Roommates

Oliver and Soren are officially roommates.  I hope they like sharing a room because they're pretty much stuck in the same jail cell-size bedroom for the next decade!

We've been talking about moving Soren into Oliver's room ever since we started the adoption process so we could turn Soren's room into the new sibling's bedroom.  We bought a bunk bed ahead of the transition, but never actually followed through and Oliver ended up sleeping on the bottom bunk while the promises/threats of Soren moving in never materialized.  It was too easy to keep them in separate rooms where we didn't have to worry about one waking up the other or trying to coordinate bedtimes.  The few times the boys had begged for a "sleepover," no sleeping actually happened and we sent Soren back to his room for the rest of the night.  We were finally in a good place with the kids and sleep and we were hesitant to mess up our progress.  

The looming start to our house renovation finally pushed us to make the transition to the boys sharing a room.  The contractors are going to end up punching a hole through the wall of Soren's room, so he (and all his stuff) needed to be out of there.  Chris took the kids up to the cabin one weekend and my mother-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law helped me move furniture, box up outgrown clothes, toys and books a future child will hopefully use some day, and find space for Soren's things in what is already a tiny bedroom.

While I was sentimental about Soren leaving his "baby room," he thankfully didn't seem to miss it.  On their first night home from the cabin, he seemed perfectly happy with his new digs.  We went about our usual bedtime routine read them books on the floor of their new shared room, then tucked Oliver into his top bunk and Soren into the bottom bunk and turned out the lights.  The room was silent.

If only it had been as easy as that!  Not long after lights out, I heard the pitter-patter of feet.  Two-plus hours and about 37 trips upstairs later, both kids were finally asleep.  The next night it only took a little over an hour for them to fall asleep and bedtime has generally gotten better with each night.