Barbie has been a bad, bad girl....

Now that the girls are roomies, they often willingly head up to their room to play a plethora of imaginery games Ryan concocts. The seemingly peaceful quiet time that ensues is often a double edged sword. Like every parent out there, the wise little voice in the back of your head starts flying the red flag if more than 15 minutes passes without so much a loud noise or fight.  Often I will come up to find something like this happening:
Or, I'm met at the top of the stairs or the doorway with a "mom, we're not doing anything wrong in here....go back downstairs" - don't be fooled, this isn't Ryan welcoming me into her room, rather she is about .5 seconds away from shutting the door on me so I won't enter.

God forbid they play in their actual clothes for the day.....it's an unspoken rule that the moment you cross the room threshold, you MUST change into a 'party dress', 'princess dress' or pajamas.

The theives raid the house in search of baskets...
And, as I learned yesterday, apparently when the Barbies/Princesses are bad girls, they are thrown in jail...
This would be Reese's foot enforcing the punishment
You load as many perps as the jail will hold, exerting your almighty 4 year old force:
If all else fails, you put your whole body into it....I swear we don't let them watch Prison Break:
Rest assured, after adding a few more reinforcements....
...the girls were freed and are currently enjoying the life of leisure again.
And since we're on the subject of the girls' room....my latest garage sale finds.  I had wanted the Pottery Barn wall shelf for books for years but never pulled the trigger on the $100+ price tag (depending on which one you got) AND I had wanted to install a second bar for hanging clothes in the closet now that they are sharing (and professional estimates to make the closet all fancy were $400-$600).  With that in mind, I had my eye peeled whenever I went to Goodwill or a garage sale.  A few weeks ago, Reese and I stumbled upon a cute little house, not far from us (on a Wednesday sale nonetheless) and immediately saw my bookshelf (actually Pottern Barn too) and a quilt hanger (Pottery Barn as well).  They were going for $60 total, I countered with $40....we settled on $45.  And home they went:
Because the quilt holder was meant to hold a quilt (duh), when hung flush against the wall, you couldn't hang a hanger straight on (they had to be angled) so Grant drilled some thick pieces of wood directly to the wall and then afixed our new addition directly to that to give us about a 4 inch seperation which now allows hangers to fit as they were intended. The girls are in heaven - they play dressup and 'store' non-stop now that they have easy access.
I've already given up separating clothes by child....I had a lovely order going for all of 10 minutes one day.  Now it's just a smorgasbord of randomness and often you'll find Reese sporting 4T and 5T shirts and Ryan shimming into 2T/3T skirts.    At least they're cool with the sharing.....for now anyway.