Bizzy B's: Little Big Girl

FIRST THINGS FIRST, HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY DAD (his bday was yesterday, Jan. 22nd)! thank you for being my Daddy and for loving me unconditionally!! Shelby is lucky to have such a great Gramps like you!
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Image from Ucreate

First off, I MUST SAY....I LOVE LOVE LOVE OWLS...and I get it honestly b/c my mom loves owls and used to collect them....however lately i've found that owls are the cutest thing and all the options of them and their sizes are just too adorable!! Ucreate did this post the other day and linked to this ADORABLE little guy pictured above! I WILL BE MAKING ONE OF THESE FOR SOMETHING for Shelby's new room decor!
On that note, today was very traumatic for me and for Shelby...
we disassembled her crib and put her new big girl bed up. We ordered this GORGEOUS twin trundle bed and MONTHS AGO I ordered her bedding/room decor and well we put it all together this weekend. Yes, I cried, A LOT...She's getting too big and I'M NOT FORCING IT OR EVEN TRYING TO MAKE HER grow up. She's learning to potty train on her own (she's peed in the potty twice and poopied once!! today, she went and sat on her potty but I couldn't get there in time to pull her diaper off so she peed in her diaper so TECHNICALLY she did pee "on the potty"). She pulls her pants down herself and everything!!!!!!! She's a HOOT, which fits considering the room decor she has now! LOL...

She is pointing to the pee pee and saying "Shuuwee" as she holds her nose

"Shuuuwee"

Here's where the tears began to flow... this was the last time EVER Shelby's room would look like this (not the mess but the decor...the BABY bed)...

the last time I'd stand right here and see this and see her sweet little body in that adorable crib w/ the bedding I swooned over for months and cried when it came in and was clean and put in that bed....

the last time "Daa Daa" would take her night night bed partners out of her bed to move them so we can change the sheets out (in this case to take the sheets and bedding off permanently)...

the last time I'd hear the creaky, squeaky, clangy railing I lifted up and cursed at tryin to get down each morning and night...the last time diapers would be changed in there since she's too long for her changing nook...

But w/ all these "last's" come "first's!"...

first time Shelby helps Pappy and Daa Daa put something of hers together (as she tries to help which is actually stripping the screw holes...lol)

first "father/daughter" project...

first time REALLY using her hammer (it's fake) Pappy got her for Christmas from her tool box...

first time sitting on her big girl trundle bed...(before the mattress of course)...

first time we could get her still enough and to stop bouncing off the wall w/ glee over her new bed to take her picture...

and the first time her new bedding and room decor is all in place in her bed she'll sleep in from now till she moves out...

first time we tried out the new railing before we realized the mattress that was Josh's was too tall and so we switched the trundle mattress (thinner) and it's half the size of the mattress pictured (the trundle pulls are the top drawer pulls and the bottom three are actual drawers for storage!! :) HUGE PLUS w/ a girl who has a momma who has a shopping problem)...

first time the bedding is JUST THE WAY i wanted it placed...which didn't last long when Daa Daa & Shelby decided to try out the bed....

first time "Banana the bear" has buddies that don't play music, smell like a baby and aren't smaller than she is...

first time Shelby tried out the railing (that btw, is VERY STURDY AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! $34 at Walmart; more than I hoped to pay but has a wedge that is connected so there is NO WAY she can get an arm or anything else caught or slide down between the railing and the mattress!)...

first time outside as a "Big Girl" who has a "Big Girl Room" now...yes, she put on her Daa Daa's hat as he told her and turned it backwards when he said to as well!! She's talkin to the neighbor two doors down, dog that I call Polar Bear (he's a big fluffy Chow-mix dog lol...)....