The New Room

Finally! A post about the new room. I intended to make this post almost two weeks ago, but my hospital stay last week got a little in the way of that. Penelope and I are doing very well at home so far. I had one trip to the MEU this past Saturday night (courtesy of my dear friend Amanda so that Gary could stay with the kids). Thankfully, two shots of terbutaline knocked out the contractions this time, so I didn't get admitted and was able to go back home around 2:30 Sunday morning.

So, here we go. The weekend before last, Gary moved the kids from their old room to the new room. He had to take apart the cribs to get them into the new room, and then used furniture sliders for the rest. Then he had to move all the things in the bathroom, closet, etc. I was pretty shocked that he got it all moved as quickly as he did. The furniture was in and ready Saturday after lunch, just in time for naps.

To begin, here is a shot of the new room from the old hallway (in the "new hallway" the door to the bathroom is on the left and the two doors to the two new walk-in closets are to the right):

And here are pictures of the room from the "new hallway":




A shot of the bathroom from the new hallway, followed by a close-up pic (I just realized that I forgot to take a picture of the part of the bathroom with the tub and toilet -- it's not that exciting anyway):




After taking these pics, I sat down under the window at the end of the room to wait on the kids. I took a pic of their new (bigger) chairs:



And then I just waited for Gary to bring the kids up from their lunch. They have been dying to get into the new room since the construction began, but we rarely let them in there. I couldn't wait to see their reaction to the room itself, but I also couldn't wait to see if they could figure out what it meant that all of their furniture was in the new room. And I waited. . . .



Then the kids finally showed up. They were SO confused at first. . . .






Piper was definitely the first one to figure out what was going on and lose the confused expression on her face:



Rosemary took a little longer to figure it out:




There was a lot of exploration -- the new chairs, the bathroom, looking in the cribs to make sure they were their own cribs, etc.










Once the kids figured out that not only were they allowed in that room but that room was going to be their new bedroom, they got REALLY excited. They just ran. And ran and ran and ran. And then they would take a break and sit in their new chairs. Then they'd take off running again!


















Then, as they got more comfortable, the kids started pulling things out of the drawers of the dresser and armoire, and trying on what they could figure out. Then they would run a little more:











We have one small issue in that we don't have a full length shutter for the window in there due to the radius over the window. When Gary and I first moved in the house over 7 years ago and got the estimate on shutters for the house, we quickly decided to go the cheaper route of not having the shutters made to cover the radius and just to cut off the shutter at a certain point and let light come in. Once we decided to put the kids in that room, no amount of money seemed too much to keep the sunlight out of the room -- thus lead to more sleeping. So, we have ordered a radius made to fit the top of the window, but since it won't be in for a couple more weeks, we had to compromise:

So far the kids love the new room and are sleeping very well in there. It was an easy transition. We are going to be doing some work to our backyard, so that is the next big thing on our list. After that, Gary will paint Penelope's room and start getting everything ready for her. Lots of exciting things going on around here!!