Big girl room - finished!

Since we didn't go to Paris on Friday like we were supposed, Greg and I worked on getting Meredith's big girl finished while she was at daycare. We surprised her with it when she got home. She did wonderful considering she moved right from her crib to the twin bed. She was so excited for it. She giggled and squealed and tried to jump on the bed. And she picked the colors and bedding out all on her own so we embraced that to it's full extent I think.

Here is the new bed:

The nightstand and curtains:

Close-up of the wall decal:

The bedding:

The bookcase:

The dresser (we're still undecided about what to do with this corner).

The stuffed animal holder that doesn't hang straight:

And finally, the big girl in her big girl bed!

The foot - a week later

We officially cancelled the trip to Paris :-( We didn't think it was going to work with my foot.

Here are some pictures of it one week later.

I think my cankle is going away a bit finally! I see a glimpse of my ankle in this one.

Broken

Yesterday I was enjoying the beautiful weather with Meredith outside. We ventured out to our neighborhood playground which just happens to be right next to the pool. I was focusing on the pool because it appeared that it was filled and ready to be used for the season. As I was walking I happened to step in a hole and the next thing I knew I was in the ground and in lots of pain.

I tried to keep my cool so Meredith wouldn't think something was wrong. I managed to make it up to the playground and back home.

With this trip to Europe coming up in just five days, I decided to go get it looked at to see if I fractured it. Low and behold, there is a broken bone in my foot. So now I sit here wondering what to do with this trip. We're supposed to leave on Friday and I have a broken foot bone. I have to wear a walking boot for six weeks which is not easy to get around in. Without the boot I am limping.

And now the ash cloud from that volcano is supposed to be spreading towards France later this week.

I just don't know if this trip was meant to be. We're seriously contemplating canceling. I just don't know how we're going to make this work :-(

Here's a picture in case you wanted a visual. I realize it looks like a dead body.

Sneak peek of the big girl room

Meredith can not get out of her crib. It is so low that she has just never tried so we have never thought about converting it to a toddler bed. After she potty trained a couple months ago, she has become such a big girl and we decided it's time for her to move to a big girl room. We gave her the option of staying in her current room or moving to the guest room and surprisingly she picked the guest room. So, that began the whole process of getting her new room ready.

We ordered her a twin bed, and bought a book shelf, a dresser, and a night table. I had big plans to paint it pastel yellow and have some pretty gingham bedding but she really wanted nothing to do with that. She wanted monkeys and pink walls.

Per that request, here is what we have done so far. We hope to have this project finished by the end of Memorial Day weekend (assuming the bed arrives when it's supposed to).