a new room for the big boy

Luke has always been downstairs with us. Ever since he was little and we were living in our old 3 bedroom house, he was literally steps from our bedroom. When we moved to where we are now, the master bedroom was downstairs as well as one extra room and then there are 3 bedrooms upstairs. Well, we just put Luke downstairs with us. And he was still literally STEPS away from our bedroom. But now, with baby boy number 2 coming sooner than later, we decided that both boys needed to be together........upstairs.

I was so nervous about this. I don't know. I guess I had all those silly mommy fears. What if someone comes in the middle of the night and takes him and we don't know because we didn't hear it?? Or what if there is a fire and neither one of us can get up to either boy fast enough?? Or what if he gets up in the middle of the night and falls all the way down the stairs and we don't hear him???? (which is so unreal right now because he is still in his crib....but don't worry, my mind still thought he would climb out of it and this would happen!) (and don't worry grandmas....we have gates!)

But, it was time. We needed to set up the nursery, and we didn't want to wait until Peanut got here and then move Luke up. Making him think he was being shipped up and out.......

soooo......we moved him. The weekend of Valentine's Day. and what do you know??????

The kid loves it.

He takes everyone on a tour of the whole house when they come over. This is "guke's" room, this is "baby's" room, and then this is "choo choo" room. Because, oh yeah, did I mention we were using our dining room as a play room so that we could all still be on one level of the house?? Yep, but not now! Luke's old room is now the play room. And I am loving being able to shut the door to it now and keeping the mess a secret.....well, until Luke shows everyone.

I thought I'd share some pictures of Luke's new room that is he oh so very proud of...and yes, he is showing me everything.....

These are his choo choo wall stickers......


"and if you follow me over here mom....."


These are his "car car" wall stickers in his book corner....




And of course he had to show me all his books....


Then he ran away and did a little jump off his very cool 2 stairs that lead down into his room....


And don't forget the airplane rocker....


Or the closet.....


Then, it was time to head down to the "choo choo" room....

ahhh....a nice room for all the toys!

So, he loves it. All of it. And that is great because it has made me feel better about him being up there. All alone. :(

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Of course now that he is using the potty (oh yes....he is doing it like a champ!) he only wants to use the UPSTAIRS potty.....which makes it very interesting for a big 7 month pregnant mama like me to haul it up 16 stairs and back down 16 stairs several, several, several times a day. But hey, it's worth it...the kid is using the potty! What's a few more braxton hicks contractions right?

Speaking of potty training. He is doing so well. He is even going in public now. I took him to the grocery the next day after he started, and before we had even put one grocery in the cart he said, "I PEE PEE I PEE PEE!!!!!!" So I literally took off through the store (isn't that a sight for the eyes! HA!) swerving in and out of aisles to get this kid to the potty. Of course I had no idea how I was going to get him to sit on those huge toilets, well, huge for his little bottom! But he marched right in there, sat down, and WENT! Oh my word, people probably thought I was crazy because I was just yelling and hooting and hollering because he did it, but he was beaming from ear to ear. Then after all was done, we pulled up his pants and the kid stuck his whole arm........whole arm......into the toilet. yep. Right down into the toilet water it went. That was fun.

After all was said and done, that little trip to the potty added about another 20-25 minutes or so to our grocery trip. But he did it. And he is continuing to do it. He is so proud of himself......and so are we.