Double the Room

Last night was the first for the girls in individual cribs. Before this point, they have happily shared one crib. A while ago, when sharing the crib, they would often be awoken after only a few hours of sleep by bumping heads. We broke down and bought a crib divider (pictured below). I remember being so happy when they went a solid 5 hours the first night they slept with the divider in place.Now they are just too darn big to share a crib. So we spent the weekend getting the room ready (we are seriously lacking on space to put baby stuff!) and Chesley proved his mastery of instruction following by building the crib. He even showed me where the instructions were wrong at one point. We went through many configuration in the tiny room and finally settled on the most functional arrangement.

Here is what it looks like now! We will be hanging a cool map of the world with animated animals on the large bare wall. Chesley is holding Avery while Alina is chilling in the bouncie, taking in her new digs.
We think they liked the extra space as they were put to bed at 9 PM last night and did not wake up for their bottle until 6 AM. I guess that will technically fly as the first night of sleeping through the whole thing.