Bunk Beds!

It was about time. These girls were desiring a space of their own in our home. And mom and dad were desiring a bedroom of their own:) Until now we've had a twin bed in their room with a crib size mattress pushed underneath it during the day as our 'trundle bed'. Anna and Josie traded each week, or more often, who slept where. Now the trundle bed belongs to Ruthie and both the older girls have a bed of their very own. Anna, especially, has been wanting a place of her own, out of reach of her youngest sister, where she can do her 'setups' and not have them disturbed. Hopefully this will give her that space. The only problem is that the ladders are permanently attached. We'll have to work on that one with Ruthie.

Last night, before going to sleep, Anna kept telling us "tomorrow morning, first thing, I'm going to wake up and look out the windows! That's what I'm going to do!" And Josie would say in reply: "Tomorrow morning, when I wake up, the first thing I'm going to do is swing on my monkey bars!" (The mattresses are sitting on metal slats- her monkey bars.)
Thank you, Michelle, for loaning me a spacious vehicle, and Ruth, for watching the girls, so I could go pick up these bunk beds. I wish you all could have seen the energy in this house when I walked in the door bringing the bunk beds home. All the girls literally started bouncing off the walls, laughing and screaming in excitement. Quite a fun site! You can't tell it by the look on Josie's face in this picture (she's making a silly face for the camera) but she was just as excited as Anna was. When the camera wasn't pointed at her she had a grin on her face just as big as Anna's.