This is totally my life right now. Let me explain, point by point. I got out the Halloween 'decorations' (top left, on mantel) today because OMG IT'S OCTOBER. Then I thought it was funny that I put them above the Christmas stockings. The Christmas stockings are there because I retrieved them from their upstairs storage when I received Audrey's new stocking, in order to compare them. (PBK's standards have clearly dropped A LOT since 2007. Just saying.) I put them up instead of back because I had to return Audrey's stocking (a story for another day) and I will want to look at all of them once the replacement gets here.

The monkey chair is there because the other day when I was washing the couch cushion covers after yet another chocolate milk incident, Patrick complained that he just absolutely could not sit on the couch with the covers off the cushions. Instead of telling him to suck it up, I grabbed his chair from upstairs. (It's one of those kids ones that is made all of foam so it's easy to cart around.) The covers are back on the couch cushions, but now there is a train track where the chair used to be in Patrick's room (see also: I'm lazy) so it's still downstairs.

The little bouncy seat on top of the monkey chair is somewhat self-explanatory. It's for Audrey. It takes up a lot of room. I had to plop it on top of there to make a path to the mantel to put the Halloween decor out. Buzz Lightyear, ditto. Patrick's toys are supposed to be contained to three shelves of the bookshelf to the right of this photo, but that is a losing battle.

The pink swing frame is another attempt to get Audrey to sit quietly FOR JUST 10 MINUTES, PLEASE which also usually fails, however, I had to wash the cover because the cat likes it (for way more than 10 minutes) and it had nasty gritty particles that may or may not have been kitty litter, and ew.

There are cheez-its because who doesn't love cheez-its?