Trading Spaces

With the girls growing like weeds, a few weeks ago it was time to move them into separate cribs.

When we first came home from the hospital, they slept in a pack 'n play bassinet in our bedroom, but their grunts kept Chris awake, so after two weeks they moved into their room.

They shared one of the two cribs, at first sleeping side by side. As they grew, we kept them in one crib, but changed their position so that they slept head to toe. No matter how far apart we placed them when we laid them down to bed, we would find them snuggled right next to each other when it was time to get up to eat. It was hard to imagine the day when we would need to separate them.

Emily and Addison tested out their new bed on the day we came home from the hospital

Well, with their three month birthday past and the nights getting warmer, we stopped swaddling them at night. Without the swaddles to keep their arms and legs contained, the girls began keeping each other awake with their flailing limbs. At that point, we decided that Emily and Addison would need to begin sleeping in their own cribs.

June 2nd, one of the last nights the girls would share a crib

Addison stayed in the crib they had shared since they were two weeks old, and Emily moved into the vacant crib. They seem comfortable in their new beds, but it's bittersweet to see that they are too big to snuggle in one crib anymore.

Addison asleep tonight in her bed

and Emily asleep in hers