Being at our wit's end, though, regarding Xavier's still lack of sleeping through the night, we decided to make the transition July 4th weekend. So that whole week, in preparation, I kept telling Lissie that cribs are for babies, and she was going to move to a big girl bed.
Well, it wasn't until we were about to start the tear-down, re-build, and convert process that we realized that umm, we sorta forgot a key component: the twin-sized mattress. And the one that we wanted wouldn't be available for another four days.
This normally wouldn't have been a problem.....except that Lissie had taken to heart what I said about cribs being for babies and refused to take naps and sleep in her crib.
Not wanting to wait any longer to deal with Lissie's crankiness from lack of sleep, I decided to do a little experiment: just let her sleep in the full-sized bed that was already in her room (since her room was originally our guest bedroom and we never wanted to get rid of that bed). It worked WONDERS. Best sleep she's had in ages. She loves going to her room and hopping in her ginormous bed and rolling around like a queen.
So, yeah, it wasn't quite the transition we had wanted. But at least she sleeps - sometimes sideways, sometimes upside down with her feet on the pillow, but at least it's sleep!
Now we'll see if moving Xavier to a full-sized crib will help him sleep, too. Fingers crossed!
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