Roomies

About a month ago I moved the girls into the same room. I'd always wanted them to share a room someday-- I think it all stems from growing up and listening to my two brothers in the room next to me. They shared a room (I was in a room by myself), and each night I would hear them giggling, having farting contests, fighting over whether it was a "fan-on" or "fan-off" night, or waging stuffed animal wars where every stuffed animal in sight was thrown at the other person. I would slip into their room and try to be a part of all the action, but it wasn't the same when I was there-probably because I was a girl, or maybe because I wasn't their roommate and so was left out of all their inside jokes. One thing is for sure though- they did have a lot of fun together in that room!

So impulsively one day I asked the girls if they wanted to share a room. They said yes and were so excited, so I immediately started moving furniture around before they changed their minds. I set up a trundle bed in Willa's room and moved the beds along a different wall so it would feel "new" for Willa too. I moved Larkin's double bed out of her room so that she would not be able to wimp out and come to her old room easily. We renamed Willa's room the "Girls' Room." Willa had a hard time with it for a few days ("When will Larkin go back to her own room? This is mine!!") but now she cries whenever I talk about possibly moving Larkin back to her old room.

They don't talk or giggle as much as I expected them to (this is probably because I'm trying to get them to stop napping, so on most days they are so exhausted they just pass right out!). At night they sleep in just a t-shirt and underwear, and at least once each week they've come into our room exasperated because the other won't go to sleep, or so-and-so keeps talking, or so-and-so is scratching her pillow and it's annoying, etc. It's the cutest thing-- they just stand in our doorway in their undies with their hands on their hips while they spout out a list of complaints. They're usually half annoyed at the other person and half just stalling to not go to bed themselves. Overall though I think they are loving it!

Here's a video clip of them jumping on the beds. This has since been outlawed in our house, but I let them do it for a week or so to get it out of their system!