Big Changes

A lot of new things have been happening around the Michael house this past week. We thought that with the new baby coming in five weeks (ekk!) that we better move Addison out of the crib. Little did we know that it would also mean the end of our sweet 2 year olds personality! We spent all day Monday (mostly with me directing Dave where to move things) cleaning out and moving things to the basement. Who knew we had so much stuff crammed into the smallest room in our house. Our home teacher was nice enough to help Dave with the heavy things and all of Dave's text books. We got the bed set up and sheets put on just in time to tell Addison goodnight. I want to look back and read this post someday and laugh thinking, " I can't believe she went through that phase!" It took almost 3 hours to get her down. It was a lot of tears, shouting and her slamming the door in our faces. Dave and I ended up taking turns laying down by her until she finally fell asleep. My entire body was numb by the time I got out of her room from laying so weird on it. The next day for nap time it took almost as long and she ended up finally giving in and then sleeping way to late! My perfect child has never been a consistent early riser. She inherited that awesome gene from me! This entire summer she has been getting up around 8:30 or 9:00 and it has been amazing for my pregnant body. Now she has been getting up around 6am!!!!!! AHHHH. I am so grateful that we waited to do this change when Dave had time off in between semesters or I would have given up and put her right back in her crib. Dave fixed the door handle to her room and now it latches. I am embarrassed to say that we put a child lock on the inside of her door. I feel really guilty about it since I used to say that I would NEVER do that to my child:) We are in survival mode around here! This morning Addison still got up early, but at least I slept better knowing that she would just call our names instead of sneaking down stairs and getting out every.single.toy! She has fallen asleep in the car on our way back from the playground the past couple of days so nap time has actually happened. She isn't napping her usual 3 glorious hours, but I knew that wouldn't last forever. Dave and I have become the parents that pass out at 10pm who whisper and tip toe as to not wake our big girl toddler. I was just telling Dave last weekend how Addison has become my little buddy and things are just so easy with her right now. She tags along on all my errands and will lay down for a nap without a fuss whenever we get back. I am laughing right now as I am typing this just thinking of how we brought all this change upon ourselves. It needed to happen, but I can't help but wonder if we are doing the right thing. I got out all the baby clothes and changed the bedding in the crib. Addison calls it "Avery's Room" now and it breaks my heart a little bit. I cried the other night laying by her looking at her trying to fall asleep. Big changes are going on around here and everyone's expectations have had to shift a little lower. I don't think that we'll be doing as much running around or "doing". I need to be okay with that and learn to enjoy these last few weeks that I have with just Addison as my buddy:) Oh and heaven help me this weekend while Dave is gone to Utah! I am hoping Addison is over the initial shock of moving rooms and will maybe only take an hour to lay down!?!? I love Addison and I am grateful to preserve this memory of our little family trying to figure out what the heck we are doing as first time parents!!