Question about kids sharing rooms...

[Amber Ferguson]

Hey Everyone! I have a question....
I want the girls to start sharing a room soon since we have a little boy on the way (yay!). One is 2 1/2 (sleeps in toddler bed) and the other is 14 months (still in crib). Kinsey (2) talks/plays/sings before she goes to bed and Keegan (1) goes to sleep right away. I am concerned if I put them together...they will end up playing instead of sleeping and when one wakes up in night or morning they will wake each other up. I don't let Kinsey out of her room until I get her so she doesn't get up at night...she will just play and go back to sleep. So actually here is the question: If you had kids that shared a room...when did you do it (how old were they)? How did you handle them waking each other up? Any suggestions/advice?? Thanks!!

[Midge Edmond]

Amber,
How are you? Very busy by the sound of your growing family! What a blessing! I was trying to think back to our children and where we had them sleep and the more I could think about it, the less I can remember! I do know that most of the time we had many children in each room because often times we only had two bedrooms...And most of the time, we ended up with the baby in the bed with us. I remember one place we lived we had the baby in bed with us and a crib in our room as well. That was one way we kept the youngest two from keeping each other awake.
I remember our oldest daughter, who has eight children, ran into this problem. I think she ended up putting the baby with the next one and left the oldest alone because she was the loud one (like your Kinsey). When Jesse (her youngest boy) was big enough to realize or cause a problem with the little girl, they were capable of understanding the need to go to sleep and the problem was solved...
Don't know if any of that helps but it was fun for me to go down memory lane!!
Hope we have a chance to meet up again soon.
Midge