Charles*Tiara*Holden*Hayes: Busy Bee's

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for us. First, we received Holden's big boy furniture for his room, so that we could use the baby furniture for Hayes. This seemed to get the ball rolling on my "nesting" kicking in. We had ordered Hayes' bedding a few weeks back (pics to come once everything is all together in the nursery) but it really didn't dawn on me then that we had a TON of work to do before we could even start getting Hayes' room ready.

So, fortunately, I was on a work trip to Boston when Holden's new bedroom furniture was delivered. It just so happened that Chuck happened to have a day off that week, so he and a friend planned on moving all of our guest bedroom furniture into the garage, moved all the boxes that I had previously packed, up into the attic for storage and moved our treadmill into the office. Because I was out of town and hadn't washed the big boy bedding that I bought for Holden, Daddy decided it was probably best to leave Holden in his toddler bed until I got home versus trying to get him to go to bed, while his toddler bed was relocated to baby brother's room. So I came home to having to wash bedding, help Daddy build Holden's bunk beds and get him re-adjusted to sleeping in his new, cool, big boy bed.

Did I mentioned that Holden would need to "adjust" to his big boy bed????

I don't know about you, but it doesn't look like he needed to "adjust." With the exception of us having to rig something to keep him from climbing from the lower bunk to the stairs of the bed, which is NOT how it was intended to be done, he has done awesome. We installed the toddler railing just to be sure he doesn't fall out until he is comfortable with the new bed too. And he does climb the stairs, but has not tried to get on the second bunk and we still have it blocked so he can't get to it anyway. I haven't taken any pics of the new set up yet, as it is still a work in progress. We still need to hang is new valance, mount the TV on the wall and move around his toys/toy box once we get everything situated. But we no longer have any of the nursery furniture in the room, the glider is out and things are coming along.

This past weekend I cleaned Hayes' room, painted the accent wall behind his crib and placed the furniture where I want it. I also had a friend come over and we played "amateur photographers" for the afternoon. Much to our surprise the maternity photos turned out awesome and I am very happy with them. I'll post those in a few weeks after the baby shower, gotta keep some things a surprise.

Despite all the work going on inside the house, we have found a little time to enjoy the beautiful weather that we have been having here and there. Daddy put Holden's baseball tee together a few weeks ago, and not that I'm bragging, but I think we have an All-Star/Pro baseball player on our hands. He's pretty good for a 2 year old. Makes contact with the ball every time and hits it hard too. Daddy is also very proud of the fact that Holden, although does everything right-handed, picked up the bat and has been hitting left-handed.