Father's Day Weekend - Part 1 (big girl room)

This has been a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG weekend for the Zooks. It started off on Friday - I took the day off to finish Natalie's big girl room, run errands and the constant obgyn appointment. The day was over before I knew BUT I was able to get Natalie's BIG girl room (from here on know as BGR) into somewhat decent shape. There is still some decorating to be done, but for the most part, it's complete. Her new room is the old guest room and we tried to use as much existing furniture as possible. She's going from a crib (which she has been very content with) to a Queen! size bed. ai-yi-yi........ (more on the progress later)

We left the dresser and chair but removed the nightstands and bought some bookcases from Ikea instead. The lamps were existing, as was some of the bedding. The biggest change of course, is the color which Natalie helped me with. Below are the "before" and "after" pictures.

Before pictures (I loved our guest room - it had alot of stuff from my grandmother)

After pictures - Natalie's new BIG GIRL ROOM

Crib to bed transition progress: I have been really nervous about it and she's been doing exactly what I thought she would. So far, there have been zero naps this weekend. Saturday night was her first time to actually sleep in her room. Matt put her to bed and she was so tired that she cuddled up to him and fell asleep almost instantly. Amazingly - she slept thru the night and slept in about 30 minutes longer than normal. Tonight was a different story. No nap today, but she did tire momma out! I was soooooooo frustrated and just have to remind myself that this is a BIG transition for her. She was so tired this afternoon because of not having a nap that she actually feel asleep eating dinner. It reminded me of when she was a baby.

Ok, so I decided to put her to bed about 30 minutes earlier because of this, but she had other plans. As soon as I put her down on her BG bed, she popped wide awake and stayed up for about 2 more hours. We did enjoy talking in bed and I finally left after 45 minutes or so (she was still awake) and it's been quiet now for the last 30 minutes. Praise God!! I'm hoping that she sleeps thru the night again cause momma needs her sleep for work tomorrow!