Room Switch

This is old news to a lot of you, but we switched the kids' rooms around a few months ago. I promised pictures awhile back, so here you go.

We put all the girls in the room that Paul and Lydia formally shared. Since we have an aversion to bunk beds after Joel broke his leg when he fell off the bunk bed ladder, we had to do some figuring to get three beds into that room. We ended up taking the closet doors off of the closet and scooting Gracie's bed into the little enclosure. We also repainted the walls, which were a VERY sunny yellow. We changed the color to a more subtle yellow.
The room that was formerly shared by Elizabeth and Grace is now the girls' dressing room. They each have a dresser in that room and Elizabeth and Grace both have their hope chests in there. This is also the bedroom that has the small bathroom off of it, so it works well when the girls shower and get dressed for the day (if only that process were a little quicker). The girls also sew, craft and study in that room. Lydia mostly just makes messes there, as she does her third of the bedroom, which is a constant source of frustration for her two older sisters, but what are little sisters for anyway?

We moved the three boys to the other end of the house into the bedroom next to the master. Paul has his bed, Joel has a toddler bed, and Jude has a crib. This arrangement seems to be working quite well except that Joel and Jude aren't exactly neat and tidy, which is a constant source of frustration for Paul, but what are little brothers for anyway?
I also reframed all the kids' name plaques. Each child has a frame with his or her name, the name's meaning and an applicable Bible verse. These plaques hang above each child's bed. I finally made Jude's name plaque-fourteen months after his birth--better late than never. Here's a close up of Joel's name plaque: