Rest at last!

Larry and I are so thankful and excited to have moved into our new bedroom last weekend! I have been waiting to post new pics because I am still recovering from the allergy attack that was brought on by all the dust, and from the pure exhaustion of the last two months!:) I am super excited to reveal how our playroom went from looking like this:

To looking like this....

To now looking like this...

Aaaahhh...Peace at last. Our nice, serene get away. We are enjoying it. The doll on the bed is a Chinese rag doll that a fellow adoptive mom was making and selling to fund their second adoption from China. I bought it last summer when we started our home study process and can hardly wait to give it to Little Sister on Gotcha Day! We keep her on our bed to serve as a prayer reminder everyday leading up to us being together!!

Now on to some silly stories about our first few nights in our new room..

The above picture shows what our blue playroom wall looked like before Larry ripped it out to create pocket doors into our laundry/work room.

Now the wall looks like this...

These pocket doors are wonderful. I can do my laundry, sort, organize, craft, fix stuff, all on the other side of this wall. Unfortunately, we have not purchased or put on the locking handles yet...or built the wall that closes off the "cat room" from this room. SO, the first night in our room the cats opened the pocket doors with ease and continually terrorized us as we tried to sleep.

Larry is a problem solver!

He nailed up a temporary piece of dry wall to help keep the kitties out. But it was only a half piece of drywall, and he underestimated the mad skillz of our precious little kitties. They scaled the wall with ease on night two, and continued to terrorize us.

NIGHT THREE...Larry is smarter still!

He nailed up yet another piece of drywall so the cats could not get in the pocket door. Alas, he underestimated still how determined our little kitties are to sleep with us in the night. On night three, the precious fur balls OPENED OUR BEDROOM DOOR. Our door has a door knob people. The cats managed to turn the doorknob and bust in. 

Now, this would not be a problem if they simply wanted to sleep with us, but they want to wrestle and skid across the floor, and claw the underside of our bed at 4am. No, no. Out you go. I locked the door. That will keep them out. Meanwhile our children have been sleeping better than ever! Olivia is so excited about her new room she wants to go to bed early and they both have been getting up late! "Well, Bless Pat!" as my mom would say...whatever that means.;)

Larry to the rescue again!

Larry realized that part of our door frame was not completely attached, since the "hallway" outside of our bedroom is part of the project that is not complete. That is why the kittens were able to magically open the door. Since that was fixed, we've been sleeping like a baby! 

Olivia on the other hand....

The next morning she woke up saying she felt like she had only slept a minute. Daisy had been meowing and clawing at her door!! Back to the drawing board!

Happy, Happy 7th Birthday to my amazing ball of energy! You are like a spinning top of beauty and creativity and talent. You are thoughtful, kind and oh so generous. I love the way you laugh at everything and how you are learning to be such a big girl. I cannot wait to see what an awesome big sister you are going to be!! Oh, and you can really use those chopsticks! You go girl! ;)