Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Lured from the tent

I previously reported how Reagan would only sleep in her princess castle tent she got for Christmas. I am happy to report that a solid month later, she has finally been lured from her tent into a real bed.

Prior to her taking up residence in her tent, she was sleeping in her little toddler bed. But she's always had a twin bed in her room that has gone unused. The twin bed is a canopy bed that looks like Cinderella's carriage. She's shown great interest in it over the years-- for climbing, for jumping, for doing dive rolls off of it. For sleeping-- no interest whatsoever.

But about a week ago, I put in the Cinderella movie for the first time. She watched it with great interest, becoming very upset with the ugly stepsisters destroyed Cinderella's dress for the ball. Then, when she saw Cinderella's carriage, she immediately identified it as looking like her bed.

When the movie ended she asked to watch it again. She's now watched it about a dozen times. And she now wants to be "Cinderella Princess." The bed that was only good for jumping from has now become her bed of choice for slumber, over her toddler bed, over her tent. She looks so adorable being so tiny and sleeping in such a big bed.

I wish I had thought of putting on that movie a long time ago.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my gosh! Zoey is going through this Cinderella phase right now! It's crazy. She's always been kind of a tomboy, but then she got the Cinderella movie for Christmas and now she has to watch it every day.

Zoey has been in her twin size bed since her second birthday. I love how small she looks in it because she looked like a giant in her toddler bed.

Oh, and I still think it's totally cute how she loves her tent so much! Zoey isn't interested in hers now so I think it will come down for a while.

Michelle said...

Awwww, how sweet! Gotta love how their minds work, don't you? Glad she's out of the tent though!

Mel said...

I agree that they look so cute in a big bed. Analese sleeps in a full.

Kelly Deneen Raymond said...

How cute!!! And what a fun bed! We need picturew now. You do know that, right? :)

Steph said...

So cute! Glad she finally likes her bed! I am making this stuff up as I go too...

Megan R. said...

Ok, I MUST see pictures of this bed, it sounds ADORABLE! Yay for a good night's sleep that was NOT on the floor!

Joanna said...

LOL. Doesn't it feel good when you finally outsmart your own child?