A clean up of the boys room....

This past weekend we took apart the boys room and reorganized it. It took us the entire weekened but I think that the end result was worth it. I have the before and after pictures to prove it. LOL....
This is their room before. Who knew that two little boys could make such a mess. I promise that I have had them clean their room everyday.

This is a shot of our living room after we emptied the boys room, so much stuff, arrgh!!!!

Now the after shots.... The boys loved setting their beds in the new spot. As you can see they are a little on the tired side, so much work.

Their closet.....after

The toy section.....after

The play table section.

The boys are having a great time in the room because they have everything in reach. They also learned a lesson about being a little more on the diligent side of cleaning. They do not want to go throught that again.

Oh Look What I have been doing...As many of you that read this blog know that I live in a small apartment with not much storage room. So any way that we can find more we usually jump on it. We found these at Target and we love them. They are so sturdy. The boys even have a set in their room. It has given so much more room to our little school house here. The boys are finding it much easier to locate everything on their own to. I am trying to organize everything around here for the new school year. When it is done I will make sure to share with everyone how it looks. Have a great day!

I am playing a little bit of catch up on the photos now. Things have been crazy busy around here. I just have not had a whole lot of time to put these up, so they are from the last couple of weeks.
This first on is of Gabe. He really enjoys board games now. He loves to sit and play them with his imaginary friend. He says that she is made out of air. LOL
My big guy, he is growing up so fast. It is hard to believe that he is almost 8. I love watching him learn. He gets so excited that he rarely stays seated. Now if I can actually get him to finish a project that he starts we will be doing good. Any ideas?

Now my little guy with his developmental issues is hard to stay in one spot on doing his work. If he does not like what he is doing it becomes even more of a challenge to get it done. I finally found with him though if I have him stand at the Kitchen counter he will actually do the work with out a fight. WOOOHOOOO!!! A solution that I can use. That is since I end up spending most of the day in the kitchen anyways. I can my work done and do school work with him.
Gabe for sensory work the other day played with his playdough. We are in spring and decided that he needs to make a snowman. LoL I guess that has to do with living in South Florida he has no clue when snowman are actually around.
Well this picture is for you Kate. See Gabe is upside down and smiling. This is a picture that they made together and I asked Gabe to stand next to Sam so I could take the picture. He decided that he needed to lay down. Silly boy. The picture is their "Great Barrier Reef" since we are studdying Australia. It was great Sam went through the book on the Great Barrier Reef and was learning so much about the creatures that live there. I love homeschooling. I mean an art project took on a whole new life it was great.


These two are of my silly boys deciding that they need to be like their Daddy. They wanted to see what they looked like in his paints. Such cuties they are. Their dad is really tall so the pants were really long on them.

Sam was cleaning up his desk the other day and Gabe really wanted to help. Cleaning up his desk is really only a one person job, so instead of telling him that he got creative. Sam put his art box on the floor and had Gabe organize that. Gabe was so happy to have such a special job. It was wonderful to see him come up with a solution on his own.
Here is a couple of the art projects that Sam has done for Australia. The first one is of the X-ray art. It was a type that Aboriginals would do. The second one also done by aboriginals is called bark art. In our case we took some cardboard instead of the bark. Sam covered it with his oil pastels in all different colors. Then he painted over it in black paint. Once he was done that he scratched a picture into it so the oil pastels showed through.

Even though Gabe does not look so happy I still had to share a picture of them doing their favorite thing. Reading.

Well that is it for now, have a great day!

Things have been so crazy around here that unfortunetly I have not been getting to the blog. We have been having so much fun though that I have a bunch of pictures to show everyone. We had a day of kitchen science and the kids absolutly loved it. Look at the concentration on Sam's face. That is just so cute.
Gabe decided to rub some of the ingedients on his hand and it started fizzing up (I know that is kind of hard to tell but that is what the picture is.) He thought that was the coolest thing. Oh and you love the washer/dryer in my living room. To funny. Our closet that it is in needs to be fixed so we have it sitting there for now. I have tried to make it less of an eye sore by letting the kids put their magnets on it. The side is covered with paintings from Gabe. Very pretty. LOL
The Other day I was just not up for school and neither were the kids, So I cancelled it. We had a stay in your pajamas all day and play day. They loved it. We played games, watched shows, and read books. It was a really nice day, so peaceful, lots of laughing. I love this next picture because the kids tried teaming up against me on the game of Sequence for Kids. They wanted to beat me so bad it was funny. It was split on how many times we won with Gabe winning all. He traded teams each round. LOL
While I made lunch that day the played dominios setting up tracks to knock down. It is always so nice to see how they play together.
They even took some time to get some studying in together.
This is something that we did yesterday. I found a recipe for Kool-aid playdough here. I made some up for the boys and they had a blast with it. It kept them busy for a while so I was able to get some work done.

Gabe spent some time working on cutting. As you can see from the picture he still needs to work on it more, but we are getting there. He is at least making an attempt to hold the scissors correctly when we tell him. I try to make it fun for him by getting the project for him to cut from here then he has a toy to play with when he is done.

Sam has spent a lot of time researching about Australia. He also has wanted to learn about the Human body So he has been spending lots of time studying that to.
In his Geography lessons this week there was a lesson on how to make your own compass. He even showed his brother how to do it. It was a lot of fun.

Well This past week has been kind of emotional for Sam on animals. We were told by my grandmother that she had to put here dog Sparkie to sleep. Sam was very close to that dog so he took it very hard. Then this weekend we found this bird out side our apartment. We think that it had a broken leg because it was not moving away. Dh tried to catch it so that we could take it to a shelter to heal but when he went to grab it, the bird flew to the ground. Sam and his dad spent a while trying to catch it but unfortunetly in the end it got away. Sam of course is very worried about the poor bird. He is just so sweet sometimes.

Suddenly Gabe has gotten an obsession with my bed. Wether he plays in it or makes it he wants to be there. The top picture was when he insisted making my bed alone. I said ok and left to do something else. I heard someone help. When I went back in this is the scene I found. He said the blanket attacked him. Silly boy. Yesterday I started to clean out the Game closet and that is when he thought it would be the perfect time to play on the bed. After all what a better way to hide stuffed animals, right.
He did do some cleaning of his own this week. He gave his bath toys a bath of their own. He loves doing this.
Well that is it for now. I will try to be back this weekend to get caught up on the rest. I have to do my book list still. The boys made boomerangs today and I wanted to share pictures of that. Also I got tagged so I need to do that. So much to do so little time. Hope everyone has a great day.