Wednesday: O:CtH - guest room

It's officially finished!  It's been dusted, vacuumed, and decluttered.  The furniture was moved.  And so, I present to you...the Guest Room!  (I don't have pictures from the worst of it...but just imagine the whole floor covered in some game and the edges piled a little higher.) 

From the door:

 

From the window:

I don't have a full picture of the game closet before, but it was full.  Not really messy, but I added three shelves on the left side and got rid of several games so that it isn't so full anymore.  

Now...to keep it clean. :D  Next up, I'm taking Annette's advice and tackling something small: the purple bathroom. 

Monday: game closet

Today's O:CtH project was to deal with the game closet.  It also involved adding some shelving that I've been waiting to do for about two years now.

I got the laundry started and then started on the game closet.  I had some of the parts I needed, but had to make a stop at Lowes.  Then after getting one rod up I realized that I needed better drywall anchors because I only had one stud...and so I went back to Lowes.  It felt like the days of my childhood, helping Dad do the house chores and going to the hardware store multiple times.  I was also surprised when I took a break near the end only to realize it was already 11am.

I don't have a before picture.  I'll wait on the after picture until I do the whole room.  The closet looks better and the games are more accessible.  However, the only reason it has a bit of room in it now is because I got rid of several games (vs having more room because the games are stored better.)  I expect it'll be good for a few years until it fills up again, at which point Joshua will have outgrown some of the younger games and we can get rid of those.  I'm not sure what we'll do after that, but we'll deal with that then.

It was also exercise day for the boys and they elected to run in the rain.  Joshua loved it; Isaac put up with it.  I gave him an alternative, but it was warm out and I was glad he elected to run.

Saturday: orchard and corn maze

Today we picked up Aunt C and went to the apple orchard and the corn maze.  I was trying not to get too many apples but absolutely did.

Joshua has one lost tooth, one front wiggly tooth, and a missing side tooth.  Apples were tricky.

Then we went to the corn maze.  It was a little longer than Joshua wanted it to be, but I think everyone enjoyed it.  It was the perfect day to be outside, so that helped.

Friday: mop

 Ben and Isaac were horsing around, and Isaac decided it would be a good idea to open Ben's water bottle to get things wet.  So Ben used Isaac as a mop; Isaac was laughing so hard.

Thursday: behavior report

We received a behavior report for Isaac today.  This is the first one he's ever gotten, so I don't know if it's a new system or if it's just that he's never gotten one before.

"Behavior: Respectful Behavior

Recognized By: K. GRUPPEN

Notes: I am so pleased that Isaac is in my class this year. He is such a respectful kid. Today he was working in a small group that required some extra patience. He remained calm and gentle throughout the work time. I'm so proud of him :)"

Tuesday: morning surprise

When I woke up this morning, I found that the boys had cleaned off the table.  It was a part I told them they didn't have to clean up because they were still working on a project, but apparently they decided that they were done with the project and just cleaned it up.

I reciprocated their kindness by not making them clean as long for their evening chores.

Monday: photos of nothing

Over the summer Isaac colored water, froze it, and then froze it in bigger chunks.  It was getting in the way in the freezer, so I melted it today.

The tooth fairy keeps forgetting to give Joshua money for his tooth, so he finally left a note to remind me to tell the tooth fairy.

It poured around noon!  We've really needed the rain, so that was good.  It was a lovely sound.

I found Tornado camouflaged as laundry.

I was looking through my old blog pictures for my new digital picture frame, and there are a lot of Flurry.  It's a good thing the kids aren't around as much so that I get more pictures of Tornado and Horizon.