Brynn and Mason have been roommates for the last year and a half. You see, there are only 2 bedrooms upstairs in our house, so even though we don't use all our bedrooms in our basement, I felt like Mason was too little to be down there by himself. It's been a rough road with them sharing a room. Brynn was such a poor sleeper for the first 11 months of her life that Mason spent most of that time in our room sleeping on a pile of blankets on the floor. Even since she has started sleeping better we were faced with one of these scenarios almost every night. Scenario A: Brynn would start fussing a bit during the night and after a while Mason would yell, "BE QUIET BRYNN!", which would scare her. She would become hysterical as Mason stomped out of their room and climbed in bed with Scott while I went to calm Brynn down.
Scenario B: Brynn would start fussing a little bit and to avoid scenario A I would run in and give her a binky.
Scenario C: Mason would wander into our room during the night throwing the doors open along the way, making Brynn stir in her sleep. When I would walk him back to his bed Brynn would be standing up in her crib half asleep, but would wake up when she saw me and would cry hysterically if I left without picking her up and rocking her for a minute. Then just when she would let me lay her back down Mason would start crying for me to lay in bed with him, making Brynn upset again. It would turn into a 20 minute ordeal to get the kids back asleep.
Scenario D: Mason would wander into our room during the night, throwing the doors open along the way. I would roll over and let him climb in bed with me to avoid scenario C.
Needless to say, it wasn't working out well for any of the parties involved. So when Mason decided he wanted to have his own bedroom downstairs, we finally agreed this would be best for our family. We unpacked my parents' 25-year-old bunk beds and gave Mason his own room. It has been heaven sent! Brynn is sleeping better, or at least no one is waking up to her fussing anymore, Mason stays in his bed all night, and both kids are sleeping almost an hour longer than they were in the same room. You'll notice the bunk beds don't exactly meet current safety standards, so Mason only sleeps on the bottom bunk while we come up with a solution to make them safer. In the meantime we are now taking bets on how long until someone gets stitches. What do you think? Did I mention Brynn knows how to climb the ladder.
