I Am Woman...

... hear me roar! I was finally done with having to share my room with babies. I told Jeff a while ago that Erica really needed to get out of the room with Aidan and Sofia needed out of ours. So I took action. First I asked if Jeff had any attachment to the insanely large computer desk we got from his friend. When he said 'no' I went to work planning the layout in my mind. It has been bliss having Erica go to bed in her own room (sharing with the computer of course) and not have her yell out "mommy, Aidan is bothering me..." I got Sofia out of my room and I had forgotten how big my room really was, that crib took up a lot of space. So here are the before and after pictures. Unfortunately I started to take pictures after I already started on the desk, there was a big shelf that went over and around the big monitor.













This is what it looked like when I started. By now I had the top of the desk off and in the dumpster and the two bookshelves moved. The smaller one is in my room and the large one... you'll see.














Once the table was down, but not out for the count yet, I was able to get it downstairs but not in the dumpster, tooooooo heavy.


















This is the new home for the larger book shelf. Despite having to share her closet with the books and some other things... she has room for her clothes. Cramming three kids shirts and dresses made for little browsing room.














This is what it looks like now! If you've never seen our office and all the crap we loaded in there you really can't appreciate this view.














So there is no space in my room for the computer, but the small card table makes it not seem so large and intense. I have already told Erica that the computer and the brown box are off limits, she's good about following that rule.














And finally, her bed, of course it's made up now. But I was just too excited to get pictures of the wonderful, non cluttered up, room. And again, such bliss having the kids in the rooms they are in now.

Late Again

So here it is, two months later and I'm just now getting pictures taken to post. I have broken my promise to be better at this. Oh well! Life has been busy, crazy, messed up and then some. So forgive my lateness in this post. I took some pictures of Sofia, which are at the end. She has gotten so big and is soooo close to walking. Can we say baby gates?!














We decided to celebrate Jeff's birthday today since he'll be working tomorrow, his actaul birthday. The kids were excited to help him blow out the candles, I just was too late in snapping the picture.













As you can see, he's maintaining the shorter hair cut. He's soooooo old now! Sofia would have been in the picture too, but this was taken after her bed time.... my sanity values bedtime!














Isn't she beautiful? I know I'm biased... but today was picture day so I made an effort to make her hair look nice.














Eating his "cake" and loving every bite. Just what we need.... a boy full of sugar just before bed.


















I have some pictures, somewhere, of Erica wearing this. My niece Saidee has worn these too.














She is always this happy in the mornings, and after a good nap. She must sleep with her blanket, the pooh bear is optional.


















These are the jammies that Aunt Amy gave her. The size is for 6mo, so it's becoming a bit small, length wise anyways. But I just had to have her in them before it got too small.














Isn't she just a cutie! She has discovered the stairs and that if not watched, or if the gate is not up, then she can climb all the way to the top in seconds.