Pieces get everywhere. Kids move bits of one toy to another room or play with parts of three things all at once and bring some of, let's say the car set into the kitchen set because those tires might just need a good pan-frying. Organization gets more and more chaotic over time with children's toys, even when they are required to clean up their "work" each and every day.
There's also no better way to get children interested in toys that have been around for a while than mixing up their location or bringing out something they haven't seen in a while. But finding all the pieces, getting everything back where it should go, retiring things that they've out-aged, moving things to new locations and doing all of that while two toddlers undermine every step of your progress by wanting to play with everything you've been working on, means it's a slow process.
I got most of the work done today, with one last area (the basement) to do tomorrow. I love having the toys flipped and changed up, because it always means my children are more easily occupied for longer times for the next week or two.
The Big Boy Update: Book reader. I swapped out the current selection of books with a new selection of choices today. My son took one book out and decided he wanted to "read" it.. He calmly flipped the pages in the big book of collected stories and was quietly happy for the next twenty minutes.
The Tiny Girl Chronicles: "Aw, man..." My daughter has started saying this funny saying. It is such a funny little phrase coming from the mouth of a two-year-old, with the perfect intonation and emphasis.
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