Out with the old and in with the new!

Since we spent a quiet Christmas at home with just our kids, we decided to use some of the extra time to begin preparing for Baby Girl Aust...arriving in just 3 short months!

We live in a 3 bedroom house, so it was time to transition Caleb into Sammy's room. We had tried this before...when Caleb was about 7 months old...but needless to say, it did NOT go well! Caleb struggled with sleeping consistently through the night until he was close to a year, and it just wasn't worth the hassle every night of trying to put 2 kids back to sleep.

Now at 4 and 2 1/2, they play together (most days) like champs and have been asking to room together...and we wanted to move them before they changed their minds!

This room has now been painted 3 times in just 5 short years. (It's a good thing I like painting and am fast at it!)

When we were first expecting Sammy, we painted her room purple.


Just ignore the plants and dirt on the floor. A friend's little girl had a good time "playing" in this room one weekend. That is a story in itself!

Anyway...

Then, after Caleb was 6 months or so, we wanted to move him into Sammy's room so that we still had a guest bedroom. (We have a lot of family from out of state, and we really wanted to have a queen bed and room for them when they visit...sometimes for up to 2 weeks.) So in preparation of moving them into the same room...which, again, never happened...we decided to keep the purple and added yellow and blue stripes.

These pictures were taken right before I began painting.


It was a crazy, but fun little toddler room. And we've had it this way since about March of 2008.


But, boy were we ready for a change!

We spent the last several months trying to find some bedding we liked. Seriously, bedding is EXPENSIVE!!! We finally found something we liked...actually most of the boy and girl bedspreads had at least one color in common. I thought I knew which one Sammy would pick (a pink one with yellow and light green stripes) and then I was going to grab a coordinating one (a blue with tan and light green stripes) for Caleb.

Note to self: Do NOT let a 4 year old girl choose her own bedspread. She will pick one you NEVER thought she would!

So, after much reasoning (on our part) and tears (on Sammy's part), we finally caved and let her choose a pretty purple poka-dot bedspread...which in no way, shape, or form, coordinated with any of the boy bedspreads.

Arg!

But, hopefully, these 2 bedspreads will last a long time...much longer than a princess or Thomas the Train one would last...and the kids can grow into them and use them when if they ever get their own rooms again.

The paint colors were hard to come up with, but we did like the result!


The room does look smaller with these bright colors, but it does look more like a kid's room and less like a baby one!


So, for now, the projects are done...well, that is, until we decide what color to paint the baby's room!