The Time Has Come

I guess the time had to come eventually but when it actually got here I guess it made me realized how fast time goes by. This week we made a few changes in our house with Bree. She is now in a booster seat in the car. We no longer have car seats. We also got Bree a full size bed and the crib is gone. We really have no baby or toddler stuff in the house anymore. Sippy cups are pretty much a thing of the past. Only big girl cups or cups with straws around here. We only dig out a sippy cup when all others are dirty.

Bree is beyond excited to get to sit in her new seat. When we go to the car she says " Mom, I get to ride in my big girl seat." She ask every time almost as if she thinks it is going to stop sometime soon. She loves that she can unbuckle herself, she can't quite buckle herself but she tries awfully hard.

On Saturday we went and picked up a full size bed for Bree. She was getting so long that she just didn't have much room left in her toddler bed. I guess it was time to let her move on up. After we picked up the mattress and unloaded it at home we went to Wal-mart and let her pick out her bedding. When we walked down the isle I knew what she was going to pick.

Do you????

Yep, you guessed it Dora..........big shocker I know. :) Well, I may have lied earlier, we have one baby thing left. Her birdies, they had to stay with the bed. Chris and I joke that she will be the only girl in college that still has her birdies to play music to her while she goes to sleep. She just isn't giving those up yet.

Even though I wanted to stay away from getting character bedding Daddy talked me in to letting her get what she wanted. I think Daddy wanted her to get it because it made him feel like she wasn't growing up quite so fast. Bree was thrilled and couldn't wait to sleep in her new bed that night. It's funny how she looked so big in her toddler bed but now looks so little in her big bed.

I know this post is mainly about the changes with Bree but I had to show a pic of Katie's Room. A while back she said she wanted new bedding for her room. She was done with the princesses. She said she wanted a big girls room (they just need to stop growing). I told her she could earn money to change her room if she wanted to do that. So we started a chart and she would do chores. She would make her bed, clean her room, pick up toys and put away her laundry. For every chore she got a sticker. When she filled up her chart she had earned her part of the money. When we let Bree pick our her bedding, Katie got to pick out hers as well. Katie definitely picked a big girls room. Hot pink bedding with zebra print sheets that by the way make me a little dizzy when I make her bed. :)

She asked if we can paint her walls pink with black stripes. I laughed and told her she must think her momma is a designer. I told her we can do pink walls but no black. We will add the black to the room in some other way. Both the girls rooms are going to be painted, so I will post more pics of the final room once we paint.

We had lots of changes this past week. It made my heart is a little sad that the time that everyone said would go by so fast seems to have gone by so fast. Don't get me wrong, I do truly love the stage that the girls are in now. They are playful little girls with lots of life and great imaginations, but it is hard to see the baby days gone.