Somebody's in a Toddler Bed

This week we moved Ryan into a toddler bed. I wasn't really looking forward to this transition as I never am, but it had to happen. Poor Ryan has been sleeping in a pack n play his whole life which is bad enough, but it's gotten a lot of use in the last 4 years and it is totally used up. The pad is horrible. It is broken and it looked so uncomfortable. We felt horrible about him sleeping on it so rather than spend the money on a new pack n play we thought we would try his toddler bed first. I couldn't believe how easy the transition was. I decided to put the toddler bed in our closet since I'm not really ready to deal with a 2 year old trying to sleep in a room with 3 older siblings. The first night I put him in his bed and he just laid down no problem. It was crazy, seriously. I think he was probably in heaven on that nice mattress. He woke up crying twice that night. He woke up once the next night and zero times after that. The next day when I went to put him down for a nap he just laid down and took a nap. Amazing! He's done great so far. There is potential for a lot of trouble if he decides to not take a nap since his bed is in our closet/bathroom. I'm envisioning my make-up being flushed down the toilet. But for now he is being a good little bunny and just sleeps. It's wonderful!

Other than that it's been pretty much same as usual around here. The exciting thing that did happen is Scott built/really our friend Jared built us 2 benches for our kitchen table. When we bought our piano it didn't have a bench with it, which was fine because there isn't really room for one anyway. But then I decided that it would be better to have a bench to work for both the table and the piano. I wanted to do it on both sides because I've never really like the kitchen chairs we had in there anyway. So Scott got to building the benches and went to our friend master carpenter Jared to have him help cut some notches. 4 hours later he had basically built both benches. That was awesome because he has the tools and the skills. Now I just have to figure out how I want to paint them. I've never loved the color of the wood on my table so I'm tempted to strip it down and re-stain it darker and repaint the bottom and do the same to the benches. I'm kind of scared to do it and wintertime is not the best time for a project like this. So we will see what happens. Wish me luck.

Bubba and Daddy

I made these turkeys for Gabby's Family Thanksgiving Feast at school.

Ryan and Hazel (babysitting)

Cute Ryan sleeping in his cute toddler bed. I snapped a picture when I had to wake him up early from his nap to go to dance lessons with his sisters. Poor fourth baby, nap time is not respected. 

Arsty Gabby making a picture of she and I holding hands with clouds and the sun.

Ryan shoved that chair over there to get to the gingerbread house. Trouble is his middle name. Don't worry I totally busted out the Christmas stuff on Friday. In principle I like to wait until after Thanksgiving but in reality I can rarely wait! I'm a hypocrite I guess.

Here's the table with benches. So an easy fix would be to maybe just paint the benches yellow like the chairs, and I could bust that out really quickly BUT I think I want to re-do the whole table as well. I've got a messy, stinky, project on my hands and it's winter! So it's not like I can do it in the garage, it will never dry. Decisions, decisions. I've been reading pinterest tutorials and watching you-tube videos...