cleaning up

kaleb is a horizontal toy player...meaning that he can't just stay in one spot and play with his toys.  he spreads them all over one space and instead of cleaning up and then getting new toys out to play with, he leaves the mess and goes to find a new, cleaner spot to spread more toys.  our whole house is covered with his toys.  covered.  lately, he has been throwing major tantrums when i ask him to clean up.  i tell him to pick up some cards and he cries for almost a full half hour before he finally realizes i'm serious about throwing them away if he doesn't clean up.

today i wanted to vaccum the upstairs level, which is all of the bedrooms.  i tell kaleb that he has to clean up his {horrendously messy} room and anything left on the floor with go in the garbage.  minutes later i peek in his room and think, "wow, he really cleaned up good"  and then i step into the room and see this:

a bunch of toys stacked on the bed.  apparently these are the ones he isn't finished playing with yet.

so i laugh to myself as i vaccum and then i go into my bedroom (it was full of his toys as well.  horizontal toy spreading i tell you) and the floor is spick and span but the couch...

again, he isn't done with these yet.

i didn't know whether to yell at him or to snuggle him for being such a smarty pants.  should be interesting when he tries to climb into bed tonight though.