growing up.

sarah kate - you are sleeping in your big-girl bed for the very first time tonight! 3/18/2012

you are so so excited! some things you were very clear about:
you did NOT want to wear your sleep sack. we were shocked, but you made it very clear from the moment we showed you your new bed that you would like to sleep without it. guess you won't be going to college in a sleep sack.

also, tomorrow i will take the flat sheet off. you want to sleep on the fitted sheet with the quilt over you, but you do not want to sleep with the flat sheet on top of you so right now you are sleeping on top of it.

you did not want us to linger in your room! we took pics, i crawled in bed and read you the 3 books you wanted to read, we said our prayers and then you said, "can you get out of my big bed now please?" ha! so we left and you fell asleep very quickly! i can look at you through the video monitor and you never even moved much after we left the room.

i hope you sleep well the whole night! so far so good. we are so so proud of you, but i'm a little sad because you are SO not a baby anymore. guess it's a good thing that we have a baby on the way=)

we read a book that mrs. amy lent us about elmo moving from a crib to a big kid bed.

night night, bug bug!

there are a few other ways that you are growing up so fast!

you are doing an excellent job keeping your big girl undies dry! you only had 1 accident at home last week and you had one accident this weekend down at mimi's house, but other than that you did really well. today on our way back to charleston you had me pull over right there on 17 so you could crawl in the back and go #2 in your froggy potty! that road is just so bare and so i'm glad i keep a frog potty back there for you. so anyway, you are out of diapers except for when you sleep. and i still put a pull-up on you when we are going to be out of the house for a long time (& when we're traveling) but you usually keep them dry. such a big girl!

also, you can identify all your letters. you know most of their sounds as well. i know you can't identify all the lower case letters but you definitely know all the capital letters.

you were not scared of the easter bunny this year=) you sat with him for a second last year, but you didn't want to. this year you thought he was cute, furry and nice. we met ava and bryce at the avenues friday for a disney store visit and a train ride so y'all got your picture made with the big bunny while there.

and some other pics of our big girl:

dressing herself....

bedtime stories with her papa bear...

reading with ava...


yogurt with papa (before i had to yank her out of there for being ugly to her mommy! getting big also means testing your limits a bit.) ;)

the best friend's club goes on a train ride...

putting miles and miles on mimi's trike.....

love our big girl! i wonder what sort of "regression" we'll have when hayes arrives. i hear that this is common. maybe she'll have some accidents or maybe she'll have trouble sleeping through the night? i'm hoping that we're doing those 2 things (potty training and bed transitioning) soon enough to where she'll be used to them both by the time the baby comes and maybe will not regress too much. that's our hope! no doubt there will be jealousy! mimi was holding our sweet 12 week old cousin, lilly rose, yesterday and sk ran up and asked mimi to hold her instead. so lilly rose was handed off to me and mimi held sk who laughed and made baby noises. hmmmm........