Sunday

Oliver helped Eric test if the electricity was on before Eric started working on our lightswitch. We can now have our porch light and our living room light on at the same time! Very exciting news here :)

Oliver woke up not feeling well today. We had a quiet day at home. He played in his car quite a bit. We are going to spend another quiet day at home tomorrow so that he gets back up to 100%.

Have a great week everyone!

New Dryer Vent!

Lisa used a metal detector to search our backyard for treasures (in the rain). She found 2 nails and one pop-tab.

72 years of the walls of our house. We (meaning Eric and Bill) cut the hole for the dryer vent- we had to go buy a bigger drill bit because the normal one wouldn't go far enough.
I went outside and looked in the hole they had cut and Eric and Oliver peeked outside. Oliver thought it was pretty funny to be able to see me through the hole.

We had a relaxing day and are so glad that our dryer finally vents outside now! No more lint in the basement. :)

Upstairs

Here are pictures of our upstairs put back together. We still need to do a second coat on the wall in the following picture.





We need to do a second coat on the two short walls in this picture (the one on the left is a continuation of the wall from the first picture). Then we need to paint 2 coats on the angled window wall. We also bought new trim that we need to paint and then put up around the window and the air conditioner.


We plan to do a few more things up there before we are finished with it. We want to replace all of the outlets & switches and covers with white ones. They are all kindof a dingy cream right now with a lot of old paint all over them. We also will finish putting up the baseboard, there are a few spots that don't have it up or that it is just sitting there. We plan to paint all of the trim around the doors (3) and the doors themselves. I'm sure we'll think of a few more things to do here and there, but we are all 3 very happy with the results so far.

Oliver loved playing up there tonight while we were putting all the furniture back in its place after painting. He had all of his toys out and had a blast.

I figured I better add a picture of Oliver so here is one of him coloring today. He was able to get out of the chair by himself today without falling :)


Happy Friday everyone!!

Aunt Cookie

Oliver received a package in the mail today. It was from Aunt Cookie... (she resides in Dewar). He was the lucky recipient of a whole bunch of sugar cookies. They came with specific instructions that Oliver could have one whenever he wanted and that I had to post proof that we really gave him a cookie. :) Thanks Aunt Cookie (PS someone's birthday is in April and I think they may receive a package from Aunt Cake and Uncle Chocolate)

We had another warm day- in the 60s. It rained in the morning and the evening, but the day time was perfect. We went outside for a walk. We also painted more tonight- I was all excited to get the second coat on the remaining walls when I realized we were going to need more paint.... So I asked Eric to go to Menards and get another gallon. About 10 minutes later, my phone rings: "So do you want to hear something funny?" Yep- Menards was out of the paint we were using and aren't expecting a shipment until the 21st. So we'll be putting the upstairs back together without it being fully painted. We have 2 walls left to do the second coat and one wall left to do 2 coats. I will post some pictures of the semi-finished product tomorrow after we do a little clean up and rearranging.

Eric's parents are coming to visit for the weekend and we are excited about that.

Happy Friday Eve!

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesday

Wanting me to let him play with the camera.

What happens when I tell him he can't play with the camera.

After naptime, Oliver loves to crawl on the cot I have for the little boy I watch. I'm pretty sure it is one of the highlights of his day.

This morning Oliver and I went to the library for baby story time. It was fun, but a bit overwhelming. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say there was at least 40 kids, 2 & under there. It was almost 50 degrees here so we went for a long walk outside in the afternoon. I saw it is supposed to get into the 60s in the next few days, but with that comes rain. Hopefully we'll have a bit of clear skies so we can get outside and enjoy the warm temps.

I am on night 3 of painting. I have 3 walls done upstairs and I believe 8 left to do. I think it is looking pretty good, I'll post some pictures when I get it finished. Tomorrow night we should get a lot done because Eric will be finished with a presentation he's doing tomorrow afternoon and he'll be able to help. Well I'm going to go paint 1 or 2 more walls.

Success!

I finished painting the ceiling and angled walls upstairs. I am glad to have that done and am looking forward to more exciting painting with color possibly tomorrow. We took Oliver to the Infant Cognition Lab on campus. They do little activities with Oliver and observe what he does. Tonight is short (and late)- I still need to go clean up the paint, brush, and roller.