Ready for baby?

In anticipation of getting pregnant, and having a baby in March we decided to rid all "baby" things in Ryleigh's life and replace them with "big girl" things.

The transition from a crib to a big girl bed went better than I expected. After only a couple of nights of Ry getting up, and us resetting her in her bed she now has no problem falling asleep.

We have all the stuff like the baby swing, bouncy seat, and boppy in her closet, so she does see them often, but anytime she sees them we just say, "those are for babies, you are a big girl".

I think the biggest hurdle so far has been getting rid of her binky. But, I am proud to report that she has been binky free for a week now! Yay!

The next step is potty training. She will go on the potty whenever I stick her on it, we just have to get to the point where she tells me she has to go. I am not absolutely adamant that she be potty trained by March, but I figure if she doesn't learn to go on the potty she'll just have to learn how to change her own diapers. haha. JK!

Our intentions are to have all the baby stuff behind her in order to ward off jealousy. We don't want her getting mad at the new baby for sleeping in "her" crib, or for sucking on "her" binky. Hopefully by the next 7 and a 1/2 months she'll forget that she ever used those things. That's a big hopefully, and I know that we have a lot to learn about sibling interactions, but it feels good to at least try some preventative measures!

It's kinda sad that my little girl is growing up, but it's also exciting to see her learning new things and entering new phases in her life (except that the next phase will probably be the terrible twos. grr).