Long Weekend

Shar graduated on Thur. We were able to spend that day together pretty much, and then he was given fri-mon off and told to report Tues. because of the holiday. It has been so nice to have 4 WHOLE days off! I think we are both well deserving of it though. We spent one day in town running errands. And one day we moved Marcelus into our blank room cause Kira moved out, so now he is in there, and his room is adorable, there's just a couple more things I want to get for his room. We bought him his very own dresser. It is much bigger than the crib dresser he has been using. With all of Marcelus' toys and play tent and bed and dresser and everything in his own room, the other room has plenty of space in it for Phoenix. There is a lot more room in the closets, and I now have to just fill Phoenix room with a couple of things I want, like a glider and a baby swing. and little stuff like a hamper and a toy box.
The best part of putting the boys in their own rooms, or moving Marcelus over early was that I got to go through all of Marcelus' old clothes and put Newborn clothes in the crib dresser to be ready for Phoenix, I know I have plenty of time but it was just exciting, and gave me that "organization high" that I crave all the time. So his drawers are all ready for him, there are a few things we need to buy but I have 4 months so we're going to do it gradually.
It will be great to have the boys in their own rooms! They are somewhat small rooms I guess, every new house is like that now. But, they'll each have plenty of room!

We are also working right now on getting Marce to go to bed better. He always comes out over and over when I put him in there so I've been sitting with him til he falls asleep, but he is old enough that he needs to learn to go to bed on his own after being tucked in. With another kid coming, I need him to do his part. The last 2 nights we've been working on a new routine in his new room. And, the last two nights we've had to shut his door and he lays on his bed and cries himself to sleep. After he's asleep I open the door because yeah,...he gets up in the middle of the night, almost every night. That's a whole other issue I'm not really going to worry about right now. If I can get him to go down in the first place on his own, then we'll worry about in the night. Hoping to have him be a much improved sleeper by the time Phoenix comes because who knows how good/bad a sleeper he will be! Any advice is welcome...I think it's just a matter of time though...a few nights of having the door shut and he'll prob. stop coming out...