A couple weeks ago, after Annabelle's second round of Endoscopies, I decided it was time to give in to Mady begging and my wishing for a change - so we rearranged upstairs.. quite a bit. Mady moved into Annabelle's room and we turned Mady's room into a playroom! It's so cool and so sweet. The first trick was getting all the furniture to fit, and to our surprise, it actually did. The bedroom is full of Mady's twin bed, Annabelle's crib/toddler bed and both girls dressers and that's it. They don't need anything else in a bedroom really. The playroom is a lot of fun and will now host ALL toys, so I get every bit of the rest of my house back, and I couldn't be more happy about it!
The girls are enjoying sharing a room. They truly don't seem to wake one another. Mady knows the rule is that she has to stay in bed and cannot get up until her sister wakes, so it's actually helpful at keeping Mady in bed and not coming into our room at 5:30am. Annabelle is becoming a heavier sleeper, finally, and it's no issue. I am loving it. SO MUCH! I think the girls enjoy it too. Only one night have we checked the monitor and found both kids in the same bed, and it was actually Mady in BELLE's bed :) If everything continues to go well then we will consider looking for bunk beds. I just wanted to make sure it wasn't going to fail miserably first before we made that type of investment.So far though, they are really loving it.
Mady is always so concerned about her sister. She will scream her head off into tears if she see's Annabelle even PICK-UP a piece of food, she is terrified she will eat it and get sick. Fortunately, Annabelle usually brings the food to us and never eats it so that's not a problem. Mady loves her sister, she worries about her staying healthy and she protects her from any harm. On the other hand, Annabelle can also drive Mady so nuts it's zero time flat, it's amazing. Mady needs to learn how to stand up to her sister and not take the bullying that ANNABELLE does to HER! Unreal. It's normal sister bickering stuff though, it's hilarious to watch and at times enough to pull your hair out "Uhhhh! Mommmm! Annabelle is looking at me!!!!" Really, kid?! Really.
Annabelle is in LOVE with her sister. I think Mady is starting to pull a close favorite to daddy in her book. I am surely in last place with no chance of moving ahead. Each day that we are home before daddy and Mady, Annabelle looks out the door and literally sqeals with excitement when they pull into the driveway, she screams 'SISSSSSHY!' the baby mumble is enough to melt your heart. I love watching the two of them in love with one another, playing, laughing and growing.
This past Saturday, AK got up with both girls and they were in the playroom together, he came downstairs and crawled back into bed with me while we watched the girls on the camera/tv in our bedroom. If we are in the room with them, they will bicker and whine in a split second. For an hour and a half, ALMOST TWO HOURS(!!!!!) they played together without ever the first mumble of an arguement! What's up with that?! If they keep that up, I will be starting a new parenting technique called 'lock the kids in a room by themselves for 1/2 the day'.
Love those girls though. They are my world.
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