We were busy this weekend. We tagged and sorted things for the church yard sale (on the 24th!) on Friday morning. Then Em and Jase's bed arrived that afternoon. It took five hours, as there was a lot of "help", but we had fun with it, and in the end, we did get the new bed together. They love it! It looks and functions beautifully! Huge hit.
The bedding? Not such a hit. We bought Jase an adorable bugs quilt set. We thought surely he'd love it, with the great colors, and the lovely, whimsical stitching. There are lightning bugs and bugs in jars, and even quilted magnifying glasses with goofy-eyed bugs beneath them. It's just a fun, fun quilt.
No. Not even close. Not only does he not think it's a fun little quilt, he thinks we need to get him a real blanket.
He went so far as to drag John's beat up old pirate comforter down the hall into his room. He dropped it at my feet and muttered, "There. There's a blanket."
I hope he gets over that, because it's quite well-made, and looks like it will last him a long, long time.
EmBaby's lovely quilt arrived yesterday. She likes it just fine, but its arrival was a bit anti-climactic after she'd been sleeping in the new bed for two nights. Still, at least she doesn't hate it. And, it makes us smile to see her wee head poking out from all that quilty flowered cottony goodness at night.
We put Gram's rocking chair in there, too, so there's a place for stories. (The new bunk bed styles seem to be significantly shorter than the old ones - Big People cannot sit upright on the lower bunk. Even the larger of the Littles can't do it. I don't care for that much, at all. But we're loving the rocking chair in there!)
And the steps! Oh, how they *all* love the steps! It's easy to get up and down, we don't have to worry about somebody falling in the middle of the night (disoriented babies trying to get down to go pee don't need to navigate a ladder). We'll have to move the ceiling fan (ugh!) but otherwise, everything's set for a while, in the nursery.
Kiss those babies!~Dy
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Oh I just love that bed and the bedding (despite how anti-climactic it was for the littles.) And the rocking chair is perfect!
Thanks, Dawn. Zorak's Gram gave that to us, shortly after we had Jacob. She got it for her anniversary one year. Said she came walking up the lane from working in the fields, and there it was, set atop the row of mail boxes. I still get choked up, just thinking of the story - her eyes lit up, thinking about it, 50 years later.
Bunk beds are fabulous, aren't they? Although I agree - it is too bad that they're made so short now so you can't sit up straight on the bottom. We have the same problem with ours, but so far no complaints from the littles. :)
I love it all, Dy.
Joe wants bunk beds now. He told us the other day that he wants sleep "up in the air." LOL
Dy, you have to post a pic of "John's beat up old pirate comforter." I have to see it. :D
~sdWTMer
Hi Dy!
It's been awhile! The kids are beautiful and getting so grown-up. I think we may have finally found our Forever House: We recently finished, or nearly finished (is it really ever finished?) a renovation and are all settled in. Ahhhhhhhh.
Sarabelle's starting college next week (!), Grice is in grade 10, and I'm still homeschooling Elle. Tempus is really fugiting.
DY It's been a month... Im concerned the children got lost behind the bunk beds and couldnt find their way out!
Love the Jase "proper blanket" scene. Laughed out loud and am still smiling.
Great steps! I still have memories of whackign body parts climbing up and down the end of our bunks many moons ago.
Thanks for sharing.
Pam
I love, love, love the steps!! I have never seen one with steps. After having had to scoop many a fallen boy off the ground at night due to ladder incidents, I think this bed is brilliant.
The kids are soooooo BIG! Holy COW! And seeing little Em gives me great hope for Maisie :-)
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