Toddler Bed, Cancelled

We have been fighting Addison for two weeks at bed time. She hasn't been going to sleep alone and she hasn't been staying asleep for more than 3 hours at most. And really, she hasn't even been sleeping in the toddler bed. She has been sleeping on either a twin air mattress OR with us in our bed. Last night in a fit of PURE EXHAUSTION, we decided we had had enough! A friend recommended we take out the platform the mattress sits on in the toddler bed, drop the mattess to the floor, and put the crib rail back on. (Addie's crib is a "lifetime" bed - goes from a crib, to a toddler bed, to a double bed.) So we did this tonight before we put her down. She went to sleep without us being in the room with her and it only took her a few minutes. Now, let's just hope she stays asleep for the remainder of the night. She had been doing so well at night - sleeping all the way through until we tried to put her in the toddler bed. Now that the mattress is all the way to the ground, the top of the rail is now at eye level for her, so it will - hopefully - be a while before she can climb out of the crib. Because as we have learned over the past few weeks, she is clearly not ready to be in a big girl bed!