Sweet Dreams.... Hopefully

I don't know if I've mentioned it here, but Andy took the front off of Bridget's crib a couple of months ago for round two of trying to get her in a toddler bed.  Bedtime is a nightmare!  We have to either rock her or sit on the floor next to the crib until she falls asleep.

Audrey has been wanting to have sleepovers with Bridget a lot lately.  B has slept in Audrey's bed a couple of time but has fallen out of the bed both times, so now they sleep in Bridget's toddler bed with the guard rail.  Even with big sis in the room, Bridget won't stay in bed unless either Andy or I are in the room.

We want to try to break B of her crutch of having us in the room.  Last night, Audrey was in the toddler bed with her and she kept getting up and opening the door.  As soon as she would hear Andy walking down the hall, she would slam the door shut and run back to bed.  At one point, we heard her crying and then Audrey say "It's OK Bridget.  Do you want me to sit in the rocking chair with you?"  A couple minutes later, we heard Audrey singing lullabies to her trying to get her to quit crying and go to sleep.  She is so sweet!

After a while, even Audrey gave up and said that she wanted to go back to her own room and go to sleep (smart kid!).  Andy tried to put Bridget back to bed and finally said "Do you want me to leave your door open?"  She said yes, so he left the door open and she stayed in bed and went to sleep!

All of this time, we have been battling her to stay in her room and the poor thing just wanted her door open!  Tonight will be the real test to see if that helps or if it was just a fluke!

On Saturday, B wanted to come with me and Audrey to ballet class.  The teacher let her sit in the room until more kids showed up and Bridget tried to do the warm up stretches with Audrey and the other little girl.  She was pissed when I went to get her out of the room.

The other mom's thought she was so cute because she kept asking me to pick her up so she could look in the window of the door to the classroom. She had a baby doll with her and at one point, she said "Baby see Audrey dance." I picked her up and she held the baby doll up to the window to see big sis.  At one point, she tried to get in the door and when I told her "No," she lay on the floor and cried "Dance with Audrey!  Wahhh!"  I can't wait until she is old enough for dance class!