An Early Birthday Surprise!

In just one short week, those twins of ours are turning the ripe age of 8!  Mike and I have been thinking about re-doing the decor in their room for a while now but hadn't been able to decide the right time. While we were out and about on Friday and the kids were with Papa, I brought it up and we decided on a whim to do it as a little pre-birthday surprise for them to come home to.  We spent some time shopping around for the perfect pieces and then a little time taking down the previous Mario Kart decor and gave them each a little personality on their sides of the room with a superhero theme. 

Zaric, of course, had to have Spiderman. No question there! 

And Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah BATMAN! For Zaden's Side! 

We wondered how long it would take them to notice after they got back. But it took merely seconds! They were so excited! I'm pretty sure the neighbors could have heard them yelling excitedly and talking to each other about it as they pointed out things right down to the new drawer pulls. It took me a few minutes to convince them that it was in fact Mom and Dad that left the surprise and not the Easter Bunny (a hazard of an early spring birthday I suppose), but that made it all the more special when they realized it and then gave me a massive hug and lots of thank you's.

Close to bed time, I asked them to sit on their new comforters and give me a rating of how they liked their new digs on a scale of 1-10. We scored a perfect 10!

We still need to pick up a few finishing pieces and have some new valances on order, but all in all we have some pretty happy almost 8 year olds in this house, even if Zaric still can't figure out how Mom and Dad knew this is exactly what he'd been dreaming about. I guess we are just psychic like that.