Big Girl Beds… YIKES!!!

On Sunday, we went with Meemaw and Peepaw on our annual cemetery trip to visit our relatives. I know I know. I should go more, but it’s so hard to get there with the girls.. I’d just rather wait until someone could go with me. Anyway… So, we all got up at a decent hour, got ready, and came downstairs. Meemaw and Peepaw arrived a short time later, and we all had a big breakfast made by Daddy. Yum! 

We got everything together and headed out of the house around 1030am, and went off to the cemetery to clean up around the family’s graves, give them some fresh flowers, and remember. We made sure my Great Grandpa, and Grandpa each had their flags there representing they both of their service in the US Army. I remember as a child, my Grandpa would walk around with us, and tell us stories of each person we took flowers to. I only wish I would have taken a video camera, just once. I miss hearing his stories. Now my dad (Peepaw) is the one telling as many stories as he could remember to my daughters. 

Anywho.. after the cemetery, we got lunch and came back to our house. My parents wanted to get home, but we convinced them to stay… We turned on the Wii.. and it was all over.. Peepaw started bowling, and then I played him… Yeah. I lost. I called around on a whim and ended up finding the Wii Fit at Walmart by my house… Thank Goodness… I got the last one that they had too… Neener Neener.. LOL I ran out and got that, and as soon as I was home, I heard the girls were up and Wii-fishing. It was so cute.

Daddy started cooking dinner while I ran upstairs to start changing their bedroom over. Yes, we took the cribs apart and turned them into the toddler beds.  He met me upstairs to help put the hutch onto the dresser, and take apart and put the toddler guard rail on one of the bed. He came downstairs to finish dinner and Peepaw came up to help put the guard rail on the second bed. I vacuumed and dusted the whole room, and then made up the beds with their brand new Princess bedding. I had also purchased a couple of new princess nightgowns that matched their bedding… They were so excited to see those after their bath.  It was so cute. Before they went to bed, we made sure to call Meemaw and Peepaw upstairs so they could see the girls’ reaction to the big girl beds. I had already snuck into their room to video tape them from the moment they opened the door… I must say they were pretty happy! LOL… Of course I had to tell them not to jump on their beds…

We got them to calm down a little and climb in bed. We tucked them in and everyone kissed them nite nite. We then turned out the lights, closed the door, latched the gate at the top of the stairs and prayed they would stay in bed… Not to be. We heard the pitter patter of little feet running out of their room, and into ours. I think they got up about 4 times each, and finally fell asleep. They didn’t get up at all during the night. In fact, when they woke up the next morning, they stayed in their room and talked and played. We had to go in and get them! It was crazy! The next hurdle to jump was going to be nap time. They’re growing up too fast!

Here are some pictures of their room, and them all tucked in…