A Play Room

We have made the bambini a play room! As some Fans know (and some have seen), we have a large-ish crawl space off of our bedroom upstairs, over the porch. When we moved in, it was a wasteland, but now it's a veritable Narnia (without the awful Snow Queen): periwinkle blue walls, wide pine plank floors, and with lights and outlets. It's only flaw, really, was that it gets chilly in there in the winter months (it's well insulated now, but the window is sort of a disaster). Most of Joe and Clara's toys live in the living room--right where we'll be putting the Christmas tree next weekend. So in wrestling with where to move things, Julie got a bee in her bonnet while cleaning yesterday and whipped this space up into a little play room (the upstairs was a disaster for a while!). We'll be moving the little two shelf bookcase from the bambini's room up there, so that the toy shelf in the living room can go to their room, and the two red buckets that flank it can go to the corner of the living room. There's a rug in there now, and a space heater, and it's really rather cozy. Certainly it's more than tolerable for playing, and we always thought it was the perfect little play spot for a little person.