The Bunkbed is FINISHED!!

top bed (end view)

this is how we pinned the slats in. That pin goes through the board at a diagonal, and sticks into the rail to hold it all in place.

Yeah, it is finally done!!! We moved it into Samuel's room tonight, and all of the kids are getting to sleep in it! Well almost all of them. Samuel up top, and Jacque and Calista on the bottom (sorry Ellen isn't big enough yet). They are so excited. Aaron is in there right now trying to play the guitar so they will settle down and go to sleep.

Aaron and I did most of the assembly, but everyone was eager to help where they could. Samuel, Jacque and Calista did a good job carrying in the slats and side rails. Even Ellen tried to help push the boards in. They also loved climbing all over the boards before the mattresses were put on.

Samuel can get up to the top easily, and with a little effort, Jacque can too.

Poor Melinda! (She's the one I babysit for.) She came about 20 minutes after putting the bedding on it and she got to see and hear the excitement. Her boys went to Grandma's for the weekend so we just have Meredith. Last night it all went well, and hopefully it keeps going that way.

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Change of topic. We had our kids' eyes tested this last week. The girls are great so far. He said that they were a little far sighted but it was the same amount in each eye and they were still reading 20-20, and babies are born far sighted and it usually goes away by age 6-7. So we are supposed to go back in a year or two. Samuel has a little bit of a lazy eye. He sees just fine out of his left eye, but his right eye is 20-30 (which means he can see something at 20 feet, that others can at 30). So we are going to get him some glasses and we will need to patch his good eye for three hours every day, and try to do some sort of eye hand coordination for 1 hour of that time. We will do this for 3-6 months and hopefully that will help his eye be functional. He will still have to wear glasses or contacts for the rest of his life, but that's not too bad.