ahhhhh...sleep.

as you all know, leia is in a bed now & we had no idea how this was gonna be, but i am proud to say that derek and i have gotten the best sleep this week than we have in the last 2 years! the 1st night in her new bed, derek laid with her 'till she fell asleep and she was out for the entire night (we said that we weren't gonna make a habit of doing that because we remembered that we did that with kaia when she was first in a big girl bed & eventually she wouldn't go to sleep unless we laid with her)...anyways, the 2nd night, the second we were done tucking them in & left the room she started crying so we thought, "if she thinks we're alseep she'll stop crying and get back in bed". so, we turned off all the lights (it sounds mean but she is in the room with kaia & they do have a night light) and ran into our room so she would think we were asleep. it worked, after about 10 minutes of crying...she stopped. we waited a minute and then went out to see where she was. she had crawled back into her bed and curled up in a ball and was hugging 2 of her stuffed animal dogs (one in each arm) ASLEEP! it was so cute (see 1st pic). anyways, except for that 1 night of a little crying, she's been going right to sleep and sleeping until like 8:00 or 8:30 every day. i never thought the day would return where we would wake up on our own because the sun had risen and the room was actually light when our eyes opened!

NIGHT 2...
AND, NOW...
we have to give a lot of the credit to kaia...i'm sure leia wouldn't be so receptive if she was in the room by herself. thank you baby kaia.

and, we actually said "bye-bye" to the crib...it was on craigslist friday night and sold by saturday!

it was kinda sad not seeing the crib in it's old spot...but i'm just so thankful that both of the girls like their new sleeping arrangements better, and so do we! :)