New Home & Bedtime Routine

As some of you may (or may not) know, we recently moved into our new home in Puyallup. Our new house has a nice fully fenced backyard with a "big toy" complete with slide, swings and monkey bars. It's a nicely sized rambler (one level) in a great location near South Hill Mall. I think we'll be very happy here in this house.

HOWEVER...bedtime routine has become quite the challenge. The kids have become masters of all possible excuses / delay tactics at bedtime including: have to go potty, have to go poop, want a drink of water, need a hug, need a big hug, need another kiss, read another book, i'm hot, i'm cold, ethan's looking at me, john bit me, keep the door open, open the door more, it's too dark, it's too light, mommy...i love you VERY much, need more hugs from daddy, i sleep in your bed, i have a boogie, there's a bee (really it's a fly) in my room....need I go on?!?

Thank god they're so cute when they're sleeping :). I think it'll just take some time to work into a new routine at this new house. I've attached a few pictures of our new home...

Front view of our house and garage...

View of backyard, before we got it watered and looking green and decorated with our patio furniture (this is about half of the backyard...there's a whole other side on the right (not pictured))...

Fireplace in living room (finally starting to get the house decorated)...

Guest bedroom decorated in chocolate browns and blues...

Main bathroom painted and decorated...

Living room (before furniture & decorations) with double french doors leading out to the backyard (behind me taking the picture)...

Happy brothers riding their bikes in the backyard...