Our house has 4 bedrooms upstairs [one additional bedroom in the basement- 2 whole levels away!]. Perfect for 3 kids. Well now that H4 is on their way [woot! 20 weeks today!!]- we have some room figuring out to do. I suppose I should say had because we figured it out but now is the hard part where we actually stick with the plan.
But first we have a few problems.
The first we created way too long ago was letting Henry sleep in bed with us. & by 'us' I mean pretty much on top of me all.night.long. Yeah it's not ideal and needs to stop.
& second. Holden has been an angel sleeper- going to bed around 715/730 and waking up at 8. Ahhhh my sweet Holden. Well until last week where as I was getting something out of my bedroom I see Holden walking in [after we already put him in his crib] and said with a huge smile, "No nigh nigh yet mommy!" Rinse and repeat. Big problem- no big boy bed ready for him yet.
Soooo what did we do??? We tried- keyword being 'tried'- to get both boys to sleep in Henry's room with the queen sized bed. I mean what little kids wouldn't want to sleep with their sibling?!? A whole room to themselves, no parents and we even told them to play before they went to bed. Riiiiight. Not my kids. Lots of screaming to get out and banging on the door.
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Next plan- bunk beds. Since the boys will have to share a room until Henry is old enough to move to the bedroom in the basement [maybe like when he is 15...lol] we figured we should try and make this as cool & fun as possible. What's more fun than bunk beds? Bunk beds with a MAGIC TENT, that's what!!!
Ta da!!!!!!!!! Thank you Ikea!!!
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Question number 1: do you know/are you going to find out if baby #4 is a boy or a girl?
Question number 2: if you find an answer to this, please let me know! (I guess this really isn't a question - ha!) My kids share a room (27 months old and 15.5 months old) and my 2 year old can't go to sleep by himself and both of them wake up in the middle of the night and can't get out of their beds (which I think is wonderful) but when they cry, they wake the other one up. So I've trained them that when they cry? mommy comes. if not, the other one wakes up because of the first one's crying. It's a vicious cycle! My kids have crib-mattress-sized bunk beds and the bottom bunk is literally on the floor, so my youngest won't fall out, but can't get out herself, and the top bunk is only maybe 48 inches or so off the ground, and my 2 year old is 3 feet tall (literally. like 37 inches!) so I'm not worried about him falling out, and he hasn't grasped the going DOWN the ladder concept yet. How do you get your children to sleep? And how in the world do you function on not much sleep? You seem put together and like you have everything under control, but you have 3 kids under 4 with one on the way! how do you do it all?? I LOVE your blog, btw. Good luck to you!
Our boys share a room (almost 4 and 2). Dylan sleeps in a full bed and Will in a toddler bed. We've had issues with Will staying in the room (literally comes out 15-20 times before going to sleep at night) so we bought a door lock for the inside of their door. I close the door shut when they go to bed and they quickly realized they can't get out. Bedtime is easy now, they go right to bed.
I open the door when I go to bed (so they aren't stuck in the room in case of a fire, emergency, etc) and then they know in the morning they come get mommy when they wake up and DO NOT wake up the other. Typically this works...sometimes they still wake each other up which is frustrating but it seems to work.
They nap in separate rooms though, one naps in my bed because they will never fall asleep in the same room.
We did buy a handle with a lock and flipped the handle so the lock is on the outside. So far they aren't keen on the idea of being stuck in there but yes we would unlock after they are sleeping for emergencies.
I have a 2 1/2 year old , a 1 1/2 year old and a 8 month old and I'm going through this saaaame issue! I have 3 babies that have 3 different sleep routines. Luckily I have two in cribs still so I can keep them put! I guess this is part of the *fun* times of being a mommy, huh!?!
I admit I totally bed share with my 2 yo and 4 yo (My husband works overnights... its lonely in there!) But I think the 4 yo is now growing out of it. I can say though that the boys sharing a room with bunk beds has worked for us when we do different bedtimes. As long as we put one kid down first - it doesn't matter which - and we wait until they are asleep and then put the second one down we have had no problems.
My oldest is Henry's age (and would only sleep in his bed 1/2 of the night), and when my 2nd came along I needed the oldest to sleep in his bed all night. At 3 years old, I can bribe him to do just about anything :) So I paid him in coins for each night he slept all night in his bed (I told him he could come to my bed when the sun came out). It actually worked! It helped that he had something he wanted to spend the money on (Ice cream truck) :) Good luck!
Not related to this post, but I remember you got the stackable mothers rings awhile back. Are you still happy with them? Have you had any problems with lose stones or tarnishing?
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