It’s so funny.  You keep the play-do and crayons in the closet, out of sight, and the boys can’t wait to play with them.  You become more efficient, buying a standing multi-tiered see-through bin for storage of all arts and crafts so that you know what you have and what you need, and you place that  said storage in plain sight in the kitchen.  What happens next?  Our once color happy fiends, who you could not say the word “color” around without then having to color for 25 minutes, have become artists no longer.

Nicholas and Dexter are no longer excited by crayons and butcher paper.  They no longer love to shoot play-doh through tubes.   The saying “out of sight, out of mind” is wrong.  It should be “out of sight – want to play with,  in line of sight – no longer interested”.   Why is that?  Why are we excited more by those things that remain hidden?  Maybe Joel and I should buy a huge wooden cabinet, and put all the toys inside.  Then every day would be a special day of what do we want to play with inside the magic cabinet.  Actually, that is not such a bad idea.  My dining room table might just be usable then.

So, enjoy the following photos of Nic and I.  We had so much fun that day.  It’s amazing what a little “nose job” can do for your relationship with your son.  ;)