Bunk bed builder

With baby #3 on the way there are very few things we need.  When Elli turned one we bought another forward facing car seat, so that is taken care of.  The only thing we had left was a bed for the baby to sleep in.  Well, we needed to get a bed for Michael so we could bump everyone up a bed.  We decided to go the bunk bed route because we figure with three kids two of them will share a room.  For a while we've been looking at bunk beds and trying to decide what we wanted to do.  We finally decided to go with an IKEA bunk bed that was unpainted/unstained wood.  We then stained it a very light grey color.  Last Sunday we finally put it together, and Michael enjoyed helping

He kept putting the long screws into random holes and using his toy hammer to hammer the bed.  He also has a toy drill he kept trying to use.  Needless to say whenever we needed another screw we played a game of I-Spy.  

We bought a dresser and nightstand that we still need to stain and put together, so when the room is done I'll post a picture of that.  Last week we had some friends staying with us and we gave up staining anything.  This week Josh has to finish up his senior project so I doubt we'll do any work on it unless I decide to tackle that as part of my nesting (which started a few days ago).  

The only downfall about the bed is that it doesn't seperate.  We can make it work because we'll always have two kids of the same gender, but it would be nice to seperate them if we needed too.  We were able to put it up without the rungs on the ladder so Michael can't climb up anything.  Even though it doesn't come apart, you can't beat spending less than $500 on a bunk bed, dresser, nightstand, and mattress!