The Girls' Room

    People have asked to see the rooms in our apartment, so over the next weeks, I'll take you on a little tour.  =)  This is the girls' room.  A few people here have made comments about our horrible color choice and how it's way too bright.  But I really like it.  It's so cheerful... and when it's dark and cold, it's so nice to have a "sunny room"!  When we originally had this bunk bed made, we had planned on the area at the bottom to be for toys/playing (and even had cabinet doors on it to open and close).  But Ella is too little to be on the middle level, so right now it's a triple-bunk bed.  As the girls grow, it'll be two beds again with room underneath for them to play.  It's also nice because in a pinch I can lay Ike to sleep on the bottom bed, and he doesn't have far to fall if he rolls.

     I didn't choose the most organized moment to take this picture.  But realistically, it is never really "organized"!  The tree is a bunch of stickers.  I found it online and was so excited, as I knew it would help to beautify the wall space without having to drill massive holes into the cement.

     ... And there are flower stickers in this little nook between the window and the wardrobe.   The kitchen set and the doll house both came in our suitcases from America (2 different trips),  with clothes tucked all around.   The girls play with them all the time, and we don't regret bringing them (although at the time we wondered if we were crazy!)

 

     Here's the view from the other end of the room.  We inherited the dressers from the Wickers, and Leif's mom (Irene) painted them pink for us.  The handles are ribbons.  On the wall is a big board that I made with pictures of family and friends and the kids.   On the left side is a big mirror on the wardrobe.  We wanted to arrange the room differently, but it's the only place it'll fit without blocking a window or covering pipes and sticking way out into the room.  In the aparments here, the pipes are all showing in the room.

     There's a little curtain that we can pull for the bottom bunk of the bed.  Here is a fuzzy picture of Ella, in her cut-up jammies.  Anneka did a craft project in their room yesterday and left the scissors on top of the dresser.  After bedtime (when we thought she was sleeping), Ella found the scissors and cut her pants and shirt to shreds.  She was very quiet about it, and thankfully she didn't cut herself!  Another night, hours after she should have been asleep, she let the hamster out of the cage.  In the daytime, I'm pretty aware of where Ella is and what she's doing.  Now I know that my radar needs to be up after bedtime, too!!

    
And this is often what the floor looks like in the room...  covered in toys.  I love how the sun shines in.  I'm so thankful to have this nice big room for the kids to play in and for when we have guests.  It really is a blessing!