Making Room

For a long time the four of us could fit on the Bulldog no problem. We'd each share a seat belt with a kids and all was good. Darned if three of us aren't growing like weeds and making it kinda tight.

So, Daddy built a backseat! He welded the seat, bought the foam and upholstery, made his own pattern, sewed it up, added the grommets, seat belts etc and voila, we now have a back seat and can once again enjoy Bulldog rides as a family. Daddy's the best.

We have moved Katherine into Jane's room. Originally we were going to move Jane into Katherine's as it's a square so more usable space, but the walk in closet in Jane's room just works so much better. They each have a side and the back wall in the middle now houses a 4 tier toy shelf we made the other day (I'll put some pic's up after their room is finished).

It's actually gone very well. The tricky part, of course, has been how to get them to nap/sleep rather than play. We tried a number of different things for napping and then Nathan discovered the key.

At nap time he sits in their room with them (it only works when he does it, they don't listen to me) and makes them put their blankies over their eyes. They are not allowed to touch their blankies, hence Nathan sitting in there, and within 10 minutes or so they are asleep. It's brilliant as the hardest part is getting them to close their eyes long enough to fall asleep.

Bedtime is a bit more challenging, the blankie things doesn't seem to work at night, no idea why. The past few nights we've put Jane down about 45 min to an hour before Katherine and that's worked beautifully. Jane is always tired before Katherine anyways, so that works, and by letting Katherine stay up another hour she's actually tired when she goes in there and is ready to sleep. We usually read her books in our bed or out on the couch and then have her sneak into the room, crawl under the covers and that's that.

They are both in twin beds now, they look tiny. We're building their headboards and then a family friend is hopefully going to be able to help me paint the wall their beds are on.

I have a big drooping tree in mind. Some kind of mix of these would be perfect I think.