Growing Up

Because we moved Samantha has been sleeping in our room in her bassinet a little longer than I had originally planned. This past week, I finally got her room somewhat ready for her furniture. Then, daddy put her crib together, and we got in all nice and snuggly for her first night in it. I got out the baby monitors and placed one in her room and one in ours. When she fell asleep that night, I slowly crept into her bedroom and put her down in her crib. I watched for a couple minutes to make sure she didn't wake, then tip-toed out of there and shut the door behind me. A couple hours later that night when I got ready to go to bed, I walked into our bedroom and saw that empty bassinet...


I expected that she would've woken up at least once before I went to bed, so I made Ben go in her room...just to check on her and make sure the monitors worked. They did. So I layed down in bed and waited for the house to get quite and then waited for Samantha to wake up and cry so that I could go rescue her from the Big Bad Crib...wasn't she supposed to be upset that she was in that big room, all by herself?

She wasn't. I didn't hear a peep out of her or the monitor for a good 30 minutes. It was safe to go to sleep...I hoped. It was. At about 6:30am the next morning, I turned over in bed to look at her bassinet, of course it was empty. But I could hear her through the monitor. She wasn't crying, she was cooing...happily. I went into her room and there she was...







She is showing me day after day that she is getting bigger. She is such a healthy, active, happy, outgoing little wonder...And I was afraid to let her sleep in her own room! Someday I'll learn.