Room Swap

While Evie was vacationing at G's house (post coming...), Jason and I swapped the kids' rooms.

7.28 Evie's last night in her crib transitioned to a toddler bed

7.28 Braylen's last night in the IKEA crib

As soon as the kids woke up on Tuesday morning, Jason was breaking down the white, IKEA crib and putting the crib front back on Evie's toddler bed.  He accomplished more before work that morning than we can accomplish in a week after the kids go to bed!  We were anxious to start the room swap.

Braylen moving into Evie's room (the green room) was an easy move.  It required the crib front being reattached, sound machine relocated, his clothes moved over, the changing pad & related gear switched, and the diaper champ (and all its odor) walked one door down.  Braylen was soundly napping in his new room by nap time on Tuesday afternoon.  His first nap in his new crib lasted three hours.  No problem with that transition.

Evie moving into Bray's room (the blue room) required more time and effort, hence tackling it while Evie was gone.  Evie doesn't have a strong opinion on things like color yet, so we picked out a paint color and room scheme without any much input from her.  We decided on a light purple and dot decals.  Jason and I traded off Braylen duty and painting on Wednesday (Jason took off from work).  We worked quickly and had most of the room put together by the time Evie returned on Thursday night.

Welcome to Evie's new room!

My parents graciously took the double bed from our
storage unit and traded it with my daybed.  A daybed
seems to be a great transition from a crib to single bed for
a little girl like ours :)

Her amazing clock still serves its purpose.
Braylen got his clock this week.  The
training begins...

Really excited to have the hutch back to
hold lots of stuff.  The desk minus the hutch
served as the changing station previously

The "evie" letters were bigger than we
expected, but we're happy the way it turned out

Evie is doing very well in her "big girl bed".  She had no issues sleeping in her toddler bed without the rail, so we figured it was best not to give her that crutch from the beginning.  No issues thus far; she's pretty good at staying in one spot all night.  

Braylen is pretty excited about Evie's bed too. He climbs up there and relaxes on the pillows.  There is plenty of room for both of them!

How you decorate a room when you have two toddler-ish
children.  You give them the iPad.

The white IKEA crib, which by the way is a GREAT crib for $99, promptly traveled across the circle to our neighbor that just delivered her third.  We wanted it out and she needed a cheap crib.  Win-win!  After 20 months with two cribs, we are a one crib family again.