3 kids one room?

So here's my dilema, we live in Milton Ontario and for those of you who know that area, we live in over priced small homes! Well at least that's the financial bracket we fit in to at the moment, what with three kids and 2 dogs and one income! Anyways, Right now we have a 3 bedroom home, from time to time we have company and they either bunk with our oldest daughter or she sleeps in a playpen in the twins room. As a reminder, Isabelle is 2 (turns 3 Feb 25/10), Madeline and Aidan are 19 mths(ish) (turning 2 Mar 25/10).

So we are debating putting all three kids in larger of the two other bedrooms. Thus, freeing up a room for guests and my home office perhaps. Right now Isabelle sleeps in a twin size bed. The twins are still in their cribs. We transititioned Isabelle to a "big girl bed" when she turned two. We were and probably are still planning to do the same with the twins when they turn 2. The three kids managed to sleep in one room at their grandparents house so we thought they should be able to do it here also. But I'm wondering if it's just going to be chaos when all three of them can get out of their own beds.

Isabelle was really good when she went to her big bed, she usually just plays quietly for a bit at nap time and then will go back to bed and sleep. At night, she stays in her bed and just goes to sleep. I'm worried that I'm going to have three over tired kids once they are all in beds. Has anyone else had all their kids sleep in the same room at these ages? Am I better off just letting the twins be together in their room and keep Isabelle in hers? I don't really know hwat to do. Any feed back would be great as I try to decide what's best for everyone.

 

IMO, I would try them in one room and see how they do. My worry would be them waking each other up at night but yours are probably out of the night waking phase (all the time night waking) so you probably won't have that problem. My guess is that they will like each other's company and it may cut down on the chaos (the small ones trying to get to the big one).

 

All 3 of my little ones share the same room. The twins will be 3 in January and Ethan will be 2 in Feb. It works for us but we transitioned Ethan into their room when he was 4 months and they were 17 months. All of them are still in cribs but this weekend we're going to transition them all to toddler beds.
I say go for it! I think they will party for a week or so but once the novelty wears off they will do great!

 

One of my old coworkers had her triplets (g/g/g) and her older singleton(b) in the same bedroom to sleep and dress in. They had the other room to play in. It worked really well for her.

 

I would try it but would not be in a hurry to transition out of the cribs. My kids happily stayed in their cribs until 3 and led to a much better transition to beds and staying in them.

 

if you try it, let us know how it goes. we're hoping to add baby #3 to our family this year and s/he'll have to share with the girls so i'd love to hear your experience.

 

I would probably try it too, but don't completely convert the spare bedroom until you are sure this is going to work

 

I still have my older 3 in the same room - it all comes down to routine for getting them to bed I find. Granted they were all 3 and up when we started it tho.

 

Thanks so much for the replies!!! I think we might go ahead and give it a try. It works when we are at the inlaws and I agree, that I'm probably going to keep the twins in their cribs as long as I can. Isabelle was trying to escape hers otherwise she would still be in one also!! So far the twins don't have the inclanation to try to get out. We would also certainly wait before changing the room over. Glad we found this site, it's nice to talk to other moms/dads/families of multiples!!