Our stuffed animal friends

We finally got new carpet upstairs, it was installed about a month ago. As we prepared, we had to clear all the miscellaneous stuff from the kids' bedroom floors. We collected all their stuffed animals in our bathtub, where they remain.

Clearly we've got issues here. And I'm torn. On one hand, their rooms feel so much more spacious without the stuffed animals everywhere. I sort of hate to bring it all back and mess things up when their rooms look so nice and neat - we even wore Reed down about the new bookcase that we bought quite a while ago and he wouldn't let us put in his room (as I said before, he really doesn't like change!). I think, well maybe we can get them to pick their favorite (few? dozen?) and find a place to donate the rest. But then I risk the possibility of at least Reed saying "I don't want them anymore" (there's zero chance Amy would say that of the entire collection). That would signify a kind of growing up that I'm not at all prepared for.

So they stay in the tub for now. Good thing we never use it, it makes a lovely storage space!