Big Changes for Evelyn

Evelyn and her favorite kitty, Snowy

 It's about time we had a post about big things in Evy's life.  About a month ago we tried unsuccessfully to move Evelyn from her crib into a "big girl bed," and also to her new, bigger bedroom.  Well, then we decided to paint that room before attempting to move her again.  It had been chocolate brown.  Here is a before picture from 5 or 6 years ago, when it was Jared's room.

Here are the "after" pictures.  I also bought a couple of new decorations.  Thanks to Alan who did like 95% of the work.  I helped with prep work, corners, and touch ups.

We also put in some regular blinds instead of the mini blinds that had been in there before.  It looks so much better to me!

There is just something so cute about seeing a little girl sleeping in a big bed for the first time.  Evelyn had a hard time in her bed for about two nights, and then she was good to go.  She also loves the new yellow paint and now thinks that yellow is her favorite color (she always wants yellow shirts, yellow socks, yellow bowls, etc.)

While we were on a painting roll, we used General Conference weekend to paint the nursery, too, now that Evelyn was officially moved out.  I guess I finally felt more committed to do some repainting now that I knew we were going to be having so many little girls in our family.

Here is the before picture:

Here is an "after" picture:  We did mint green on top of the molding and a light coral underneath.  (I didn't want it to be TOO girly.)  :)  I still need to hang up some things on the walls.

Now, this week (after all our camping trips are over) we are finally getting Evelyn potty trained!  I was going to start later this week, but yesterday morning she woke up and asked, "Mommy, can I wear big girl underwear today?"  What a request!  I cancelled all my plans yesterday so I could stay home with her and work on it.  She has been ready for a while but I was feeling so crummy with morning sickness and we also had some camping trips planned, so I put it off.  Now she has been doing so well so far.

I'm so proud of my big girl!

Here is just a random photo of piggy tails.  I can't get over how cute she is!