Bedroom Update

Photos coming soon...

Bailey, helping to hold paper bags in place while Andrew blew the insulation down the wall. This particular wall is in the music room, and we experienced our own little indoor snowstorm when the insulation blew PAST the paper and out the sides.

Insulation has been blown into the walls downstairs, and placed in the walls upstairs. We had a minor set-back last week with the discovery of a leaking roof...7 contractors and $200 later, it's repaired and we're back on track!

Wiring has been complete, bring the total number of outlets in the room to more than 1, less than 5 (I can't remember how many, exactly...).

The next phase is SHEETROCK!!!

In the meantime, the music room has been transformed with the addition of baseboards and insulation; the study also has new baseboards and insulation, and Ernest Pearson (who apparently used to live here) could come to claim his math book, except he died in May of 1994. Some people will go to any length to get out of doing their math!!

In addition to the Algebra book, we also found another hymn book - except this one's not in great shape; and the corner to a newspaper's classified section. (Anyone up for a diamond wedding set - $10!) We're still looking for gold in the walls..... And I'll post photos as soon as they're downloaded from my camera, and not the phone.

Sweet Caroline

Today, my Sweet Caroline is 2. She is truly a joy to have in our family. She loves Bailey, loves babies (I love watching her try to rock her baby doll to sleep...), LOVES pajamas (her idea of getting dressed is to change from one pair of pajamas to another - and yes, she's wearing a pajama top in the photo...), wants so much to be a big kid, and loves books. She also adores nursery. She literally dragged me down the hall a few weeks ago so that she could go to class. I was glad someone was there!

She is now sleeping in her crib - minus one side, effectively turning it into a toddler bed. She stays in bed, because if she doesn't, she falls on the floor. She is now out of diapers - even at night time. Caroline loves to have pig-tails put into her curly hair, and brings me the "tails" frequently. She doesn't like to keep them in, because it's more fun to have mom put them BACK in than to just leave them alone.

Caroline also loves "shoe-es". Hers, mine, LeGrand's, she doesn't care. She puts her "Shoe-es" on first thing after waking up, and is disappointed when she can't find them. Sometimes to the point of tears.

Some of my favorite words that she says include:
Shoe-es, juicy-juice, cheesy-cheese, boot-es, and Mommy-Ah

I love that she finds joy in life, and that she wants to have her picture taken - but only because she wants to see it right away. She won't hold still long enough to really get a good picture...

Recently she split her chin open falling onto the sunroom floor. The idea of "aidy-aids" was fantastic, until she realized they had to STAY on her chin or she would bleedy-bleed all over the floor. Then she wasn't such a fan. These ones lasted most of the day. Then, I think they started to itch, so she took them off. I don't know if she put them in the garbage or not...

Caroline is one of the best helpers. She loves to throw anything away, making her an ideal helper when diaper changing time comes around! She also hates to be wet, sticky, dirty, or in any way less than clean. If her clothes get so much as a speck of dirt on them, she changes them. Today, I stuck the hair dryer up her shirt to dry it so that she'd keep it on! This child is going to drive me nuts with her OCD! Still, I love her dearly and am so grateful she's part of our family.

So, Carolina - Happy Birthday! I hope you have fun today!

a total photo dump

Bailey is now 9 months old. Her last well child check weighed her in at 17.5 lbs (24th%), and 27 inches tall (28th%). She is always on the go. She beelines for the stairs if we leave the door open, and is rather quick getting to the top. She hasn't mastered coming down the stairs yet, but... that will come.

Bailey loves Caroline. Caroline calls Bailey, "Boo". The two of them spend a lot of time laughing at each other. I love it.

School... Is going well. We still have our ups and downs, but for the most part, we are all enjoying it. The children love to go to Co-Op on Fridays, where we have the chance to be out of the house and doing other things with other people. (Hence, the name, Co-Op.) Our latest venture was to the fire station. LeGrand and Savannah and Margaret loved it. Caroline hated it. She loved the trucks, did not want to have anything to do with getting up there and actually seeing the truck. LeGrand thought it was pretty cool that he could squirt the fire hose...

I don't want to be on the fire truck!!!

All the children in our little co-op. Age range is from 3 to 10. It's tons of fun!

The house... We had a flood. Margaret was so sweet when she saw the water... Her comment was, "Um... I'll go get more towels." I'm pretty sure all the towels were being used. Here are some photos.

I put my short pants and my hot pink boots on to wade through 4 inches of water. Thank goodness the boots were rubber, it took us a few minutes to get the surge protector out of the water. 

Even Margaret's doll house had water in the basement! Hers was a little easier to clean out though.