Barracks and a Study

When Bo was here, we moved Justin in temporarily with the big boys. Then we all slept in one room in Toronto. It went well enough that we decided to make it a permanent move. Justin is still not ready to be in a toddler bed (well, we're not ready to have him in a toddler bed), so for now he will sleep in the pack n play. We bought a foam mattress pad and cut it down to make it more comfortable. The pack in play fits perfectly between the bunk beds and Luke's dresser. When he moves to the toddler bed, we will have to rearrange a bit, but it should still fit fine.  The big boys are not bothered if Justin cries during the night, although we are still fine tuning bedtime. They do have a hard time all going to sleep together as Luke and Michael keep playing with Justin and not letting him sleep. We've tried putting Justin to bed first, but the boys cannot seem to be quiet enough not to disturb him when they go to bed (we'll keep practicing). Right now, we are keeping Justin up until the boys fall asleep and then he'll go down fine. My kids have never played in their room, so transitioning their room into a bunkhouse for boys just makes sense. Justin's name is on the wall now (the other boy's have theirs up on the other walls), so there's no turning back! Sure, I could have made the boys' beds for the picture, but I was going for realism! BTW, there were three kids in this room when we bought the house--three girls sleeping in twin-over-full bunk beds.

 The reward? A study! Matt has really wanted a place to quietly be away from everything and I do work from home, too. We moved all of the bookcases in there and have been able to bring up some of our own books for the first time in probably 3 years. We probably need a different desk as this is a computer desk without a computer, but it will work fine for now and it does have our printer/scanner on it. Luke does his homework on it and Michael likes it, too.

 The kids' books are in here, too, and Luke just had to try out the new reading chair we got on clearance at Value City. Our degrees are finally on the wall, too!

This will also be our new guest room. It should be much warmer and more comfortable than the playroom was and allows us to send the kids down to the playroom to get out of our hair when guests are here.