I'm seeing all sorts of West Coast spring pictures in my Facebook feed these days and after this afternoon's full on blizzard (BLIZZARD), I'm jealous. Jealous jealous jealous! I know I can be patient and that spring will arrive and I know that before we know it we'll be enjoying the cool of the basement, but ... I don't want to wait any longer! But I also don't want to wish time away, namely because that means we lose much needed baby prep time and valuable time with just two kids.
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| before: tile floors, icky grout, old jet tub, old vanity... |
The bathroom is DONE, and it looks ah-mazing. Really, really amazing. I'm going to try to get a before picture from our house tour on move-in day (how'd we forget to take a "before"pic?!). We just need a shower curtain, some organization in the drawers and cupboards (and repopulation of stuff)
and Steve is going to make a cabinet for above the toilet... and then it is done done and done. Priority here soon is getting Hendrik and Alana in a room together which means painting the dark somber grey off her walls and just ripping the bandaid and throwing them in there together. Hopefully this can happen by next weekend - no, not hopefully; it WILL happen by next weekend because I need this baby's room to start coming together pronto. I'm 35 weeks on Monday (!!!!!), so it might be nice to have some diapers available and a few clothes in drawers and such (you know, just
maybe).
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| after: new floor, re-fabbed vanity, new counter, new sink, new nicely subway-tiled tub... looks amazing! |
Easter! Watching the kids hunt for Easter eggs is one of the best things ever... they love it and we love it. They were spoiled with chocolate and candy and Indigo gift certificates and treats from Grandma and Grandpa B (both kids were running around like wild monkeys shouting "Indigo out-ya-go!!" after their "calming" warm bath tonight - hilarrrrrrious) - and they even shared some of their Lindt goods with mom and dad. The day after the Easter bunny made his/(and)/her appearance another special visitor came... the tooth fairy! While I got my haircut last week (I love it -
went here, will keep going
here) Steve took the kids to the park, where Hendrik lost his first pearly white. He was nervous at first, and then hurrah! excitement. He's been staying up late reading Lego Chima books and getting up earlier than usual, so it was an extra early morning that day - to tell us that the tooth fairy had somehow managed to access his tooth without him waking up (I remember wondering how the tooth fairy did that too).
We had a "family field trip day" on Friday and took the kids to the
sugar shack, and it was serious fun. They would have stayed on the tire swing all day - and I thought it would have been Hendrik's highlight-of-the-day for sure; but the meal apparently trumped the outdoor fun - a plate of pancakes, sausages, ham, baked beans, canned fruit, and home fries, all with as much maple syrup as you want... chowing that down that took home the first place moment of his day (mine too). My first place moment of
this day is finishing (I think) my last assignment of the semester - wahoo yahoo! I still have some reading to do and a few comments to post online (prior to my last online class of the term), but as far as big assignments go... I think I'm done! This means I can just move on to the next thing which is prepping for a Performance Coach workshop I'm doing in June (with a newborn, yes) - but I'll take some time away from must-do school / professional development stuff (I will I will I will). Okay, I will also go and make
Good Night Waffles now (if you have a waffle maker - you're welcome) as I promised the kids we'd have waffles in the a.m. Hopefully we don't wake up to more snow!
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| working intently on the latest masterpiece craft |
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| tooth missing! |
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| our girl |
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| asked them to do this... it looks good on them! |
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