Weekend Wrap Up

So this weekend we decided it was time to get serious about the beanette's room. All the furniture has been set up, but we still hadn't moved out Steve's HUGE bookcase and we needed to get it done. So, Saturday we packed up all the books and moved the bookcase. Once we moved it down to it's new home in the craft/office/guestroom, we thought why stop here? Let's keep it going. So we replaced her ceiling fan from an old globe fan (with 2 bulbs) to a new 4 bulb fan. It makes the room so much brighter! We also started to realize that a crib, dresser, changing table and glider were not going to fit into the room. (It's smaller than Mason's room) so we decided to move her dresser into the closet- but oh course, a problem arose- the dresser was 1 INCH TOO big for the closet! ARRRGGH! However, being the smart parents we are, we bought the same color furniture for Mason and lil' sis so that they could switch out if they ever wanted to. So we switched Mason's dresser with beanette's dresser and VOILA problem solved. Now her room is much more roomy and Mason ended up with a better dresser!

Through this all Mason has been such a trooper. Over a month ago, we removed his changing table- no problem, yesterday we moved the glider out of his room, again no biggie. However, last night we switched dressers and while his room was dresserless- he screamed bloody murder. We were both so surprised he was attached to the dresser- so we quickly finished the switch and showed him his new big boy room- he was a little better but still all night pretty cranky. I kept noticing too that he was shaking his left hand. Well, it turns out that while his room was dresserless, his lamp (which uses an old 3 way light bulb) was on the ground- he turned it on and burnt his poor little hand. I was so upset that 1) he burnt his little finger, 2) that it took me like 3 hours to figure it out, and 3)I couldn't make it better. We have been applying Aloe and it seems to be helping- today he was much better.

So that was our Saturday- after so much time working on beanette's room- we decided Sunday was Mason's Day! We took him to the mall play area to let him run free and play with mom and dad. He had such a great time and it is amazing to see how daring he is getting. He has no problem climbing the big boats, or running with the big boys. I remember the first time we brought him there, all he would do was run around and look at the toy structures- now he is unstoppable on them! We also went to do some research on double strollers- we are pretty sure we want a double jogger, so we started researching today.I think we have it narrowed down, we just have to see if our top choice will fit the infant car seat.

It doesn't feel like Sunday, probably because I have Jury Duty tomorrow so Steve is taking the day to play Mr. Mom. I'll let you know how jury duty goes and once the room looks a little better I'll take pictures to post!