{"id":11749,"date":"2017-07-03T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=11749"},"modified":"2017-07-03T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T18:03:39","slug":"the-great-room-switch-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=11749","title":{"rendered":"The Great Room Switch of 2017!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The time has finally come to let the kids divide into a boys room and a girls room. \u00a0It has always been the plan to do so, but we were waiting until the summer as well as making sure Levi wouldn’t wake anyone else up in his room. \u00a0I knew this would be an exciting switch for the kids, but I didn’t expect just HOW exciting it was going to be for them.<\/p>\n

They were basically counting down the hours until we could start the switch. \u00a0Which then was really tricky to try and do since we had to do all the moving in between naps (and at this stage of life someone is sleeping almost ALL the time). \u00a0So as soon as we had a nap-free window, we would scramble and pull things from one room to the other or try and get clothes swapped or get the bed from the garage back into the house, etc. It took us about two days to get everything sorted out and put back together.<\/p>\n

For the most part the switch has been smooth sailing. \u00a0Levi is excited to have Josiah in his room so he’ll stand in his crib looking at him for a long time, but he’ll usually settle down and go to sleep just fine. \u00a0Josiah is doing exceptionally well. \u00a0He is so proud to be in the boys room now that I feel like he could burst with happiness.<\/p>\n

Chloe had a little harder time with the transition than we expected–not so much having Maddie in her room, because that’s the same that it has been, but with the actually rearranging of the furniture. \u00a0She had built up a grand plan of how she was expecting things to be moved and look and basically none of it happened (due to the size of their room and furniture–there just aren’t a lot of options). \u00a0We also though we were going to have her bed lofted, in order to fit the toddler bed underneath, so she would need a new ladder built… but then after looking at the design of the bed and our options it really just made so much more sense to simply transition Maddie directly to the bottom bunk instead of the toddler bed. \u00a0Meaning she didn’t get her new ladder either. \u00a0So. \u00a0There were a lot of tears and frustrations. \u00a0But we got through it. \u00a0And now she’s totally fine with it.<\/p>\n

Then there’s Maddie… we knew this would be a whole new world with Maddie moving out of her crib. \u00a0But we were also feeling the crunch of space and it just made the most sense to let her move up. \u00a0I intentionally started this process this past Wednesday, so I had all the way until Monday to be able to keep a close eye on her (because I teach on Mondays and Tuesdays in the summer and I need her to stay in her bed while I’m teaching in the afternoon). \u00a0The first day was not good. \u00a0She was enjoying her new found freedom way too much. \u00a0There were warnings and jumping and playing and touching the window blinds and consequences then tears and finally I just ended up laying in the room. \u00a0HOWEVER, I’m happy to report that she’s fully transitioned now. \u00a0She climbs right into bed and lays down and doesn’t get up until we come to get her. \u00a0Yay! \u00a0That was a long 5 days, let me tell you. \u00a0\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So, we now have a boys room and a girls room. \u00a0And the only switch that will have to happen in another year or two is getting a bunk bed for the boys. \u00a0But that is so far in the future right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The time has finally come to let the kids divide into a boys room and a girls room. \u00a0It has always been the plan to do so, but we were waiting until the summer as well as making sure Levi wouldn’t wake anyone else up in his room. \u00a0I knew this would be an exciting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11749"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11749\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}