the bed has arrived

UPS descended upon our house on Thursday, delivering the bed guardrails, the bedding, and the bed! Britton was very excited about the bedding, and insisted on opening the packages so she could spread it all out. I even kept the labels from the bedding to put in her memory book. Here she is showing it all of to Sadie...

And then Saturday morning the hub and I took Britton to the mattress store to get a mattress. We laid on three different mattresses, comparing support and cushiness and durability. None of which you can really be sure of after only five minutes of laying on a mattress! The salesman, Mr. I Know Everything About Everything, suggested the pillow top and we had already been leaning that way. But I worried that the pillow top would make the mattress so tall that the guardrails wouldn't keep Britton in the bed!

We decided to just put in the mattress and box spring, and hold off on the bed until she gets used to the whole thing. Luckily we had time for her to try it out during nap (when she spent thirty minutes on and off and on and off and on and off the bed) and she never slept. But come bedtime that night, she snuggled in ready for her new bed. She did ask me what happened to her old bed, and I told her we still had it, but we were trying out the new bed for at least one night. I wanted to give her an "out" if she wasn't ready. And we only referred to the bed as her "new bed," not "big girl bed" so if she didn't want it anymore she wouldn't feel badly about it. A few extra hugs, an extra book, a turned-down request for me to sleep with her (not going down that road!) and she was asleep.

And she never got up until Sunday morning, perched at the end of our bed!