Big Girl Bed - The Shorter Version

Another milestone has been reached.  As of tonight, we have officially retired the crib.  After 4 years and 2 months, Jocelyn has outgrown and over crowded the crib space so much that we have finally moved on.

I love IKEA!  They have such creative stuff.  Jocelyn's new Big Girl Bed is a perfect example.  Her bedroom is not very big, so even though her crib will one day be turned into a full size bed, for now she has the EXPANDING TWIN!  It starts out as a twin sized bed with the bottom cut off and as she grows, it will expand twice until it's the full length of a twin.  (I hope by then one of her sisters will be off to college so she can have one of the bigger bedrooms!)

So 3 1/2 years ago, this is where we were.

Then 6 months ago, we finally moved on to this.  See related blog here.

And today, after a little construction...

And rearranging...

We now have this...

And Jocelyn seems pretty happy about it!!  Now if we could only get her settled down to go to sleep!