Today I finished up some major decorative additions to the kids’ rooms. Bunny and Roo and I spent all day - I’m talking 8 hours with a 1 hour trip to see Grandma’s new kittens - cleaning their rooms up. We took out all of their clothes and reorganized, taking out the things that didn’t fit any more (Roo’s grown two sizes this year) and folding things so that everything could be easily found. Then, we tackled the toys and trash.
For some reason, my son is much more cleanly than my daughter, even though she is 3 years older. She has little … bits of things.. paper, glitter, beads, leaves, all over her room. Roo has legos, k’nex, and train tracks everywhere, but for some reason, he has caught on to the idea of compartmentalizing everything, while Bunny has the tendency to throw everything up in the air and leave it where it falls. It’s a new take on “laissez-faire”, I suppose. Hopefully this will change now, because of our new rearrangement.
After we cleaned Bunny’s room, we moved her bed slightly, and built a tent! It wasn’t easy, but it looks pretty cool. After, we draped the inner poles of the tent with beaded garlands and twinkle lights. It looked really nice!
Today, since Roo’s room was already nice and tidy, we put up lighted paper lanterns and dragonfly lights in his room. He already has a small tent that fits over his mattress on his bed, so this completes the whole “let’s camp outside in our room” theme they both have going.
Awesome two days. I love them so much.
