For the first time in the history of the world...

Armand and Elio are sleeping in their own beds underneath their own Guatemalan quilts!  Armand received his as a gift from Donnie when he was a baby, and I bought Elio's when I visited Guatemala with Noah and Eiley when Elio was three.

 

 

We spent the weekend making a bedroom for the boys to share and they have now slept in there for two nights.  Below is a photo of the room.  Dialga, the bearded dragon, is in a cage above the art organizer to the left.  The art table has been used non-stop the past few days now that it has been cleared of Elio's stagnating clay projects.  The dresser is holding all the boys clothes, one drawer for Armand and two for Elio (who needs a supply of both cool weather and warm weather clothes all summer).  Their bunk bed is on the opposing wall - the upper for Armand and the bottom for Elio and Arria! 



 





As I was rearranging the master bedroom now that the twin bed has been removed, Elio said 'Our lives will be changed forever, won't they, Mom?'  I asked him what he meant.  He said now when he gets into my bed he'll have to get in the middle.  He used to sleep on the side when the bed was pushed against the wall.  He said he remembers a monster used to run its fingers up and down Elio's belly when he slept on the side when he 'was a kid'.  Now I know why he is so terribly afraid of sleeping on the outside of a bed when we go to a hotel!  He had never told me of that monster before.