Big changes

My dad and Jav spent the 4th of July putting them together (at my dad's suggestion).  This all seemed like a good idea at the time.  It would free up our weekend a little more.

We had been going back and forth about whether or not to let Joel start sleeping in the bottom bunk, straight from the crib, or to let him sleep in Gabriel's old bed for awhile.  He's still really loud when he wakes up at night and has a tendency to wake up earlier than Gabriel.  We decided on Gabriel's old bed because with Gabriel about to start Kinder right around the corner (August 13!!!!!!!), I want him to have some good night's sleep under his belt.  The problem with this arrangement is that the bunk beds are going in Joel's current room, so that means not only would Joel be sleeping in a new bed for the first time, he would be in a different room also.  And on the first night all of this was to take place, there were fireworks popping all around us until late into the night.  How many things could we possibly throw into the mix to make sure he didn't sleep?  Sheesh.

Here is the finished product, with a very happy customer up top.  I thought he might not like it once he got up there, but I was wrong.  But Joel was very restless and had trouble sleeping.  Jav finally went in and slept with him in the bed that first night.

But things have settled down and now Joel loves his new bed.  I mean LOVES.  He can't wait to go to bed at night.  He was waking up early with the early sunrise (he has West Texas hillbilly in his blood), so we got some Eclipse blackout curtains from Target and he's now sleeping until 8 on weekends and I have to wake him up most weekday mornings.  Woohoo!!!

He's not smiling in these pics, but it's because the moment he gets in bed he gets really sleepy.  What happened to my baby boys?  They're so big!