Playroom Update

The poor kids- we have a playroom now, but it's been such a gigantic mess that...well, I'm just lucky that they have good imaginations.  They usually find things to play w/, and make up loads of crazy games that they haven't seemed to notice the utter chaos around them.  We have plans to make it more organized and put-together, but that's later down the road- for now, they've been playing w/toys in heaps around the room, or scattered throughout cardboard boxes.

Until today, that is!  The kids were at my parents just overnight, and I went a bit crazy w/organizing- it was really getting to me, this big mess.  (I totally forgot to take pictures, but many of you have seen it in real life- you know it was a mess!)

I set up the room in "stations," hoping that this might make it a lot more easy for the kids to clean up- I could steer the cleaning by asking them to clean up the dolls, or the kitchen stuff, or the cars, etc.  We'll see.

Anyway, here it is! :)

Starting from the view in the last picture, I reorganized the coat rack and shoe box- you have no idea all the weird things I found in that shoe box!

Then, a "station" of Isaac's things:

And then, dress-up stuff...wow, there's a lot of this!  They really have a crazy amount of hats ;)

Across from the coat rack is their puzzles, books, and the dollhouse:

And, a new addition- the car mat rug!  I wanted to get one of these for awhile, and just found one today at Ikea...for $15!  It's huge, and they already loved it:

(Testing it out before bed)

The "coloring station." We got this today when I picked the kids up from my parents- it's actually theirs (my parents), but my mom gave it to us, since we could use it on a daily basis.  I love it!

The bins of tiny-things.  There are bins full of barbies, cars, dinosaurs, you name it.  These were the things that truly needed a home, bc yikes, can they find their way just everywhere around the house!  I found the stacking shelves at a consignment store for $10!

A seating area:

Their kitchen and shopping cart:

And finally, the doll "station:"

I'm hopeful that things will stay more or less in these "stations," just to make playing less chaotic, and cleaning a lot easier.  But we'll see- if nothing else, these pictures can at least let me relive a day when the playroom was neat and in order! :)