But for this post, I wanted to start sharing some of the things we did over the summer. One big change we made in the house was to buy Ryker a twin mattress (moving him out of the tiny toddler bed) and move Gwyneth's twin mattress into his room. We decided to try this room-sharing so that we could use Gwyneth's room as a nursery after Baby #3 is ready to move out of our room eventually.
I also wanted to make the new shared sibling room a little more "big kid" style instead of baby or toddler style. So we got rid of all the baby and toddler toys and decorations on the shelf. I moved the rocking chair out and planned to put together a Reading Nook in the corner. One of the craft projects that the kids and I did this summer was an alphabet caterpillar. After we found a caterpillar in one our container plants outside, we talked a lot about caterpillars and butterflies. Unfortunately, when I looked up our brown and black caterpillar friend on the internet, it turned out that he was destined to become a boring brown moth, not a colorful butterfly. Oh well. It did give me the project idea for a construction paper alphabet caterpillar to tape to the wall for the Reading Nook.
Today I kept Gwyneth home from school because she has a runny nose and noisy cough. Luckily she was in good spirits and still had an appetite, so today was kind of a play day/unschooling day. We finally set up the Reading corner and the kids had a blast with their reading/play tent. There is a small corner shelf for books behind the tent that they can reach through the tent's back door.
Of course, after this first, sweet picture was taken, a major fight occurred inside the tent and I had to put in place a "one-kid-in-the-tent-at-a-time" rule...
