Room Rearrange

Just last week, Aria moved from her baby dresser to her "big girl dresser." The only difference (besides size) is the baby dresser has a built in changing table on top, and Aria has out grown it. It is a wonderful dresser that was given to us by friends who are now missionaries in Africa, and I will most certainly pull it out again when we have another baby, but for right now, Aria needed more space.


However, due to the size difference in the two dressers, this switch also required for us to rearrange her room. The old room arrangement really was for the infant stage; the furniture groupings were designed to make feed, changing and bedding easier and didn't give her much room to play. The new layout is much more conductive to playing and running around. It has grown into a toddler's room.

I can't believe how fast all this is happening. I can still remember like yesterday the feeling of bringing her home from the hospital, trying desperately to rock her to sleep after hours of crying, (thank you, acid reflux for those memories) and cheering over her first intentional smile. I can't believe we're in the toddler stage now.

She's really growing into a little girl now, which is what inspired the room revamp. She needed more space to play, and the living room just could not contain all her toys any more. Now, she has three distinct play areas in her room for books and reading, (her favorite) dollies and noisemakers (there are very few toys in our house that don't fall into one of these three categories!) By the end of the day, all 3 kinds of toys are inevitably in one heaping pile in the middle of the room, but the fact that they all have a place to go makes me feel more organized, if nothing else.

Next thing I know, we'll be moving her out of her crib, and into her "big girl bed." but until then, I will enjoy tucking her into bed in her baby crib... enjoying each day as it comes.