Birthday parties in the dining room

Mommy tries to keep the dining room a sacred, clean, kid free space in her home. It is full of breakable dishes and I would rather that the dishes remain intact. Well, Jackson and Shane have a keen sense for this type of stuff and love to play in the dining room. There is a closet that they can hide in and chairs that they can re-arrange. Last night, they had a "birthday party" in the dining room and moved all 12 chairs against the windows for their "friends". But their "Friends" liked to jump from chair to chair while singing happy birthday. You can imagine, how mommy was at this site- not reacting very well and trying to get the boys to calm down and put the chairs away resulted in them getting play dishes out and setting the table complete with cookies and pizza for everyone. To their benefit- they were using their imaginations and had a great time and Shane did a great job of cleaning up.