Big girl bed

Our little girl passed through another rite of passage in her 4 short years of life. It all came about through some friends of ours, the right timing and a little extra cash raised from selling the double stroller my husband loathed and had nicknamed "The Limo."

Katherine has moved on up to a full size big girl bed.

This past week, I had been using my time out on the front porch, while watching kiddos play, to sand down the loose paint areas. Yesterday was the big painting day. Today was the day to purchase the linens. And tonight was the always fun assembling of the bed, sheets, pillows, shams and re-arranging of the room, again.

The kids had a blast jumping and playing on the mattress while it was on the floor. Daddy even got in some tickle time on me, which Nathan thought was hilarious.

Although, there was one slight problem. Right when it got to the really fun part of putting the bed together with sheets and pillows, Jim and I stood staring at the assembled bed with furrowed brows, speechless. The mattresses were insanely tall and they covered the headboard minus about 2 inches peeking out the top.

I guess our first concern was how tall it was, because Katherine is still kind of sleeping half on and half off of her toddler bed.

The other perplexing part of it all was how the mattresses covered the headboard. The headboard was what I was interested in most about this bed. It's got great little girly-girl curves with turned bedposts and it wasn't too big of a bed for her. So what in the world can we do with this great bed that apparently isn't high enough for the mattress that came with it?

The children found what they could do, which was use the footboard as a ladder, climb up on top of the insanely high bed and jump on it, almost hitting their heads on the spinning fan above.

So far, until she's a little bit more familiar with this bed, she's minus a box spring. If daddy lays on it, the mattress bulges through the support slats underneath. We'll try the box spring again later.

Guess that would explain why I got a really good deal on it.

Good news is that mommy gets to practice a little Design on a Dime and break out some more sewing and painting skills. I see this as the last chance I'll get to decorate her room before she really has some definite likes/dislikes that don't coincide with mine or our budget.