More of the big girl bed

Yes, this post will shock you out of your perception of where we live. We have a nice apartment, simple and nice. Fourth floor, almost floor to ceiling windows, three bedrooms (one which is guest room, office), two bathrooms, one with a squatty toilet, the other a western toilet. It is a great place for retreat and rest and hosting local friends and other expats. We live in the teacher's section of the nursing school, so all the other teacher's apartments look just like ours, but with possibly way more extravagant furniture (the thing that holds our TV, (what is the english word for that?)came from the second hand store for $20). The only thing we splurged on was the kitchen, and by splurge, meaning we put in cabinets, western size, not short like most here. The apartment originally had zero cabinets. This post is really to show you Sophia's room, which is an awesome room for a little girl, or two or three little ones for that matter, with great room to grow. The room is big and leads into a little area with a small step down that is almost like another room and has all the windows. Since we just put two single beds in the room we moved her bookshelf out to the 'play/school' area. Here are some pics, with close up of the bedding as promised. The pics aren't great, I took them really fast and lighting was bad, sorry. The original crib bedding/accessories lady bugs, etc. was an incredible gift from the U.S., (TCC, who spoils us).


view from the door: Xiao Chen and Sophia are drawing together at the table. This week Sophia learned how to say and understand: bird, sun, fly, fly away, (and much more in Chinese)!


to the immediate left is one of the big girl beds, not the one Sophia sleeps on.


the same bed (thanks again, Holly for he wall hangings!)


this is Sophia's big girl bed, the blanket on the wall was for her crib, I am not sure I like it on the wall really, but it is covering up two big silver circles that held two light fixtures for beds in the middle of the room, think hotel room, that is the kind of beds that our landlord had in here, originally wires were coming from the holes. we got that taken care of way long ago, but what was left was still an eyesore.


spanning the room, we see the 'extra room' play/school area, the pack-n-play is there too, but we will not put the baby way out there, don't worry!


I just had to include this area of her table and these pictures from ikea, SO cheap and so cute with fun animals on them. We love ikea, only get there when we go to Hong Kong or Singapore, which won't be again for a long time (we hope).


this is the conclusion to the right when you walk in. The glider we found here for very cheap (less than 50 USD, the dresser with removable changing table top and shelf above are all pottery barn inspired bought here for total about 100 USD, cheaper than what the furniture sold in furniture stores here, way cheaper. yes we are blessed. Once the baby is sleeping through the night we may put the pack-n-play where this glider is and move it out to the living room or something. Haven't quite figured that all out yet.

Sophia's transition to the bed has been great so far. we put the pack n play next too the bed for a railing and those chairs down at the end in the pics are also for extra railing. On Sophia's bed we put some rolled up towels under the sheet next to the wall so she doesn't hit it hard while sleeping (concrete walls are HARD). She is not allowed to get down by herself when she wakes up, she must call for us. We practiced this with her a few times, she has done great!

That ends the tour, here is close up of the bedding: