The energy is intense!

We got little miss a new bed that arrived earlier this week.  There were two main reasons - she is growing! A lot!  About 20cm taller than she was 7 months ago.  Her feet were right at the end of the single bed she had, and had no up and down wriggle room.  She has also been complaining of a sore back for about three weeks now - every morning.

The bed she had was a handed down...and probably handed down before that.  As a back sleeper, I found it pretty comfortable.  But from my own experience in that bed - get on your front and you'd may as well be a banana.

I looked on line at second hand beds... Granted there were a lot of hardly used ones out there - but the problem with second hand is you can't lie on them for awhile and see how they feel.

So we bought her a new bed.  A king single...so there is plenty of wriggle room - both up and down and left to right.  There is a trundler bed underneath for when her little sister or a friend comes to stay - that folds out in to a proper king single too - A real innersprung full sized mattress!  And when she is older the two go side by side nicely and make a king bed.

We were going to wait until we got guardianship and were sure she wouldn't be whipped off somewhere else.  But as things are looking pretty stable at the moment, and her back was playing up we went with it.  This kid deserved a good night sleep.

And clearly - a good night sleep she has been getting.  The energy is incontainable!  I swear - bouncing, literally. And her mouth...woah! Who knew there was this energy being prevented by a good nights sleep!  Hopefully it will settle down a little once she is used to the good nights sleep!  Last night I actually had to say "please, stop just for five minutes"  she did...well, for four and a half minutes anyway.

She has finally chosen a school.  My preferred school for her.  It took a long time for her to come to that decision...but didn't want to push her - she had to feel as though she had made a decision in her life.  Thankfully, she chose the best school in the area, within walking distance from home.  We have an enrolment interview in a week - which should be fine - we are zoned for the school so can't anticipate any problems.