Transitioning

The kids have transitioned to our move really well. We have driven by the old house a few times (it's close to the kids' school) and whenever we do Lindsey cries out and starts saying she doesn't want to move back and doesn't want to go by the old house. I think it's pretty funny. I tell her we can't move back because we don't own it anymore, but she still cries. The grass at our old house was super tall for a while and the new buyers took forever to move in. Finally, they cut the lawn, but a neighbor, Madeleine, who still lives there told me she was thinking "it never looked like that when Heidi and Kyle lived there." haha. 

I'm driving the kids back and forth to their old school because they only have 6 weeks left so it was worth it instead of transferring them to a new school. It's a pain though to drive back and forth because I have to go 3 times each day. We leave here around 8:30am, then I go back at 11:30 to get Preston then back again at 3:30 to get Kate. On half days I have to go at 8:30, 10:30 and 12:45. It takes about 10 minutes in the morning to get over there and about 15 minutes in the afternoon. We will miss that school. We have loved our teachers and the principal is fabulous. The principal is Cheryl Boze and she came up to me at a school activity telling me she was mad at our family for moving away. She told me she will miss our kids and our family. I thought that was very nice of her to say that. 

We moved Chelsea into a big bed after coming back from Mother's Day Weekend. She transitioned fine. She was crawling out of her crib A LOT anyway. We actually noticed she got out less from her big girl bed. 

Lindsey loves her bed, but didn't want her room purple. She wanted us to paint it rainbow colors so she was pretty upset when we painted it purple like in the old house. She doesn't understand purple is much more practical since we are keeping the same bedding. :) She likes the new house and doesn't want to move back to the old house. 

We painted Preston's room the same blue as the old house since he likes blue and kept the same bedding. We painted 2 walls blue and 2 walls the same beige color as downstairs. He loves his room and the new house. He had no problem moving and tells me he likes this house and doesn't want to move again. He says it's much better because it's much bigger. I love that he has done well with the move and likes it. 

Kate's favorite thing about the new house...her own room! She is loving it. I've already threatened her that she will have to share rooms if she's going to have an attitude (she was acting up one day). I'm sure that threat will be used more as she gets older. haha. My parent's got a new queen bed for a room at their house so we got the old queen bed. It worked out great. Since she got a queen bed I need to buy new bedding for it. She wants an aqua room.

This is the bonus room before we unpacked all the toys and organized it. Deciding on how to organize toys was overwhelming to me!

The bonus room after organizing the toys. 

I found some 9 cube closet maid organizers on clearance at Target and bought their bins to fit in it. I wish they had labels or tags so you could tell what was in each bin. I might have to come up with something like velcro tags. But it's sooo nice having a play room where all the toys can go in. The kids still drag toys out of it, but at least they can play with toys while Chelsea is napping because before the toys would be in the bedroom and Lindsey couldn't play with them.