Xavier's New Office
Greetings to everyone.
Xavier's room has become cluttered, and Middle Earth something of a mess most of the time. The clutter and strewn-about toys in Middle Earth were (mostly) tolerable, since we decided that was Xavier's main play area. His room, however, was a different matter altogether.
Rebecca invested in two translucent storage containers as a test to contain Middle Earths creeping dishevelment. We also decided to move Xavier's table out of his room. He never used it and it was a breeding ground, perhaps the wellspring of all the clutter in his room; certainly the inspiration for it at least.
We thought to move the desk and chairs to Middle Earth and move his toy bins and new toy containers into his room. Then we had a different idea, one I was hesitant to agree to.
We thought move the desk and chairs to my office. There Xavier could play while I worked. It was an intriguing idea, but my office was already cluttered to a threshold of annoyance—and the desk would mean tighter space.
We moved some things around in my office, got rid of the large CRT taking up space in a corner while harboring spider nests and rearranged two pieces of furniture. His desk fit in perfectly.
Instantly, Xavier loaded his desk with two items: a computer-looking play and learn toy and a ten key calculator with paper roll. The ten key was his version of the printer to the right of my computer.
He often sits there while I work. He writes bills and prints me out numbers on his printer. While the roofers were working, we had a rain storm and the unfinished roof leaked above his desk. He sat down (after we cleaned up the mess) and wrote out checks to pay for the roof leak, just like Daddy sits and writes checks to pay other things at his desk.
When asked at school what he wanted to do when he grew up, he responded with "I want to grow up big like Daddy and have fun and work with him in his office."