All grown up

This is a bragging post about my daughter.  Okay, maybe not bragging, but I was so darn proud of her last weekend and I wanted to share.  Last weekend my husband we decided to go to San Antonio for two days.  We wanted to take Hannah to the zoo since hasn't been to a real zoo since she was 11 months old.  She loves the aquarium in Corpus Christi so we thought she would love the zoo.  We left early Saturday morning, but after all the stops it was after 12 before we made it to the zoo. Hannah was tired,  but she was excited so she was doing okay.  I missed most of the zoo because by the time we found a parking spot, walked to the zoo, and then made it in it was time for me to pump.  That meant I had to hike it back to the car, pump, and then walk back.  By the time all that took place, Hannah was ready to melt down out of exhaustion and hunger (she didn't eat her lunch.)  We decided to leave shortly after that, she took a nap in the car, and then even took one once we made it to the hotel.  She never voluntarily goes back to sleep once you wake her up.  I was very shocked.  We ended up switching from our hotel room to a 3 bedroom duplex.  We stayed at Randolph Air Force Base, and they called to say they had one available if we wanted it.  We took it!  It was very nice to have the room to spread out.  Now, this is why I am proud of her.  My little girl, who we have had so many sleep problems with during nap time and bed time, had absolutely no problem sleeping in an unfamiliar room all by herself.  I thought for sure she would freak out at bed time and cry for one of us to sleep in the room with her.  She does that here at home in her own room if she hears a train whistle.  She chose the room she wanted to sleep in, she climbed right into the bed, and told us good night.  I think it helped that the room had a tv with a dvd player and we let her play a movie.  We don't let her watch tv if it is time to sleep, but we were hoping it would help her feel comfortable in the room.  Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't.  Either way, she slept in that room all night without an issue.  I was so dang proud of her I almost cried.  She is growing up!  I know it doesn't seem like much, but it was a huge deal to me.  Every day it seems like she is moving more toward being a kid instead of a toddler.  Now if I could just get the tantrums to stop...

(If you read this rambling mess, you deserve a cookie. :)  This is what happens when I write a post during my  4am pumping session.)