Aden's Bedroom

Since Richard is apparently too busy watching Spectacular Spiderman to talk about this with me, I'm blogging. Yes, Spectacular Spiderman is apparently much too important (even though I'VE even see this one before) to listen to what I have to say.

I'm on this new thing where I'm going to try (operative word here being "try") to clean something every day that I'm not working. Today, I tidied the living room -- something that needed desperately to happen. Tomorrow ... well, I won't be doing anything as we'll be out all day ... and Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday are all work days ... so uh ... on WEDNESDAY, I'll probably tackle the bathroom or something.

Aaaaaanyway ... rambling on, here. I plan on eventually getting Aden's room in a state that makes it possible to get a big boy bed. As of right now, his room is a war zone. There's his crib, his dresser, and his ball pit (the huge waste of space his dear Grandma got him for his birthday) ... and a bunch of other crap. There are boxes stacked up at the end of his bed, sheets on the floor that either have to be washed or put away, snow suits that have to go in the closet, and random other odds and ends ... just all in the way.

First, I'm going to wash the sheets that need to be washed, and put away the ones that are already clean. The snow suits will be put in the upstairs closet, since that is obviously the best place for them. The ball pit and balls will be staying put, because there is NO way it's coming upstairs and taking up more space than Aden's toys already need to be taking up. The box of books can stay put, because it's on top of a bin where he can reach them ... and it's too heavy to be of danger. The other boxes stacked at the end of his bed are a real challenge. I need to find a home for them, or a home for all of the things inside them. I can probably fit a few in his closet, and find a suitable home for the others -- there aren't a whole ton of them that would make the job impossible. THEN, I have to get something to anchor his dresser to the wall. We have anchor things at my work that are just like the ones you get sometimes with dressers -- we had one from either my dresser or Aden's dresser, and we just threw it out. We shouldn't have, because turns out Aden's dresser is easily toppleable. He pulls out the bottom three drawers (because he can't reach the first one), and the thing just wobbles. Yeah ... not exactly the kind of thing I want happening when he can easily get in and out of his own bed!

When all of that is said and done, we'll be (hopefully) getting Aden a big boy bed! He is 19 months now, and I think he's almost ready for one. While he still does have a tendency to get around in his sleep, he is pretty good at staying on his pillow at night and keeping his blanket on too -- he thinks it's really fun to lay on his pillow and pull his blanket up. So I think, provided there are no dangers to him being in his room alone, that he could do quite well with a big boy bed. As long as none of those boxes are there to topple over, and his dresser can't be pulled down, it's all good.

Hopefully I don't lose motivation. I don't want to have to wait until we get a 3-bedroom place with more storage -- at this rate, that could be forever -- in order for him to get to grow up.