the master.

living in a one bedroom condo/apartment with a baby has turned out to be a bit tougher than we might have thought. 

kind of like most things in parenting (ha!). 

but it's also been so good for us. and we really like the many benefits of living where we do and overall just like our space, so we deal with the one bedroom factor. 

but now that eli is in his own bed, has been for several months (and did i mention sleeps so well! yes, he does.), we needed to give him his own space. just after christmas, we moved him into our "study cove" and just put the desk ("study") in our room, "the master room". but the master is now eli's and it's working so, so great. it's darker, has doors, keeps all his toys, and we are even giving him a little balcony play right off his room! (homemade sandbox is on it's way). 

so here's to the master. our boy or the room, you decide :)

it's quite a lot of space for a baby, but honestly, moon and i just looked at each other and said, "why didn't we do this 3 months ago?" 

everyone sleeps great. it's functional. we're happy.

i made him a teepee. he LOVES it. easiest thing ever, but the stakes need to be replaced with bigger (stronger!) wood. would you believe he broke one? (smile). 

but that's the only thing we did to the room. ever other part is recycled, we found, were given (his crib), or we already had.

now we sleep here: