Moving on Up and more...

This is Hannah a couple days back on the first night she spent in her big girl bed! Yep you heard it right... She has moved on up to a big girl bed! The process so far has been pretty painless. We had an extremely smooth transition coupled with extreme excitement and so far she has not gotten out of her bed even 1 time! Hannah seems to be in an extremely positive season for change. We thought we better take advantage of it in case it becomes not so inviting in the near future!

You can tell that she is very proud to be in a big girl bed and paired up with big girl underwear, Hannah is unstoppable these days! We've even started working on writing the alphabet (I know I thought it was a little crazy too, but our Pastor's Wife assured me she'd grab a hold of it and run!) That she has done! Huge improvements on the letter A in just 6 days!

So thought I'd post round-a-bout shots of Hannah's renovated big girl room. As you can see in the above picture (This is what you see when you enter Hannah's room) we have taken the changing pad off of the changing table (In the corner) and turned it into more of a shelf. This is also where Hannah's new lava lamp has been placed, replacing the Fischer Price baby aquarium that hung in her crib. (She was so attached to that, still having a hard time believing she let it go without too much dispute!) Obvious bed in the left corner.

If you continue to pan your gaze left while standing in her room you will come upon the "Sitting area" =) This is where she colors and reads her books, sometimes just relaxes, or pretends to be at school with her stuffed animals. The "table" is the big thimble thing that John made Hannah for Christmas which can pretty much turn into anything as she utilizes her imagination. Very exciting!

Continue left to her closet, where the brunt of the toys etc. get placed. We have also been teaching Hannah to make her bed when she wakes up in the morning and after her nap. Gotta start young for that one to stick! She is doing phenominal! Don't worry we don't require crisp corners or anything, just trying to start good habits now!

Continue left and you will find the door and her bookshelf. We're pretty happy with how it turned out and again Hannah couldn't be more excited! Growth is such a positive thing and it is absolutely amazing to watch Hannah do it!

Here is Hannah this morning... Very uninterested in the camera. It takes a while for this sleeping beauty to wake up and face the world!

On to other things... or thing. Here is the "Goal Board" we made over the weekend to help celebrate our anniversary. I designed it in my head, spit out all of the details, and John took my jumbled thoughts and ideas... Designing the exact thing I had pictured in my head! The various colors are for various things... Green = Financial Goals; Blue = John's Goals; Orange = Family Goals; Purple= Hannah's Goals; Pink = Christina's Goals. The rest of the squares are to be determined, along with just some room to grow. It is such an important thing to keep your goals in a place that you visit often. It's not too helpful to write them down in a place that you only visit once a year. Our brains are too busy to keep something so seldom visited as a priority.

So what better place to put it than the kitchen? We are definitely there everyday! We are excited to begin adding things to our boards. Pictures, words, phrases, unidentified objects that mean something... The sky is the limit as we can personalize our section in any and all ways we want to. I highly suggest you and your family make one of these! We can't wait to fill ours and watch as we begin to replace accomplished goals with new goals! How exciting! =)