lungs the whole time. That's a wonderful way to wake up (in case you've never had the pleasure of such an experience). We were at a loss since we didn't want to put her in a crib as we were worried about the large fall she would experience if she climbed out of her real crib. Travis finally came up with the idea of letting the puppy sleep in her room and it seems to have worked...Samson is snug in his crate next to her "big girl" bed and she's been asleep for three hours. Check out the video of her when she actually liked her bed (before she figured out that we were going to make her sleep in it).