The Big Move Downstairs

The kids have been wanting to move downstairs for a while now.  And we've wanted them to too.  Bigger rooms with more space to play.  And toys farther removed from the main living area of the house.  But it took a lot longer to get the rooms ready than the kids expected.  There was a lot of work to be done first!  For example, every wall in Madeline's room looked like this:

 dents, dings, scratches, and scuffs!  Lots of patching work to be done.  And the green wall had to go:

 The closet was also useless as a big open space, so Todd built these awesome shelves!

 The green and off-white walls changed to pink and white.  Bright and clean!!  Then the rooms were finally ready.  The day of the big move came and the kids were SO EXCITED.  They spent the morning carrying toys from the upstairs closet to the downstairs one.  But after an hour or so, they could see this wasn't going to be done soon and decided to leave it up to us.  But after moving Madeline down, the computer room up and then Ethan down, we finally finished!!  Whew! 

Miss Madeline could not be happier!

 She lives in a perfect little girl room.  Pink and cutsie and full of her favorite things.

 Ethan's room was already ready for moving in, phew!  And what a great move it was for him!  His room size more than doubled!  Look at all that floor space!!!

 He even has room for his "reading tent". 

Man, they're living the high life now!  Todd laughed after the move saying how our master bedroom was the worst one in the house now. 

They've been down for a little over a week now and seem to really love it!  Their rooms seem cleaner than ever before too, because they are bigger so the same mess doesn't seem to cover the whole room like it used to.  I'm really happy they can have such nice rooms.  And I like having the computer room upstairs too.  It's a nice change that we all enjoy!