Earlier in the year we embarked on the "Great Room Switch," where we took Rebecca out of the pink nursery, painted it tan, made it into the office/guest room, and moved her into the former office, which we painted purple (at her request). Her new room is bigger. She's been in that room for a few months now, and enjoys it, but we still haven't finished putting it all together.
Well, this past weekend, we embarked on phase two of the "Great Room Switch," which was an unexpected addition to the original plan. While cleaning out my grandpa's house/attic, my mom found my grandparents' old dining room table, which she thought had been gone for years. I've never had a dining room table, and no one else wanted it, so my mom asked me if I wanted it. Our dining room has been our play room ever since Rachel was little, but we've been talking about eventually turning it into a real dining room at some point. Now that we had the dining room table, we decided to get to work.
This means that all of the toys have to go in the girls' rooms. Rebecca had quite a bit of room, since we still hadn't really finished with her room. We're still trying to figure out Rachel's room--she has SO much stuff and is a big pack rat who doesn't want to get rid of anything, so her room is a little more challenging.
But anyway, today I worked on Rebecca's room. The toys are almost all out of the dining room now. Once it's looking like a real dining room, I'll take some pictures. But here's a glimpse at Rebecca's close-to-finished room. (Ignore the fan....it's her white noise during nap time--and notice the Hello Kitty poster, which I FINALLY just put up after she received it LAST Christmas!!! I kept thinking we'd be changing her room, so I didn't want to put it up in her old room, but I never dreamed it would take almost a whole year to get to this point!)
We haven't had the trains out in a couple of years. She never seemed very interested in them, so we just put them away and used the train table to house other toys, like castles, lalaloopsy houses, etc.--it was just a play table. But she has been asking for trains lately, so we decided to give it a try. It's kind of in the middle of her room, but the room is big enough that it works for now, as long as she plays with them. That blank space behind it, we're trying to decide whether to put our toy kitchen there or a bookshelf that's currently in the dining room, and it'll house more toys. We'll see.
And totally off topic, but a week or two ago my mom took Rachel to see The Lion King Broadway show, which was touring in Columbus. Rachel loved it. She begged to wear this Christmas dress from two or three years ago--it still fits her, which is a little sad (the sleeves are too short, but otherwise, it fits her fine!).
