Growing Up....

Over the weekend, we FINALLY got around to transitioning Shae's room to a big girl room.  I say "finally" because we actually bought the bed and all the bedding about 2 months ago with the intention of doing it for her 2nd birthday.  But, with Tom working out of town (yes, that is STILL going on..ugh), we just have not had the time.  He is only home for a few days at a time and he is so tired when he is here because of how demanding the job in CA. is that I have felt too sorry for him to push him into going to all that trouble.

But, over Thanksgiving weekend we did it!  He was home for a longer than usual stretch and we made it happen.  I'm SO glad we did....it turned out super cute :)

Her room went from this:

To this:

Kinda sad to no longer have any crib babies, but I also love the transition!  The bed turned out so great. We found it on Craigslist and as soon as I saw it, knew it was meant for her room.  The colors were almost exact to her furniture.  We were going to just do some touch up, but realized that it needed to be re painted.  So we ended up sanding and repainting the whole bed in the same colors we had painted her nightstand and dresser when we first set up the nursery.  I did not purchase anything additional for the room....just the bed and bedding(which is the full size version of her crib bedding).  We simply moved a few of the pictures around and moved the armoire to where the crib had been.  I was not thrilled with the bed having to go under the window (and not centered---totally goes against my interior design training) but because of the shape of the room and size of the bed, we had no choice.  Believe me, we tried a few different options.  I'm still loving it, though.  Now whether or no she will start sleeping there all night is yet to be determined.  It's been 3 nights so far and she is still waking.  I'm hoping with a little more time, she'll adjust and FINALLY start sleeping through the night.   One things for sure, she is growing up fast and is loving her big girl room.  And whether she sleeps all night in the bed or not, she sure does look cute in it :-)