Bunkbeds and Rain

I had written this last week when the rain was pouring and we had no internet for a few days.

One of the biggest adjustments we have had to make for the arrival of our new baby in 7 weeks has been moving Joelle and Liam into bunk beds in the same room. Unfortunately it has not gone how I had hoped. We expected some talking and playing but now bed times take about 2+ hours before they are asleep some things they are doing it is hard not to laugh because it is so ridiculous. The first few nights Joelle would lower her blanket so Liam could grab onto it and she would try with all her might to pull him up into her bed…it never ended well, we are guessing that Liam got part way up and then would fall with a loud bang and tears.  The reason they are doing this is we took away the ladder to eliminate Liam climbing up into Joelle’s bed. After a few nights of this they gave up and Joelle began to climb down into Liam’s bed. Other times we have gone in there to check on them because there was too much laughing we found Liam packed into the costume basket with only his face peeking out, I don’t think he could move if he wanted too. After we pulled him out of the basket we noticed that Joelle was in her bunk bed and was not wearing her pajamas or her nighttime diaper! She was standing there buck naked,  it was really hard not to laugh since we have never had this happen before.  I am hoping that in 7 weeks bed time is not a 2 hour process to get them to sleep; we have had some really grumpy days because of all the sleep they are missing out on. We have tried putting them to bed one at a time but they seem to wake each other up once they are in the same room. Putting them to sleep in different rooms doesn’t work because neither of them will fall asleep in our bed and both of them will not sleep in the play pen anymore since they have learned to climb out of it. At this point we are just praying that they learn to go to sleep in the same room soon.

 A prayer request that we have is that the two of them learn to fall asleep quickly in the same room well before we add a new baby to family.

Since the fire was put out earlier this month we have had nothing but rain, almost every day since. The ground is saturated and the water has nowhere to go right now, I am really thankful that we live on a hill and all the rain is running down to the lake.  We are currently under a heavy rain fall warning with over 70mm of rain falling in the last 24 hours and another 50-100mm forecasted for the rest of today and tomorrow.  Troy has been kept really busy with new leaks that are showing up in buildings around the camp. Please pray that the rain will let up so the maintenance guys can fix all the leaks safely and that no more appear.