My favourite corners #2

Ever since I wrote this post, giving a little glimpse to one of my favourite corners in the house, I've been enjoying thinking about the other little places around the house that are my favourites for different reasons. I'd love to think that one day I might take some proper pics of the house, but for now it's much easier to clear one corner for a quick few snaps rather than trying to tidy up all the duplo/ crayons/ farmyard animals/ squashed raisins from every surface (I sense that task would be akin to painting the Forth Bridge).

So here's another of my favourite spots in the house - Arlo's reading corner. We've only lived here for a little while so our house is still very much a work in progress, and I have grand dreams of proper, chunky, fitted shelving in the alcoves either side of the fireplace, but for now these shelves fit in pretty snuggly. Arlo is slowly but surely taking over the space on this bookshelf - you can see in these pics that the shelves used to store useful adult things like books and dvds, but because Arlo can now reach them (and therefore trash them) we keep his stuff on there instead. He's got a shelf for his own burgeoning book collection (a few faves of which you can find here) and another for a selection of toys - I find it helps to keep different toys in different places around the house so you can focus on each on their own for a bit and have a good play, so we rotate the toys on this shelf from time to time so there's always something new to discover.

So this has become one of my favourite places in the house to hang out in with Arlo - he reaches up to choose what he wants to read, and we curl up with a book or ten. Many times I've left him in the front room and found him sat at his end of the sofa, covered in a mound of books, quietly just making his way though the whole shelf's worth. We'll need to clear the top shelf for him too soon, either when his book collection starts overflowing, or his legs grow long enough to so he can reach the top. At this rate, I don't think either are far away.