Room Sharing

This weekend marked another seemingly routine event in our home - rearranging rooms!  About a month before Luke was born (this time last year), we turned our guest room into a playroom.  It was fabulous!  No more toys to trip on in the living room/kitchen and I felt like that is the one room that could be a mess all day and I was fine with it.  Since that time, we added a bed in the playroom for Meredith and Luke moved to her bedroom upstairs.  I've always wished the rooms in this house were all upstairs, as it would just make things flow better to have all of us sleeping on the same floor.  When Meredith had night-wakings, she sometimes could be found starting to climb up the stairs to get to our room.  We talked about waiting until Luke slept through the night to try to combine the kids in the same room.  He hit that milestone at 8 months and Meredith seems to be having less night-wakings (usually due to pottying), so we felt the time was right.  Naps are a big struggle, since they both want to talk and laugh.  But, once they are asleep, they both seem to be pretty sound sleepers.  Nighttime worked perfect the first three nights.  We put Luke to sleep at 7:00 and took Meredith up at 8:00.  She didn't disturb him and both woke up for the day around 7:00 a.m.  Well, night #4 was hard and last night was really rough.  One of them woke up on each night and disturbed our sleep quite a bit.  However, the other child seemed to remain asleep which was a huge blessing.  I think we will continue to have troubles when Luke is teething or Meredith is working on staying dry all night, but overall, we are hoping this set-up will work!  I love having a full room just for toys, plus, it's nice only needing to clean up one bedroom :)

I still want to paint their room and hang up some decor, but otherwise, I really like this set-up and the room is still spacious: