beginnings~endings

This is Larra's last night in her crib. I find myself both simultaneously excited and sad by this new venture. From her fragile entry into this world at only two pounds six ounces to the time we brought her home at four pounds five ounces to now at twenty-six pounds. The first night we got her home, Loren and I looked at her all bundled up in her crib and thought we should place her bathtub inside of her crib and she inside the bathtub. The crib was twenty times bigger than she was. She still has not made one attempt to climb out of the crib, only into it but we know that day will come and rather than tempt fate and find her splattered on the floor we have decided to go to a "big girl bed". Okay, that isn't the real reason. The real reason is that she has not been resting soundly and we made a promise to one another that we would not let little girlfriend sleep in our bed. I said to Loren the other day, "If Larra had her own bed and wasn't sleeping well, one of us could just climb into her bed. Wouldn't that be great?" Nice but again not the real, real reason. The truth...the honest truth....we hope that one of the dogs will decide that there is so much more room on Larra's bed, which will now be twenty times too big again, and will make that their preferred sleeping place of choice. Ahhh parenthood.

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