When you get serious about fitting 5 kids into a 2 bedroom apartment you really take a look at necessities and throw everything else out. I've got a couple bags to go to goodwill and another bag of garbage. Huge bags. The kind that come from Les Schwab that they put your nasty tire in to keep your trunk clean.
Right now we've got three girls in the one bedroom. Bunkbed - twin size. And an upper piece of a trundle - crib size. In our closet we've got one boy in the bottom piece of the trundle - crib mattress. And now I am figuring out footage for a pack-and-play.
And I found it. In the corner of our master bedroom. Which also happens to correspond with the heater, but that will just have to be a problem for another day.
We've had a crib since Alaska was a baby and have only used it for her. For Talmage it never got set up because by the time he was big enough to move out of the pack and play we had C and just kept him in there because then we had two girls in the other room.
It has been amazing to see the transformation of that room all the girls are in right now. How full it felt with just Alaska in it. How full it was with C and Alaska doing the crib size trundle bed with two dressers. I couldn't imagine fitting a bunk bed in there; having three girls was totally out of the mind's imagination. And now we've got three dressers in that room and the two beds. It is a jigsaw puzzle of tetras that we have conquered by slowly adding pieces here and there. It is the way I like it right now. Nothing more needs to be shuffled - but it is definitely packed.
The walls are lined all the way around with either a bed or a dresser. I also got an oversized clothes basket that is separated into 3 parts because I found that unless the clothes are sorted as they are dirtied, I have huge avoidance issues of the laundry.
Two dressers are used for clothes and the third is used for storage. Everyone has their 'special drawer' that they can fill with whatever they want. Currently they are stuffed full of colored and drawn pictures, some cheap-o toys that they seem to be constantly picking up as prizes, and some other things that they call 'theirs'. This system has been a lifesaver as far as collections of stacks of things being all over the place.
I also ran to IKEA one weekend - one of those weekends where it was easier to have them out of the house than in the house - and got another storage unit to put up in there. This is where all the books go and a few toys and doubles as a nightstand for all three girls, at all their different heights of beds.
The Elsa and Anna decor is still up, even though I had to take down a lot of pictures and things to make wall room for the bunk beds. The pendant banners and tissue pom-poms have stayed and while it is totally outdated because FROZEN is way out - it's functional and cuter than nothing, so it has stayed. Right now I am collecting things to make a mermaid room for Alaska. Whenever that happens. She may be getting moved into the closet and Talmage could potentially be moved into the other room with the baby and we'll call it a 'boy room'.
I've never decorated a boy room before and am scouring pinterest and etsy for ideas. Right now I've got a Peter Pan theme flying around in my head or a 'Where the Wild Things Are' going on.
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