In order to get her room ready we had to kick Caleb out of it. So, this weekend, Caleb moved in with Noah and the Boy's Room was born. Since Caleb hasn't figured out how to climb out of his crib yet and Noah is, obviously, still in a crib that means we have two cribs in the boys room right now. When you add the crib in the girl's room that makes for 3 cribs in our house right now. I'm pretty sure we're not insane.
Anyway, back to the Boy's Room....
We were pretty nervous, but curious, to find out how the boys would sleep in the same room. They've only slept in the same room once before, up at my parent's cabin. Let's just say, it wasn't very fun.
We started painting on Saturday so that afternoon Caleb was officially "moved" and we got to see if they would take an afternoon nap together. We put the boys in their cribs and then went back to work on our painting. What followed was roughly 1 1/2 hours of the sounds of two boys having a very good time: Funny noises from Caleb followed by chuckling from Noah, yelling, banging, etc. We'd check in on them and find Caleb walking around his crib and Noah doing his best to poke his head over the bumper to watch him. They seemed to be having fun and we were getting lots of painting done. Naps, however, were definitely not happening.
Luckily, that hasn't been the norm.
They've been in the same room for almost 4 days now and they seem to love it. For the most part, they've been able to take their naps together, they've been able to go to bed at the same time, and if one of them wakes the other up in the middle of the night they are able to go back to sleep without too much trouble.
I actually really like having them in the same room. It seems to have made them better friends (they play more with each other during the day) and there's nothing I'd want more for them. So when I put them down for a nap and for over an hour all I hear is the sound of playing and laughing, I don't mind....that much.
4 comments:
My girls have pretty much always shared a room. It gets rough sometimes, especially now that they're older and want their own space, but for the most part they've done really well. It sounds like your boys will, too. Even if they're reeeeeeally tired some days :)
Love, love, love it! I really like the thought of Caleb yukkin' it up and Noah playing right along. :)
We love having our boys share a room, most of the time. In the evening it always takes them a good 1/2 hour to hour to get all their talking out, but I just have to think of it as time well spent becoming that much better friends. Have to say that Emma is a little jealous and wishes she had someone to be her "buddy" at night. Hmmm.
sounds like some super cuteness going on at your house!
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