now and then

September has been a busy month of painting and rearranging. It all has to do with Leo... the guy needs his own room so he can learn how to sleep. So Jane had to move out of her room and in with her big sisters. Which means the three girls needed a bigger room. So they kicked the boys out of their room, and the brothers moved into the girls' room. Then Leo moved into Jane's old room. And this meant... painting and rearranging. We are almost (almost) done with hanging shelves and decorating walls but, happily, everyone is sleeping in beds in their new rooms (well, except Leo... we're still working on that).

But today, as Joe sat on the floor with his Pokemon cards with the sun shining in, I remembered when we first moved into this house. This was his original room. He's back where he started... only just a little bigger.