Growing Up is Hard for Mommy to Watch

There are several turning points in a young girl's life that must be noted with much fanfare. There's the first step, the first tooth, the first word...and the first night of sleep in her full size adult bed. She's too little to be sleeping in anything larger than a crib, in my opinion, but alas, we have converted her crib into it's final state. No more day bed. No more rails to make sure she doesn't roll the 6 inches out of her bed onto the floor. No more fighting with entirely too small crib mattress sheets.

Now we're in the realm of pillow top mattresses, 500 thread count sateen sheets, and way too many pillows. But she's in heaven and that makes me smile. Upon walking into her room, the smile grew from ear to ear. She immediately climbed up on her big girl bed and proceeded to make herself at home.

Gotta check out these awesome new sheets under this beautiful new quilt.

What? You mean you're so excited that you're ready to go to bed?
Good night my sweet and silly girl!
False alarm. She's so excited that she decided to give Ailey a big sisterly hug of excitement. Watch out Ashlyn, don't choke her!
Ashlyn was so excited about her new bed that night, that we were afraid she wouldn't sleep! Thankfully, we were wrong about that. She slept like an angel!

I'm just not sure about all this growing up that she's doing. What's next? Bras and boyfriends?! Oh my, I don't think my heart can take it.