Officially a "big Girl"...

Two weeks after potty training, Allie decided to start climbing out of her crib.  (Honestly, I was surprised it  took her so long!)  Jon was watching her one night and he heard noise from her room, then the door opening and from the top of the stairs "Daddy, I have to go potty!"  This same scenario happened two times that night.  So the next morning, Allie and I took the crib apart and made it into a toddler  bed.
(my camera was on manual focus- I didn't know it...)

She was SO excited that night...

Until about 30 minutes into bedtime and then she didn't want anything to do with her bed!  Instead she insisted upon sleeping on her huge frog!  I made a pallet on the floor and that is where she has remained for the last 2 weeks!  I am hoping in the next week to get her in her bed-we will see!

And then 5 days into the sleeping on the floor we decided that it was time for the binkie fairy to come!  She was having a hard time settling down and getting to sleep so I thought "why go through this again in a couple of months- let's just get it all over with at once!"  Oh my...  what was I thinking!??? (I think my friend Allison did it right by taking it away when her little girl turned one- they forget quicker!)

Jon was doing the MS150 and my friend Diana came over with her  little girl Noa and Allie kept talking about giving her binkie to Baby Charlotte (our friend's little baby girl).

 So why not??  That night we got an envelope and labeled it to"baby Charlotte" then we put it in the mail.  I told her the Binkie fairy would bring her a dollhouse in the morning.  Check out her expression!  She was not too sure about all of this!

 The note left by the Binkie Fairy

Allie's present for being a big girl!

It has been a rough couple of weeks, but I think she has finally"forgotten" about the binkie!  So within  a 3 week time period Allie stopped wearing diapers (except at nap and bedtime and has had only 1 accident), gave up her beloved binkie, and got out of her crib!  She is officially a Big Girl now!  It makes me sad to think all of her baby things are gone, but I am so happy to see how fun she is as she grows up!