Zaylee's New Big Girl Bed

In the past few weeks, Thomas has been trying to climb out of his crib. Thus far he hasn't yet succeeded, but he is able to get himself stuck up on the corner edge of the bed, where he hangs and cries until he decides I'm not coming to "save" him, then he'll plop back down in the crib and go to sleep. That's all very well and good, except that it isn't good at all - he's very close to being able to just toss himself right over the edge and fall on the floor. So we've decided that it's time to move him to the toddler bed.

Rather than buy a new toddler bed for Thomas, we thought we'd go ahead and get a twin bed for Zaylee and let Thomas use her toddler bed. We'd have to get a twin anyway sometime down the road, so we figured we might as well do it now. We actually got some incredible deals on this bed. Jeff had several text books he no longer needed, so he sold them online through Amazon.com. When the first three sold for just over $100, we put that toward getting a bed frame on Amazon.com, and only had to pay shipping. Total out of pocket so far: $35.

The bed will be delivered probably tomorrow. So we needed a mattress. Today we shopped around at three different furniture stores. The first was a cluttered little place, full of fun chairs and couches all over the place. Their cheapest twin mattress was $139. The next place we visited was huge and the way everything was displayed was absolutely beautiful. I never thought I would feel this way about a furniture store, but it was the type of place that I could just spend all day there chatting with the sales lady about cute kids and beds, and feel totally happy and relaxed the whole time. It was nice. Their cheapest twin size was a foam mattress for $99. We thought that was a definite maybe, but had one more place we wanted to check out first.

The third place was a relatively new little furniture and appliance store. They had new and used furniture. Their cheapest new twin size was also a foam mattress, and this one was for $89. I was almost sold, then they mentioned that they also had used mattresses. I immediately pressed for prices on those, and we found that the cute little used pink mattress with flowers was ... drum roll please ... $39.50. We had found our mattress! So we bought that right up, dropped the kids off with Janelle at Mom's house, borrowed the van, and took the mattress home then and there. Running total out of pocket so far: $75.

Later today we stopped by Wal-Mart to get twin size bedding. Two flat sheets, four fitted sheets, and a vinyl mattress protector later, our running total was brought up to approximately $105. That's all that we've spent out of pocket for the frame, the mattress, and the bedding. That and a few books. Not bad at all!

Zaylee was so excited about her new bed that, even though the frame hasn't come yet, we went ahead and moved her toddler bed out of the way to set up her mattress. So tonight she is sleeping on her new mattress on the floor, with pink sheets and a smile. When we set up her mattress, she kept bouncing and laying on it, saying over and over, "I like my bed! I like my bed!" It was too cute. Here's some pics of her being way excited about her new Big Girl Bed.




As for the whole moving thing - Jeff had his phone interview today and feels that it went really well. We'll know within this next week or so if he's been hired and what his position, hours, and starting date will be. I think the overall impression was that he pretty much has the job, they just have to figure out which department wants him the most. :-) I am still nervous and anxious about the whole thing, but have been trying to keep myself too distracted to be completely freaked out. I'm mostly concerned about finding a place to live, but am trying to mentally prepare myself for the move, and how we'll take care of things. I'm trying to put my trust in the Lord, and know that he will take care of us, and guide us in what we should do. But it's so much a step in the dark, and it's scary for me. I'll keep working on that.