Finally tackled a chore this weekend that I have wanted to get done for a while: Bed shopping. Rachel has been in her toddler bed for probably too long, considering that her cousin and other friends all have real, big-girl, twin beds. So, on Sunday we went out in the cold rain/slow/whatever the hell the weather was doing that day, it's a nightmare here -- to store after store to price beds. Drew very smartly suggested Rachel might want to bring a book or her Leap Pad to keep busy in the car as we drove all over creation, since Arlington is really spread out.
After visits to a couple of furniture stores, we settled on a bed from Pottery Barn Kids (we had a welcome-to-the-neighborhood coupon that helped quite a bit with the price). It's a nice, simple, white twin bed. Rachel was disappointed that we wouldn't buy her a bunk bed or a loft bed, but I kept reminding her that this is a bed she's going to have to want to sleep in even when she's 16. She was only mollified after I promised her that we could accessorize it with cute pillows and bed coverings. (And if she really wants a princessy look, there is plenty I could do with mosquito netting, some ribbons and hooks from the ceiling. Maybe as a surprise when she comes home from a playdate one day??).
The point is: She is growing UP. Soon we'll have to get her a desk, and reconfigure her room so that it looks like a teen is living there instead of a little girl. And that makes me sad.
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