Big Girl Bed... or Not

Kyla has now been in her "Big Bed" for a few months. She loves having her own big girl bed. For Kyla's birthday we are going to transition her room and bring in a little larger bed for her to sleep in. Right now she is in her crib transitioned into a toddler bed. Up until a couple weeks ago, Kyla would stay in her bed and have no trouble falling asleep in her bed. She started getting up, so we went in to method one. This consisted of calmly putting Kyla back in her bed, saying good night...we stay in our bed now, and then leaving. We would do this until she didn't get out anymore. This became exhausting!! We went for 45 minutes one night. YIKES! We finally got enough courage to try method two. This isn't probably recommended by professionals, but it came up as an accident one night. Kyla going on 30 minutes one night so we decided just to let her be. Neither Jason or I had the patience to go in and put her back in bed. The patience was already out the window. We waited for about ten minutes then it was quiet. We waited to check to make sure she was asleep. We opened our door and there was little Kyla, curled up on her rocking chair with her monkey and book...SOUND ASLEEP! So, for the last couple weeks, we let Kyla go to sleep on her own. She doesn't play for very long, if at all, and is asleep within ten minutes (on most nights). We still have our long nights, but when we check on her before we head to bed, we find that many times we need to move her back to her big girl bed because somewhere in her room gave her comfort to fall asleep.