The Florida Gatchel Daily: New Playroom, Fingerpainting and LOTS of play!

The excitement to report for Florida Gatchel headquarters this weekend is that we decided to turn the front room into a play room! Grant and I have been discussing this for a long time now because the toys were starting to take over the whole house. Some in the front, most in our living room, some in their room.... It was kind of getting out of hand. We wanted the kids to feel like they had a place that was theirs, and we also wanted to feel like we could start to take back the rest of the house a little bit, too.... So we did!

I am so excited with the results! In the process Grant and I decided to totally reclaim the living room again. I will get some pictures of that tomorrow. But there's lots of pictures below of the new playroom! And in order to start to get it around, the first big thing we decided to do was let the kids make the first piece of artwork for the walls. So we invited Miesje and Coen over and got to work finger painting! What a blast that was! And who thought you'd have to convince kids to get dirty? Mikayla was no problem, but it took a little bit to convince Noah to dig in. Once he did though - well you'll have to see for yourself :)

We had a great weekend. Both Grant and I said we're totally wiped out but we feel so accomplished. I also worked some the past few days earlier in the week cleaning out the kitchen, getting a bunch of stuff ready to go to Goodwill and re-organizing in there, so I actually feel like the front half of the house (not including our bedroom) is like a sparkly new house at this point ;-) Now only the spare room, the kids room and our bedroom to tackle which is slowly but surely on this week's agenda. I will try to take some pictures of the playroom in its natural state in the morning before its daily destruction occurs, too ;-) More tomorrow!