The New Train Room

We finally got the boys transitioned over to their new room. This was a critical step in baby prep since we will take over the nursery. We sat down to look at the calendar and realized that we really should get them in before our Branson trip the second half of August so we'd have time to get her room done. Pressure! BJ spent a lot of time and energy to carry out my creative vision. I'd pinned a several furniture ideas involving pallets and he remembered seeing some by the dumpsters at Mahaffie! It turns out pallet projects aren't quite as simple as they seem since the nails could hold up against the apocalypse, but as usual he persevered and everything turned out great! We'd bought the perfect navy bunk bed off Craigslist (consequently meeting the sweetest family with triplet boys and a younger boy!) and I began to try to gather train paraphernalia and posters to decorate. It all kind of came together in phases, but I am so happy with it. It still needs a few little decor touches, but I can do that over time.

The boys handled the transition quite a bit better than I had thought they might. They were pretty excited about the idea of a bunk bed. We still weren't sure if we could handle Pierce being on the top bunk. I had been the one saying I thought it was doable, but I have to admit that once I saw how tall it was I had second thoughts! We let them practice climbing up and down and went over our big rules...
1. Ask one of us first before climbing up
2. No bouncing of standing on the top
3. No playing with the ceiling fan
4. No rough house at the top
The great thing about those two is that if we set pretty firm and serious expectations, they usually do really well with following through. So we thought we'd give it a whirl. To unbunk the beds would have meant taking out furniture and it just looked so great and functional with the beds bunked. We told them that if they needed anything in the middle of the night or when they were ready to get up to just call us instead of getting out of bed. And it's worked! I love it! I dreaded the day when I was scared out of my mind in the middle of the night with a tiny person at the side of my bed, but they've been great. They are such good sleepers and either whine or call for us when they're up. Pretty great transition I'd say. It's another bittersweet phase as I'm having to accept yet another level of their big boyhood.