Lincoln Logs

Ezra and I organized his "toy closet" a few weeks back. He has organizers with drawers and the drawers are labled with the type of toys that belong in the drawer. I made sure that Ezra was part of the cleaning out/organizing project. First of all so that he would start to understand whey it is important to keep the things that the Lord has blessed us with nice. Also, so that he knew it was hard work to clean up big messes! I figured that if he was part of the process he would value and appreciate having a clean play area.

He has two rules when it comes to the drawers. #1- He can only pull one drawer out at a time. #2- He has to put all the toys back in the drawer and in the closet before he can get out anything else. (Thanks Lauren for the idea!)

We told him that if he kept to the rules and had a good attitude that he would be rewarded with a set of Lincoln Logs. He has done a great job keeping up his end of the deal, so we took a trip to Toys R Us and found the Lincoln Logs on sale! (Thank-you Jesus, for your little blessings.) Above are pictures of Ezra's new favorite pass time! They are also a great way for Ross and Ezra to spend together. They have already built numerous different types of buildings.

A side note- Ezra calls them "Linky Logs".=)