Still trying to figure out what we're going to do with the bedroom situation. I am pretty sure I'll put the baby with Matthew almost right away.. if the baby keeps him up at night then he can always come and sleep in our room. It's where to put them. Right now Matthew is in the smallest room, with the biggest closet. So, it would kinda make sense to put Katie and Danielle in there.. they have the most clothes but will take up the least amount of space in the actual bedroom since they'll still be in bunkbeds.
I might put Johanna and Alaina in bunkbeds, but Johanna still sleepwalks at night so it'll have to be Alaina on the top... Johanna won't like that.... If they are not in bunkbeds, but separate twin beds, then they'll need more space as well as Matthew and the baby who obviously won't be in bunk beds. The problem with this is the paint colors on the walls.... the smallest room with the biggest closet is painted in boyish colors... green and light brown.. ok for girls.. BUT the other two rooms are totally girl colors. So if I put Matthew and the baby in one of them they are either going to have pink/green walls or purple/green/gray walls... sigh... I really really don't want to paint again. Maybe that doesn't matter... I mean they don't care, right?
Then there's Lisey. I think at this point she will be with katie and Danielle... she could share a room with Johanna and Alaina but they go to bed the same time as she does and they talk awhile. Katie and Danielle go to bed later so it'd give Elise a chance to fall asleep before they go in there. But then that's putting three girls in the tiniest room...... but honestly it's that big walk in closet... they can keep the guinea pig in there for one... that means when he stinks we can close the closet door, haha! I know I could make them go through their clothes so they have less and then would be able to fit them in a small closet (we are going to do that either way), but it still just makes so much more sense for them to have the bigger closet.... sigh... we'll see......
Right now the 4 oldest girls are in the same room. It really is fine at this point and I could leave it this way. The problem is all their clothes (except Katie) are in Matthew's closet (the great big one...) so his room is constantly a mess with THEIR stuff... and he literally has nowhere to put his clothes except for a dresser and once I move the baby stuff in there there will not be ANY room for the extra dressers that the girls are using. So, what I'd have to do anyway if I wanted to keep the 4 oldest girls together is move Matthew and the baby in the bigger (purple/green/gray) room that Elise is in now and move Elise in Matthew's room WITH the big closet and then SHE can have a perpetually messy room because of her sisters, lol... but then there's still the problem of having the boys in a purple room (3 walls are purple, of course). See??? See my dilemma?
The reason I am considering splitting up the 4 girls is not because they are not getting along, in fact it's been fine, but I am not seeing any benefit to it relationally. They are not closer because of it... bonding does not happen between the oldest 2 and youngest 2 at bedtime, which was the primary reason I wanted to do this in the first place. They all play together outside of their room and bedtime, but that would happen whether or not they shared a room. So... I just really want their clothes in their own rooms... I just don't know.
The last option which is the LAST option, as I don't like it at all... is putting K and D in the basement. I want them all close to us though and I do feel that is crossing a line with separating them. That is giving them way too much privacy, too much entitlement and it takes away our playroom (which isn't necessary, but nice) and our guest room (which at times IS necessary).
So for now.. they'll all stay upstairs...... still confused though.
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