Moving - Hutchinson,KS

I have moved 7 times, 4 times with infants and toddlers, we are military.
Can someone watch her for the next two days? Or does she have a daycare?
Try to keep her schedule as normal as possible, giving her to Grandma helps here.
When you get everything into the new house unpack her bedroom after the kitchen and one bathroom.
It'll take about a month, if not less.
As long as the routine is the same and you and Daddy are there she will be fine.

She will do fine once you all get settled in. It might take a month or two of adjusting but she will be ok. Don't play it up to the hilt just let her know that her things will be there. Make sure her room is one of the first that you unpack and let her explore the rest of the house.

When I first moved my son he was about 3 and got a bit homesick but we moved from Tucson, AZ to Quebec, Canada. It took him about three months to realize that he was home. I pointed out that all of his toys were there in the room and that it was fine. We even called a former neighbor up and talked with him and his mom. After that he was okay. Kids bounce back from moves better than adults.

After that move we moved from Quebec, to Las Vegas, NV, to Germany and moved 3 times in Germany back to the states to New Mexico. The hardest move was the last. Our son had just graduated high school and daughter was in junior high. We all found our boundaries of the town in a short time.

You will all be fine. Just do things together so that she becomes familiar with the new house quickly.

The other S.

It was my experience...& I'm a great grandmother now...that if you talk to her with excitement that WE'RE GONNA GET A NEW HOUSE...YEAH!!! - she'll be excited about it, too. Don't go too overboard or she'll catch on that something's wrong with the move & you just don't want her to know. They are very smart & know when you're trying to pull the wool over their eyes so to speak. But if you gently lead her along that the new house is going to be so COOL, perhaps she'll accept it a little more readily. That's what I did with my children whether it was a new house or a new baby. Good luck!

We move a lot too. Our most recent move was when my daughter was 2.5yo and from one country to another. My suggestion is to unpack her stuff first. Set up her room, get out all her toys, anything that is hers to show it's all there and ready for her. And like Czechma said try to keep the same routine. My daughter tranistioned easily. I even moved her into a twin bed and out of her crib because I thought it was the best time to do so since I was pregnant and would need it in a few months. Even if she's with you during the move keep her involved and talk to her about what's going on. It will help her understand what's going on.

Try to keep much of your old furniture initially. She can 'smell' and see the familiarity.

I am sure she is picking up on your excitement and anxiety also. Remember that is also the age when you drop them off at Daycare or somewhere and they scream for you for five minutes then settle down to play blocks. It's very natural at any age to wonder about change, but I really don't remember anything about when I was 28 months old, so I am sure that it will be a brief adjustment. She might concurrently be growing into her own personality at the same time as this is happening, which could be a shy quiety girl or not. My oldest son turned into a quiet laid back guy and he was a motormouth when he was little.
Congratulations on your move!

Let her help you fix her room with 'her' things and tell her it's room but her new room. She'll be fine when you stop worrying about it as that let's her know it's not okay. It shouldn't take her long at all to be playing in 'her new room' with her toys and same schedule, etc. Kids adjust much more quickly than we do I think.