Waking up at night

We moved to a new house a couple months ago which threw my 2.5 year olds sleep pattern way off. We were getting into a new pattern but she’s been waking up fairly regular at 2:30 am/3 am wide awake not crying just talking or laughing and standing up (she’s still in a crib). I go in cause she doesn’t go back to sleep like she sometimes does and she’s asking me to get out. I tell her it’s night time or middle of the night. Mommy and daddy are sleeping. I give her two options she can rock with me or lay back down. She just wants to go downstairs. She ends up being up for a couple hours then falls asleep. I just don’t understand why she’s doing this and is super awake. It’s ruining all of our sleep and we’re super tired the next day for work. I think it’s just going to come down to me forcing her to stay in her crib and making her cry until she’s sleepy. Anyone else with similar experience? I just feel like there should be a better way.