Bunking up!


It's hard to believe that the time has already come, but we spent a big part of this past weekend transitioning Samantha out of her room and into her "new" shared space with Trevor.

Here is what their rooms looked like before:


Trevor's Room

Samantha's Room






Everyone pitched in to help switch things up...



Trevor packing up some dinos

Greg flipping Trev's bed 

Samantha settling into her new digs

I was so impressed with our kids! Trevor had a little trouble on Saturday when we flipped his bed over and brought Sam's bedding in (there were some shouts of "my room" ringing through the halls) but, in all fairness, it was late in the afternoon and he had not had a nap.

On Sunday we moved the rest of Sam's stuff in and he was fine. Samantha has been nothing but agreeable about everything which is not like her (calm before the storm?) She willingly helped me pack up a bunch of her little knick-knack items and she even went through her treasure box and picked out some special things that she said she wanted to gift to Nastya.

Here's the "after":

Samantha and Trevor's new set up

Nastya's Room!

 

  

We will be displaying her mail on this  clothesline...

Mr. Panda will be coming to the airport with us!







There's a pretty good chance that Nastya will end up in the same room with our two kiddos during her visit (she is used to having a few roomies back home) so we are prepared for that to happen. There's even a possibility that she will end up on a mattress on the floor of our room...no worries.

 

We just wanted her to have a space of her own to be able to go decompress if she needs it. She is going to have a lot to adjust to when she first arrives (someone described it to being transplanted onto Mars) so we hope that having Samantha's room as her own will be a blessing to her.

 

We still need to make some welcome signs for Nastya to help her feel like Samantha's room is hers, but I've still got 7 days to make that happen, right? Eeeek!! Thanks for your continued prayers that everything else will come together...we are so excited!