Never say Never

Before I was a parent I think I had said "Oh I will never do that!" quite a few times and now it's coming back to bite me in the butt. Even when Ella was a baby I always said "I will never buy her character clothing." Yeah, well Ella owns Elmo pjs, a Ni Hao Kai Lan shirt, Dora pjs, ect. I also said "I will never buy her character bedding." The pictures below show I lied. When Ella refused to sleep in her crib after our trip to South Korea, I allowed her in my bed for a few months. (Oh another thing I said I would never do!) Truth be told, I didn't mind her in there. She was my little cuddle bug! But I knew Tom would be home in April and I needed to get her out of our bed. We have a four bedroom home, but I knew I wanted to keep the nursery for the next baby and Ella hates that room now. I wanted to keep the guest room because frankly I can't just move a queen sized sleigh bed and where the heck do I store that? Besides my mama is coming to visit for a month when this baby is born and I want her to be comfy with her own room. Our only other choice was the playroom for Ella's new bed. There is already enough in that room so Tom suggested a toddler bed...and to make it as girly as possible. So we did just that. Everything I ever said I would never ever do, I did. I never wanted a toddler bed. I especially never wanted a PINK FRILLY CANOPY toddler bed adorned with princess bedding. But you know what? It works. And Ella falls asleep peacefully every night in it. Now if only she would stop waking once...twice...sometimes three times a night, I would be sleeping peacefully as well. But hey, you can't win them all, right?

Here it is...in all it's glory... right after I set it up last month. She was so excited and kept saying "It's my princess bed! It's my princess bed!"

Here is how her playroom looks with it. I thought it would take up much more room, but there is still room to move and play!

And here she is sleeping quite comfortably if I do say so myself! (with her Dora pjs on, covered in her Princess bedding. Ohhh Lordy.)