Kid Cave

As each day passes my beautiful children grow, and grow......and grow. Jer and I built this house nearly 7 years ago in the months before we got married. At the time the 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and spacious living areas seemed more than adequate, the fact that we had no basement to grow into seemed irrelivent, because we had a 3-5 year plan to move on to some place bigger. We never intended to have four children in this house. Yet, here we are. It's not bad for the most part, we have plenty of bedroom space, the boys have bunk beds and the twins still share a room half blue, half pink. The problem we've run into is there's no where to play. During the summer months we use our amazing backyard as an extension of our house, and the kids can play outside safely for hours. However, winter is cold, and were continually running into the problem of no where to play, that's when we came up with the "kid cave" Jack actually named it that and it's stuck. You know that little room under the stairs? The one that would actually lead to the basement if we had one? Well, I cleaned it out shortly after Christmas and hired an electrician to install a couple of lights and a switch and VOLLA! The kid cave was born.
I told the kids they could paint hand prints on the walls and then totally forgot about it....or maybe blocked it out, the combination of kids and paint really make me nervous. Either way, last week Jack with his stellar memory and all reminded me of my promise again. So we packed up and went to the craft store, everybody picked out their paint color (would you believe they had no pink?!)

We waited for Jeramie to come home, I needed all the help I could get with wet paint all over. It was great, everybody enjoyed it, even Jer and I got in on the action. We stripped the kids down to minimize the paint damage and let them go! When they finished we dumped them one by one into the tub.
Anyway, the Kid Cave is born, I love it, the kids can play all day, drag toys all over and if someone comes over I can quickly shove all the toys into the cave and shut the door!And the house is mine again and no one is the wiser. So until we can find a way to move into something that meets our needs a little better we're making use of every square inch of our great little house!