The Halls of Odin

We moved everything around yesterday and made Odin his own room. We call it The Halls of Odin.

At first, we had his crib in our room. Well, he never slept in it because we co-slept with him. But then he needed his own bed because he was tossing around all night wanting to move around a lot and that would wake us up so we'd wake him up and we'd all be up every hour. So we moved into the living room on the futon and let him sleep in our room. Well, we decided we wanted our room back, and our neighbors hated having him cry over their heads (go figure, they have a baby his age too, what's the big deal?), so we moved him into the living room and got to have our room back. That worked great, except when we have people over, we all have to head into our bedroom or the office room. Plus, if you leave to use the bathroom or get something from the kitchen, you wake him up, and you can't watch a movie in the living room.

We've sold some furniture and decreased the space we need because we have a laptop instead of a desktop computer, so we moved some stuff out of the office (we called it The Lab) and put all of Odin's things in there. It's great because all his dressers and shelves aren't crowding the rest of our house, and he's got his own room we can shut him in to go to sleep and still have the rest of the house. Plus, he has so little furniture that it can be spread out around the room so it looks like there's tons of space, and he can mess it up as much as he wants and we don't have to pick all his toys up every night. He really likes being able to just go wild in there without us having to tell him not to get into something or putting things away once he walks away from them.