The Big Girl(s) Bed

Some of you might know that last month Isabel fell and injured herself.  She fell and hit her front teeth on the metal frame of her toddler bed, there was a lot of blood, and crying (mostly by me), a trip to a pediatric dentist, her first x-rays, and in the end NOTHING needed to be done.  So it looks like she lost a tooth, but it is actually just pushed back into her gums.  The dentist says there is nothing to do but wait and it should come back down on its own.

In response to this little mishap, I removed the toddler beds from their rooms immediately!  After a couple of weeks of toddler mattresses on the floor with no coordinating bedding, no paint on the walls, and only a dress in the room, I decided it was time to give the girls an honest to goodness little girls room.  I asked them what color they wanted in their room and Lexi said, I want blue walls; wait, I want DARK blue walls and LIGHT blue on the bed, with diamonds.  Izzy said, I want yellow on the walls, and pink and green on my bed.  It was difficult to explain to them that they would only have one bed to share, but they eventually got it.  I did some research and decided on a "scheme".  Last weekend I moved everything out of the room, headed over to Sherwin Williams, and got to work.  I am about 90% finished and the girls are back in their room LOVING their big girls' room!  I am not going to lie, it was a little emotional for me the first night I put them to bed in their "big girl bed", and when I took a look around and realized that for the first time in 3.5 years there were no cribs in their room.

I didn't expect to get emotional about something that seems so normal, but alas I did.  I sat there thinking, as I am sure thousands of mothers before me have too, that they will never need cribs again.  They will never be that small again.  Flashes of pride for the little girls they have become, and pings of sadness as I realize time has gone by so quickly and we will never go back there again.  I just want to be able to bottle a small piece of who they are at each of these stages in their lives so I can revisit them when I miss those days.  I am thankful for digital photography, and modern technology that I can capture tiny moments like these it makes it somewhat easier.

They are still growing like weeds, over 42 inches already and both are just under 37 lbs.  It will soon be time to transition them from the convertible car seats to the full back booster.  They begin preschool two days a week in May and LOVE to sing.  Where is the pause button on life?