"I can't do this!"

Madeleine just finished screaming/crying/yelling this while tucked under her covers in her bed. Yes, bed, as in not-her-crib. Although she's been able to climb out of her crib for almost 4 months, we hadn't transitioned her to a "big girl bed" because she was content and cooperative still using her crib. Well, we head to PA in a few weekends for JoAnn's wedding and they only have one crib...the perfect excuse we need to finally transition Maddie to a bed. So she's toughing it out and expressing her anger and frustration at not wanting to grow up. And as compared to other attempts we've made to let her ease into sleeping in a bed, we actually put her old crib in Parker's room because his crib would squeak every time he moved, sometimes waking him up. So there's no turning back tonight. Fortunately she didn't take a nap today so we have exhaustion working to our advantage. She's a fighter so she'll do her best to make her point but come morning, I think we'll be able to say yes Madeleine, you can and you did do it!