It Feels Good To Get Organized

So, this morning the boys asked me if they could clean their room (they know that they aren't allowed to get a new set of toys out of the closet unless their bedroom is totally clean). So, while they picked up their toys, I got out the drill and started screwing hooks into the walls. I got the hooks a few weeks ago, and have been putting off installing them until now. It took a while, (because I had to move one of the quilts up higher on the wall) but I got it all done, and now they have places to hang up their winter coats, their sweatshirts, Kolby's backpack, and their construction and fireman hats. I figure hanging up their sweatshirts will free up some space in their dresser and having a place that they can put their coats away on their own will make less cleaning up around the house for me to do. I guess I'll just need to get one more hook, so Eli will have a place to hang up his backpack once he starts going to the preschool classes this winter after he turns 3. Anyway, I thought I'd share -- it always feels good to finish a project.

First Day of School

Kolby was so excited to start preschool again today that he was bouncing off the walls this morning. I took some first-day-of-school pictures, and he had fun making lots of silly faces. He was excited to use his backpack again and to pack a treat. He has two classes that he will be taking three days a week at the YMCA: Kid’s Club and Preschool Movement. In his first class today he said that he played, cleaned up, colored, sang songs, and had snacks. Then in his class in the gym they played an animal game where they pretended to sleep on the ground when a bear come, jump over logs, run really fast from a tiger, and something that has to do with deer antlers (???) – I got all this from his reenactment after we got home. He told me all about how many girl teachers and how many boy teachers he has (he said that he doesn’t know any of his teachers’ names, even though I recognized some of them from when he went to preschool last school year. So he asked me to ask them their names for him when we go back on Wednesday). I was really glad that he was so excited, and that he walked right in and sat down as soon as we got there (which was a relief after having to leave him crying on his teacher’s lap when I dropped him off yesterday for his primary class at church).