Sofia's "new" room

On Sunday July 24th, CK moved Sofia's bed up to her "new" room for her first night sleep upstairs. When we first started discussing which rooms Sofia and the new baby should sleep in, I originally suggested that the baby's room be upstairs, but CK wisely convinced me that having the baby in Sofia's room downstairs was easier and safer. So, we decided to move Sofia up to the larger of the two guest rooms and she wasn't that impressed with the decision to begin with. However, the more we talked about it she got more and more excited. Finally, she was ready to move upstairs once we repainted her new room. She originally asked that her room upstairs be pink, and we agreed that one pink room per house was enough, so I picked out a few sample colors that were a more gender-neutral blue-green-silver color that we thought would work in the baby's room. I painted a few sample squares on the wall and Sofia completely fell in love with one of the samples and kept saying she wanted it for her new room! Problem solved! So, we had her new room repainted in the blue-green-silver color she picked out and repainted the baby's room so the bead board bottom half of the room is now white and the top half of the walls are a a little brighter pink than before.

Along with the bed, we moved Sofia's books and most of her toys upstairs, but are waiting to pick out a book case to store all of her books (we need the baskets that are holding her books for the baby's room to hold diapers). So, Sunday night CK took Sofia upstairs after hugs and kisses and read her stories in her "new" room. She slept great that night and has since! She also goes upstairs every day to read and play and also whenever she needs to go potty. She's completely taken with her new room which is exciting and a lot easier than we expected!

PICTURES TO COME (once it's better organized).