Three "Big Girl" Beds In Three Days!

Well the time has finally come for these three little lovelies to graduate from their little girl beds to...(gasp!) to three full twin beds. And as if that's not enough, they are Loft Beds!! We were at first going to opt for a triple bunk bed, but were afraid of Charity falling out of that thing, should she be at the top of it. And you know she would want to be the one up there. So, for the next best thing, we went with three Loft Beds instead.

At first, we thought there would be very little room, if any, in their bedroom with these things in there. They are big beds! Actually, they worked out very well! There is still enough floor space for them to play and move around in. Plus, they have a very cool place under these beds were they can play as well. I took some pictures, so expect some coming up here within the next few paragraphs!

To start out with, these beds were no small undertaking! The first bed took us a little over 5 hours to put together! And that was with both Amy and I doing it together! We started on Friday evening when I got home from work with Faith's bed. The dresser and cabinet that hold the bed off of the flour took what seemed like forever! There were no worded instructions, just diagrams. Friday night was a three hour trek. At this point, we were still able to keep the Toddler beds in the room and the girls were still able to sleep in their own beds. Saturday morning, we got ready for our last Soccer game for the spring season. After the game we celebrated with taking the girls to the Chocolate Shop, which is a little Diner in town with a 50's feel. The girls love it there! They have tons of ice cream flavors and the burgers and hot dogs are fabulous! Yeah, I kinda love it there myself too! Plus, the prices are fair. Perfect for an old fashioned Malt Shop.

After the Chocolate Shop, we took the girls over to Amy's parents house so we could finish work on Faith's bed and I could begin taking out the three Toddler beds. While taking the Toddler beds down, Amy and I both had our moments of losing it emotionally. These Toddler beds started out being their cribs when we brought them home 5 years ago. So it's understandable that we both had our moments of emotional distress while taking out the little beds in exchange for the "Big Girl" beds.

This pic is of Faith arranging her bed the way she wants it. She was ecstatic about her bed!

Charity and Hope arranging their beds too! They are also happy with their beds, can ya tell!?


After the length of time it took us to put Faith's bed together, it took us considerably less time to put the other two beds together! Three hours each! Believe me, this was a major success compared to the brutal 5 hours it took for Faith's bed. The most amazing thing was that all three of these beds fit in the same room together. We've been pretty lucky with that. I remember when I was putting their cribs together, I was wondering then how in the heck we were going to fit three of them in the same room. They fit pretty nicely. These beds were much bigger, so I was really wondering how we were going to pull these off. Once again, we got lucky and all three beds fit with room to spare! After all the hours of hard work put in on these beds, it was all worth it to see the smiles and excitement on all three girls faces once they were all done. Tonight is the first night they are sleeping in their new beds. For the first 30 minutes after putting them to bed, all they could do was talk amongst themselves about how great the beds were and that myself and Mommy did a great job putting them together and so quickly. Hearing them talk about it to each other was worth it alone. Watching them set their beds up tonight was a little more emotional for me. I guess it's all part of me coming to terms with them growing up. What I'm having a problem coming to terms with is how quickly it's happening. It's like I blinked and we went from feeding them bottles and changing diapers to "Big Girl" beds and Soccer practice. Tomorrow they'll be graduating and off to collage. And more tears will flow then too. Our baby girls are growing up and there's nothing we can do about it. Were does the time go? Till next time!