It has been a bit of a challenge, as Luquinho can be somewhat of a Dennis the Menace. Most of the recent problems have been related to his desire to decorate his room for Christmas. First, he tried to decorate it with an entire roll of tape, which he was able to clean up easily. From tape he moved to candles. He set the curtains on fire and the room was a mess from the fire extinguisher powder. He spent 5-6 hours cleaning that one up.

At that point, I decided to help decorate and bought them a small Christmas tree and we made some ornaments. That went well until he decided to paint them, but thankfully he only made a small mess with the paint.

Since then, things have calmed down. The boys were even able to go for 2 weeks straight of keeping their room clean. So they have won the reward of painting the walls in their room. They are excited about it and by process of elimination they have picked blue and orange as the colors they would like. Red was too violent, yellow and brown were too disgusting, etc. So, blue and orange were all that were left. The process of painting may be another adventure; however, hopefully, it will give them more appreciation for their room and cleanliness.