The Princess Bed

Penelope has been wanting a "big girl bed," especially when she saw her friend Libbi's princess bed. Now, Libbi's bed is really just a bunk bed found at a garage sale and turned into a loft bed. Her handy dad built a great ladder to go with it, and her crafty mom built a purple canopy thing that hangs from the ceiling (not sure how to describe exactly, but if you are on pinterest you've seen them made from hula hoops). Penelope fell in love with it.

We've had some issues with Penelope climbing into our bed at night and/or falling asleep with me when we zonk out at 8:00 reading stories together. Maybe it would be smarter to not read stories in my comfortable bed. Way too logical! We kept telling Penelope she had to sleep in her own bed. She said "I will in my princess bed" We decided to wait until after the move.

Chris's mom has been asking to buy Penelope a new bed since Christmas so the moment we said princess bed  she whipped out her iPad and googled away. Penelope was determined to have a bed with a ladder. I also like loft beds for the play room underneath. You tell Phyllis princess bed and you get princess bed! She did show it to us first and ask multiple times "so you want me to order it?" At one point I said "hmmm...I wonder if we should measure the room?" But I didn't.

We got the mattress and 3 enormous boxes. Chris started saturday morning and finished around 4:00 that evening. Here's what I saw at the end of the day:

It's hard to take pictures of the room because it is long and skinny, but yes, that is a slide coming off of her bed...directly into the closet! I asked "ummm...could we turn it the other way and have the slide against the back wall?" Chris looked at me and said "we'll live with it for a week". I guess it is not an easy switcheroo to move the slide. I'm thinking of actually switching Penny's room for the office.

Penelope was beyond happy. That first night we had to constantly yell "get off the slide". By 10:30 when I threatened to bring up the car bed and lose the princess bed she finally went to sleep.

Yet by the second night when I walked into my bedroom to go to sleep, this is what I found:

Gah! Princess bed with slide and she still sleeps in our bed!