Collaborate and listen.....

This is phase 1 of the moving Lincoln and James in the same room. Results: Success! Well it was a process. Lincoln was all sorts of excited. James loved the idea but parting with his crib and having the choice to run out was a little tricky. The first night was doing the routines....like exercises, protein shake, read Dino book, read scriptures, pray, then least favorites and favor ties, tuck kids in and off our merry way....well Dale stayed and I was off my merry way. The next night we tortured our poor children and had the lights off and shut the door (the same thing we would do with James in the crib every night since he was 3mths old). But I guess that was too traumatizing for Lincoln since he sleeps with his night light and covers over his head. Lincoln could not handle James crying himself to sleep. Third night was the threat to go back in his crib. We did the routines, then both went off our merry way....until he kept on running out. So, we said you get out of your bed one more time and your sleeping in your crib. I know that was a little risky, because this could have totally backfired. But behold the 4th night. James was threatened with the crib and ran his cute little behind back to his bed and fell right to sleep. It's been blissful ever since. We have waited a couple weeks before Henry goes in the crib, but I'm pretty sure James is over it. Lincoln had our old queen bed since the toddler bed was not a hit. If anyone has slept on that bed knows that bed is the most fabulous bed that we've owned. He was okay with getting rid of it since his brother was moving in.

James helped clean up the room for his stuff to come in. We moved the clothes to Lincolns room before we had Henry. But the other things are slowly coming together.

James loves his big boy bed. We have the mattress and the box springs on the ground for two reasons. a) so when he falls off it's not a far fall (which he has fallen a handful of times already) and b) we wanted to make sure sharing rooms would work before Dale made custom beds. If it didn't work we would buy another queen since that seems like a better long term option. I've now told Dale let the building of their custom baseball beds begin.

Just a side note: When we say our favorites and least favorites for the day, Dale says umm before saying what he thinks. So, now when you ask James what his favorites are he says umm in his sugary sweet voice and giggles at himself. I absolutely love, love, love this part of my day. I work at night and I made myself a split shift so I can do the night time routine.