Sharing Space

Last week we did something I thought we'd never do with a 5 bedroom house.  We moved the boys into a room together.   With a 5 year age difference and plenty of space, I never anticipated a reason to put them together.

I also never anticipated that Max would sleep in my room for five years!  Yes, you read that right.  He's been sleeping in my room on the floor for the last 5 years.  When he was a year old he figured out how to climb out of the crib, so we moved him to a fun firetruck toddler bed.  He liked having the bed in his room.  He played on it sometimes but he never slept a whole night in it.  He always ended up in our room on the floor next to our bed.   Eventually Derek made him a big boy loft bed in hopes that might entice him to sleep in his own room.  But, it didn't.

Sometime this summer, Nate decided he didn't like sleeping in his loft bed downstairs so he took over Max's and has been sleeping there for a few months.  Last week Derek & I decided that since Max doesn't like to be alone maybe we just put another bed under his loft and have him share a room with Nate.  

It has worked out wonderfully.  Nate has always been our earliest to go to bed and basically puts himself to bed around 9:30.  Now Max is going to bed with him and sleeping in his bed all night!    As an added bonus, sometimes during the day, we find them in the room together playing with their iPods!  

It's only been a week, but its been a great week of brotherly bonding!  Hopefully they'll enjoy being together for at least a few more months, and when they need their own space, I'm glad we've got the room.  It makes a Mama's heart happy.