New Rooms!

Her Side
His Side
Their new room
Playing blocks together in their new room
I love it when they play like this together.

Last week I got to go with my good friend, Heather to the Baby Expo downtown. That is where several "baby" companies come to show and sell their stuff. She has an online baby company (My Designer Baby - see my links to the side.) so she was able to go and check out all the vendors. They sell a lot of their items, especially the sample items at wholesale, or below wholesale. I went on the last day so I figured most of the stuff I'd want would already be claimed by others, and I was there as some of the companies were starting to take their display down. Luckilly towards the end we were passing some bunk beds that had signs on them that the samples were for sale. That was exactly what I was wanting and looking for. We were able to get a beautiful bunk bed for the kids (since I'm already "nesting" and all about consolidating space in our tiny house lately). It retails at around $800, and we were able to get it for $250. Much better quality and only about $25 more than the beds we were looking at at Walmart. Plus he gave us the mattresses for a steal as well. The only problem was that when we put the beds up in the bedroom Hayden was a little nervous to climb up, and Rebecca, of course, had no fear. In addition the ceiling fan in Hayden's bedroom (now their room) isn't a "kid's" ceiling fan. If it had been on it could have easily hit Hayden or Rebecca's head while they were on the top bunk, standing. So for now the beds are separated, but I actually love the way the room turned out. Now we have a play room for the next 5 months, until the baby comes. Here are the pictures of the finished project that kept me busy last week. (That's why my room ect. was such a mess, I'd rather make curtains than clean my room.) The kids love their new beds. Every time Hayden gets in bed he says, "It's so comfy." Rebecca just loves the added freedom. Now she can easily reach the light switch, and go get in Hayden's bed with him as he's trying to get to sleep. But overall it hasn't been too difficult of a transition.