We've had some big changes happening around here when it comes to sleep. Two weeks ago we moved Kate to a bed. No more cribs in our house!!! We rearranged her nursery: took the crib apart and stored it in the basement, and put up a queen size bed to serve as a guest room (we had the bed in storage at my parent's house since we moved). Kate did so well with the transition. She got out of the bed twice, once on the first night within the first 5 minutes of bedtime, and once on the second night. But after receiving very firm correction about it, she hasn't tried to get out since. In fact, almost every time I go to get her up in the morning or after nap, she says, "I no get out of bed, Mommy." She's proud of herself :)
Vivian has done well with it, too. She likes having a room partner, I think. She takes her naps in the new guest room bed. The first week we had some issues with them staying up too late talking and playing, but it has settled down considerably since then. The other problem the first week was that Kate was waking up too early in the morning and with her new environment, she wasn't going back to sleep and waking Vivian up. Hopefully she will start to sleep a little later so that her sister can sleep in a little.
The other big change was something that I dreaded for a loonnngg time but Aaron made me go through with it finally: taking Vivian's pacifier away. We warned her weeks in advance that once she turned 3, she had to give it up. I thought for sure we would have weeks of sleepless nights, with her waking up not being able to find it and crying, etc. But no! She didn't give us a hard time at all! It has been so much easier than I thought, that in fact I am considering doing the same thing for Kate. What a pleasant surprise. I can tell she definitely has a harder time falling asleep for naptime (and she wasn't napping a lot before anyway), but other than that it hasn't been a struggle. 
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