A New Big Boy Bed

We have been thinking about putting the boys into one room, whenever we feel that Tyler is ready for a big boy bed, for a while now.  We had seen a style of bunk bed we liked a few months back, and Tim has been keeping his eye out for a good deal on one ever since.  He found an amazing deal on the perfect bed this weekend!  So he drove to Maryland to pick it up and we unexpectedly spent Saturday evening putting it up and rearranging things in both of the boys' rooms.  Luckily Uncle Joe had come over to watch the West Virginia football game, and didn't seem to mind being put to work afterwards... too much.

With the high ceilings we have upstairs, he actually has more head room on the top bunk then the bottom, even I can stand up on the top step!

My view from the top step!

Timmy decided immediately that he wanted to sleep on the top bunk.  The bed has a staircase instead of a ladder, so I'm comfortable with him climbing up and down in the middle of the night if he has to go potty.  Most nights Timmy still asks to sleep in our room, but he's good about sleeping in his own room when we remind him that he has school the next day.  After setting up the bed, Tim asked him if he wanted to sleep in our room or his new bed, and Timmy chose his own room.  Same thing on night two!  Who knew that's all we needed to do!  Although, tucking him I tried to tell him that I couldn't climb up there to snuggle before bed, and he suddenly said he missed his old bed.  I climbed up those narrow stairs very quickly after that!

We were excited about the built in storage in the bed, especially with the prospect of having both boys clothes in the room, but the drawers under the bed are surprisingly shallow.  When Tim lifted up the bottom mattress to make the bed, he realized we could store stuff behind the drawers, and since I had about a dozen bags of clothes that are too small for Tyler but too big to send to their cousin (who we'll be welcoming to the World next month!!!) stashed in Timmy's closet, I was excited to move all of that out of the closet and under the bed!  Next project, reorganizing the closet that suddenly has empty shelves!  I've already ordered a bookshelf that will now fit inside the closet, so he can keep his books and some toys in there, without the whole room being over crowded and messy looking.