Big Girl Room, Big Girl Bed

Well, it's official. After having my room semi-ready since March, I have finally decided to make it my own instead of just "The Pink Room". Mom's been telling me for about a week now that I can let her know when I'm ready to sleep in my big girl bed and today was the day, October 24th, 2009! (Yes, I'm a bit behind in posting this.)

Here I am taking my very first nap in my new bed.

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Some details on how it has been going. After a rough wake up and climbing out of my bed without permission from mom, I finally got this down and agreed to mom's rules. Stay in bed till I open your door. There was no negotiating on this though I tried my hardest for about 40 minutes that day. We've been very successful since that day in following the rules, taking naps, and sleeping mostly through the night. My wake up schedule has been a little off and mom doesn't think my quality of sleep has been quite the same yet, but we've had no relapses and we continue to press forward with the move.

Here's a couple pictures of my completed room. Mom refinished the bed for me, it's an antique and took her a lot longer than she had hoped. Papa helped her with the painting and some of the sanding. The dresser was my mom's when she was little, she's updated it a bit and made me some hand-painted knobs for it too that match my room perfect! And then there's my reading corner, my favorite. Thanks Nana for my bookcase! I'm hoping to get a chair at some point, but right now I love to lay on my rug and read with the butterflies.

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Monday Mom's Play Group

Here is a rare picture of all of the kids in our "Monday Mom's" play group.

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Mom started this play group back in the spring and it was and is a combination of our friends from the library and gymnastics. We've got a pretty steady group now and even more exciting is the fact that we'll be adding 3 new babies to the group in the next 3-4 months. So with that, we celebrated the new ones on the way with a baby shower!

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Here's a rare picture of mom from the side. Check out that baby, it's sure making mom's belly big! (And yes, that's a fork in her hand, the chocolate cake was amazing!)

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