Bigger and better / HELP

So sweet Mr. Raymond has more or less decided he no longer needs an afternoon nap. It's pretty much the saddest thing ever. But I am coming to terms with it.

So much so, that I've decided since he won't take naps anyway,  we might has well move him out of the crib (that he has never climbed out of. Yep, he's scared of heights) and into a "big boy" bed. The other motivation for this is that I am a lazy mom and don't always get him out of his bed right when he wakes up in the morning... and thus he still has to wear a diaper to bed. Bad mom. So this might help with that.

Anyhow, thus begins the great debate at our house (ok so mostly in my  head except when Jeremy is around and then he pretends to listen to me debate it out with occasional "mm hmmm" comments). Do we get a twin bed? Or an IKEA "children's bed" (which is slightly longer than a normal toddler bed)?

The issue really is space. You see, the kids' bedroom is, um, more like the size of a big walk in closet. A mere seven (!!) feet wide. So a twin bed happens to be about six and half feet long... so it would, in fact, fit in the room. But it means we would not ever be able to fit three children in that room (and we will have THREE children in less than six months!!). Of course, we are also still debating whether or not we stay in this apartment... but that deserves another post altogether.  Sigh. I love my w/d hookups and three minute walk to the law school.

So in my late night debating, I finally decided to make a scale model of the kids' room and play with my options. Here's the visual of the two options:

OPTION 1: an IKEA Children's bed. Note that if we switched the crib to the other side of the room, there would still be space for a pack-n-play for the baby.

OPTION 2: A twin bed (either a standard twin, or an extra long--which we saw at Sam's Club)

These models are actually pretty accurate and according to scale (with my limited scaling abilities...). We don't really play in their room much, nor do we keep toys in there at all. Currently there is also a rocking chair in there, but it's falling apart and will go sometimes soon, regardless of the bed choice. If we do the smaller bed, it might stay longer, however.

So, THOUGHTS?? What would you do? I am at a TOTAL LOSS.

And then there were five

So call us crazy (we are!) but excited. 

I definitely am wearing maternity jeans. And craving crazing things like Chinese food (orange chicken, please) and Cafe Rio salads (sweet pork, please). And am so tired I might not even flinch in my sleep when you call at 8:45pm. 

But it'll be worth it around this time...

...when another little boy joins the family.