We’ve been talking about moving the girls into the same bed, ever since we moved them into the same room. It is well established that my children sleep MUCH better when snuggled up next to someone. Hence the many nights each week that someone ends up between their mommy and daddy or begging for some snuggle time before bed. We were hoping that letting them sleep together would provide us with much better sleep and a later start to our weekend mornings.
To say they were excited is a little of an understatement! They knew on Friday that it was their last night in separate beds (although we’re leaving the crib up for a few weeks in case of an emergency). On Saturday morning, we loaded up and ran to the storage building to pick up the bed frame and mattress that we’ve had since buying our house eight years ago. It’s a full sized iron bed with lovely chippy green paint and plenty of rust showing through. Ella was confused about why I didn’t want to paint it, but I am in love.
We’re using the striped quilt from her twin bed until I can find a replacement. The duvet cover is a floral Pottery Barn Kids number that was handed down from an older cousin several years ago. I just put a down blanket in it that I found on clearance at Walmart for $21. The white pillowcases have pink embroidered trim and were my great aunt’s. I plan to have their initials monogrammed on them at some point. The ballerina sheets were a fast find at Homegoods on Friday afternoon. They were $24 for the set and we LOVE them. Even Sophie, who boycotts blankets most nights, wants to sleep under the ballerinas.
On Sunday morning, Sophie walked into our room at 7 o’clock. If you know Taz, then you realize that it’s pretty late for her. Ella had to be begged out of bed at 8:30 to get ready for church.
On Sunday night, I realized after several hours that I forgot to replace Sophie’s big girl panties with a pull up! I went into their room to quietly change her and found them all wrapped up together like a pretzel. I unwound them and changed her without waking anyone and as soon as I covered them back up, they turned into each other and wrapped their arms and legs around each other again. Success.
I am working on a few other changes to their rooms in the next few weeks and hope to have a good old-fashioned room tour to share very soon. For now, here are a few of my favorite Instagram snaps of their new (old) bed!
