Living on the Edge

When we moved in, we were thrilled that the girls had their own rooms, and would therefore, hopefully not disturb each others' sleep. Now I'm not saying that every night has been as we would have hoped - they are kids afterall, meaning they are totally unpredictable in every way - but things have been good and comfortable. Time to switch things up a bit! Why? Well, for one, a couple of nights of Cooper staying up until 2 typing papers on the computer, which happens to be in our bedroom. Very near the bed. Where I was "sleeping." That and, we'd always planned on putting the girls together eventually. Someday. Probably when they were both in big girl beds. But let's face it, my art supplies (along with all the sewing and craft stuff that my parents have cleared out of their house and left in our garage) are taking over the house and really need a home, a room to call their own. And as a bonus, now I don't have to feel bad that Jenelle had such a cute, matching, fun room, while Meri's seemed to collect all the mismatched furniture, and be our storage unit to boot. Now they have a fun, mismatched room to share!
I think we now have every color of wood in one room! And stuffed animals filling up every empty space, and the dress-ups taking up the entire space under the crib.
Although in real life, the walls are blue, not aqua. Weird camera. We also took out all the toys and replaced them with books - in the hopes that if Jenelle can't sleep she'll just read silently to herself. Ha, do you love how naive we are sometimes? Gotta try though, right?
So in an effort to make the transition as smooth as possible, we tired them out on a bike ride, and then tried to wind down with calm, story reading time. So far, pretty good. After we put them to bed, they laughed their heads off for nearly an hour. We finally went in there and, as expected, they were both in the crib. What I hadn't expected was Jenelle to have brought her bed, basically only minus the mattress, into the crib with them. They were even both lying down. Cute! Jenelle had just got tired of their game of Meri stealing her binky. I'm wondering though, did Jell really think she was going to sleep in there? Is that what she thought we meant when we kept talking about how they were going to sleep together in the same room now? Anyway, it's been a few hours and they are actually sleeping. So we'll keep our fingers crossed. I actually never shared a room growing up, and I can't imagine Cooper did, but I've always thought it was probably fun. It's probably a grass is always greener thing. Regardless, if you have any advice about how to make this work best, please share!