The McDougal Family

On March 27th, Tanner decided that she no longer wanted to be confined to her crib at night! That's right, she crawled out. We were sooo not ready for this to happen yet. I thought we would start to transition her to a "big girl bed" sometime after she turned two, but I guess she had other plans. We took the front off of her crib and turned it into a toddler bed. This worked out fine for awhile. We were actually surprised at how easy she made the transition. Then, two weeks later, she learned how to open doors! Our nights of sleeping were gone at that point. For the last week and a half, we have been up with her 3-5 times each night to put her back in her bed. She gets up and walks all the way to our room, opens our door, and says, "Momma, Daey!" We get up and carry her back to her bed, kiss her goodnight, and go back to sleep wondering when we will have to get up again. In addition, she decided that 6am was now a good time to get up for the day. Needless to say, the last week and a half has been a little tiring. I do have good news to report, however. Last night she put up a fight going to bed, like always, but she slept from 8:30pm to 7:30am without getting out of her bed. Yay!! I hope it continues, so wish us luck for tonight! She was really funny the night that she discovered that she could open doors. At first, she would come into the living room and we would take her back to her bed over and over again. Finally, she got a spanking for getting up again. After that, she would just stand at her door and open and close it saying "Momma, Daey!". We started standing in the hallway at this point, and Clinton got down on her level so she would look him in the eye when she opened the door. She did, and the second that she saw him she slammed it in his face!! She kept opening it to see if we were there and she would slam it again if she saw us. It was really funny! After a few times of seeing his face when she opened the door, she started knocking on the door from her side saying "Momma!!" as if I would come and save her from Daddy. It was really really funny! After that didn't work, she tried some manipulation tactics. She started saying "poopoo" to get us to come and check her diaper. We did once and, sure enough, no poopoo. It was a trick! She is such a little smarty pants! In case you are wondering, it took us 3 hours to get her to sleep that night! It has been better since then, and it now takes us about 15 minutes to get her to give up and go to sleep. I forgot to mention that we moved her to her "big girl room" which used to be the guest room. I haven't decorated it yet, but I will post pictures when I do. It is going to be decorated in a garden theme. Here is a picture of her going to bed in her big girl room for the first time. Please excuse the mismatched pajamas (her daddy got her dressed that night).
I never posted pictures of her old room, so here they are: