Splittin' Up the Destruction Team

Every night is a struggle to get the boys to bed. The girls have the same problem, but since they're old enough to deal with being exhausted, we let them get on with it. Oh, and they don't bug us while they're staying up too late. That's also a big part of us leaving them alone.

The boys, however, run in and out of their room, fight, and keep each other awake. Not to mention bugging Doug and I incessantly and occasionally waking their little sister. Collin swears that Jack is keeping him awake. Jack swears that Collin is constantly coming over to his bed and hurting him. Probably a lot of both, if you ask me. Oh, you didn't?

Anyway, I finally decided to let them have their own rooms. We do have enough rooms. Sophia was relegated downstairs, because she also goes to bed with a minimum of fuss. The least amount of all the kids. Probably has something to do with the cage, ahem, crib.

Moving day!

The mayhem in what is to be Sophia's room. This was the room that looked the worst.

Here is the moving crew. Both were very motivated to move everything as quickly as possible. They spent yesterday separating toys into Collin's and Jack's. They also put everything that Jack owned next to the door. This morning they started asking if they could move stuff immediately after they woke up.

Sophia's old room...

Is now Jack's new room.

Including the house at the bottom of the fish bowl. It's too much trouble to break up for me to move it anytime soon.

Collin gets to stay in the boys' old room. He's very happy with his own space.

It is a little bare...

And Sophia is downstairs in the boys' old, old room. She didn't even have trouble taking a nap in there today. Hopefully she likes it there...and doesn't wake up very much. Going up and down stairs in the middle of the night is not fun for me.

It didn't take long for Sophie to realize that all the stuffed animals are in that locked trunk. Oh, and sorry about the naked baby on the trunk...Sophie doesn't believe that her dollies need clothes. She industriously takes any and all clothing off her dolls. Perhaps she is wishing that she were allowed to go around in her birthday suit?

At any rate, the rooms all look a little design-less. Thrown together. Functional but certainly not fashionable. I'll have to work on that.

And I'll also let you know how the destruction team (Collin and Jack, in case you haven't worked that one out) functions now that they are split up. Hopefully the split totally ruins their game. Hey, a mom can hope!