Big Girl Bed

Last week we finally rearranged the kids' room and got Punky into her new big girl bed.  Here is a before shot with the crib, toddler bed and dresser in their room.

We were hoping to relocate most of Punky's dolls when switching to a big girl bed because she had no room to sleep.  It didn't happen, but she now has a lot more room.

We temporarily moved the toddler bed to the garage and set up Auntie Amber's twin bed from when she was a girl.  Derek and I cleared out the room while Punky and Buddy watched nearby and "helped."  All of a sudden, poor little Punky broke out into tears.  She thought by getting a big girl bed we were taking away all of her things.  It took us a few minutes to convince her that all of her toys, pictures on the wall, etc. would be coming back into the room.  It must've been really confusing to her to see all of her stuff get emptied out so quickly!

Punky was excited to put toys and other things in the drawers.  I moved a bunch of baby items from the closet and stuck them deep into the cubby.  Gotta love extra storage!

After we got the room all set up, Punky made sure that we switched the big "L" and "C" around because there was no way she was going to sleep under the "C"!  With the new layout of the room, we lost wall space for the cross-stitch pictures Grandma Debbie made when the kids were babies.  However, we promised Buddy he could move into the toddler bed when he turned 3 in 6 months, so the cross-stitch pictures will eventually hang in their original spots in about 6 months.  We also could not fit a toy shelf that held mostly stuffed animals back into the room.  I am searching for inexpensive storage options, but for now, Buddy has claimed most of the animals as his new buddies and insists on sleeping with them every night.    

A monkey, turtle pillow pet, piggy, turtle, giraffe, prairie dog, racoon, dog, turtle and a frog.

We found him sleeping while buried underneath everything last night!