Cunning

For various childcare reasons, I worked from home today.  What I spied today:  I put Emma down for a nap in her big girl bed (a twin mattress on the floor, as recommended by our doctor, who thinks toddler beds are unnecessary and just another extra piece of furniture).  I went to the living room to do some work, and then hear some racket from Emma's bedroom.  I get up to peer down the hallway and see Emma framed in the doorway, carrying a bucket of wooden blocks.  She sees me, and I say "What are you doing, Emma?  You should be taking a nap."   She immediately drops the bucket and disappears from the doorway.   I hear some pitter patter of feet.   I walk into her room, and there she is on her bed, pretending to be asleep, sucking her thumb.  I stood over her bed for a little while, and she opened just one eye, saw me there, and then closed it quickly.  She obviously dropped her toys, jumped into bed, and thought she could trick me into thinking that she had been there the whole time, and not playing with toys during naptime.  Hilarious, but also distubring in her early display of cunning!  This is just the beginning of it all...

Our Weekend Project

Here's the result of our weekend project:

Before:

After:

I am pleased with the way it came out.  I took  inspiration from a Land of Nod catalog, but wasn't willing to pay so much!  We had to go to several places to find stuff that was similar and had the same overall feel.  We junked and donated a lot of stuff, shopped, painted, organized and put together furniture.  We are still waiting for the dresser and the bed for which I managed to find matching pink and gray Victorian style quilted bedding.  We will probably frame some pictures that we took around San Francisco to hang on the currently bare walls.  It took me and husband, with help from my mom, from Friday night to Sunday night to get everything together.  But,  given that we started from zero, I think we did a good job.

Emma already loves her new room - she wants to sit at the little play table all the time, and she was so upset when we had to kick her out while we painted and while we let the room air out.  Tonight, she was drawing and playing with puzzles at the table until bedtime.