Learning to Clean Up

I told Natalie not to get her brother all riled up before going to bed and this is what they do, play with swords. Of course, when I tell Eric it's time for bed, he throws himself and his swords to the ground. *SIGH*

They were in the gameroom when this picture was taken. Notice that the gameroom is fairly clean, meaning that you can see the carpet and you can walk around without hurting yourself. That is not usually the case. One of Eric's favorite pastimes is to take one of the kids' games, open it, and play with the contents. He isn't very neat and orderly when he does this. He also doesn't put away one game before opening up the next one. This means that for most of the week, the gameroom is a huge mess. Even if we try to clean it up, as soon as he's left alone, the gameroom is a mess again. When he walks into the gameroom, he almost always says, "The gameroom is a mess!" as he carefully steps around the stuff strewn all over the floor. His siblings are getting tired of cleaning up his messes. Patrick and I are trying to teach him to clean his own messes. Until then, the gameroom will be a mess.