Montes Familia Established June 9, 2007: Elaina's New Princess Big Girl Bed!

Elaina has needed to upgrade to a big girl bed for awhile but we had been able to find one we liked well enough to buy for her. We looked and looked and still had been unable to find what we wanted. With William's expected arrival date around the first part of May we wanted to get her in her new bed no later than January so she wouldn't feel like she got booted out of her bed [which was the crib turned into a toddler bed] for the baby. Crazy enough, Manny stopped in a furniture store not 4 minutes away from our house and found what we wanted! After he showed me, I told him it looked really nice and exactly what I had in mind for her. He went back the next day and bought it, it should arrive in a week. About 30 minutes after he got home we got a call saying we probably wouldn't get the bed until January 10th since the bed may not be ready to go out in last shipment before the holidays and because the drivers take a week off the week of Christmas and New Years the didn't anticipate it coming in until January. They said, we had a 3% chance of it coming the 23rd of December but she didn't want us to get our hopes up and told us it'd be more of a surprise than something to expect to happen. We hoped for our own little "Christmas Miracle." Elaina's Christmas gifts from Mommy and Daddy was the bedding and such to go with her new bed so we wanted her to be able to have it by Christmas so we could put it together. We decided we'd go ahead and keep what we ordered because it was exactly what we wanted and if it got here early, GREAT, if not...sometimes waiting for exactly what you want is so worth it so either way it'd be fine just so long as it was here by January!

On Manny's birthday he was driving home from running a few errands and happened to see the delivery truck at the store and stopped in to see if her bed happened to be in the delivery. The lady who had helped him asked if he got the message and he said no, she asked why he was there and he said, "I was driving by and saw the delivery truck so I stopped in to see if it made it here." Much to our amazement it HAD come in and it was our "Christmas Miracle" LOL We were so excited it made it in time for Christmas for Elaina, only problem we had now was we had to go find mattresses since we were waiting to see if it came or not. Next day Manny and Uncle Dave went and picked it up. The 23rd happened to be the day of floods and Manny worked until way late helping out family so Dave took me with his truck to go ahead and get the mattresses. Uncle Jason was kind enough to take down her other bed so I could clean the room and get it ready so Manny could put it together when he got home. After a long day, I wasn't sure if he'd be up to it but he got home just before 11:00, ate a quick bite and got to work putting her bed together.

We let the kids open one gift on Christmas Eve but this year Elaina got to open one on Maca's birthday too [the 23rd]. I let her open her new sheets so I could wash them and have them ready to put on her bed that night so she could sleep in her new bed...the rest of the bedding and decor would have to wait until Christmas Day but with the sheets and her princess blanket she would be plenty warm for one night.

So excited for her sheets and new bed!

She hung out with Grandma and Papa while we got her room together and had fallen right to sleep. I went and got her and brought her in and she snuggled in to her bed and was out for the count! First night in a few weeks she slept all night without waking up [so did Mom and Dad!]

I love my little sleeping angel...love the little hands under her cheek.

Christmas morning I set her bed up and everything for her but didn't make time to take her picture until the Monday night after Christmas. She's wearing her new Christmas jammie's and in her new bed! SHE LOVES IT!!! I've told everyone it's worth it's weight in gold because she sleeps SO good now that she has room to move around [since she's a wild woman in her sleep]. It's nice to have her comfortable in her own bed again and resting well!