From one mother to another...

this may be the most difficult thing I've ever watched. It's worth it though - don't worry there's a happy ending. All the instructors listed on the website (for TX) are in Dallas county. Watch, and try not to cry - it'll be OK.

http://www.childdrowningprevention.com/index.html

Cuttin', Cuttin', Cuttin'

CJ's sure the trim work is a never ending process. He put in a lot of hours this weekend. About 8am-midnight on saturday, and 10am-8:30pm on sunday. There's still more to do. But here's the progress so far...

Well,

the brick layers are done.

Yee Haw!

Let's go racing boys!

Images by Copperstate Racing

Image by RaceGear.com

Dale Earnhardt Jr 2008

Just a little

has changed since saturday at noon. They finished the ONE gable. Looks good, eh? Yes, I said ONE - not all three. We're out of materials. Yes, that's bad. Instead of needing about $500 more (like we thought) we're going to need about $1300 more. *Sigh* Funny how fast the money goes. Anyway, yesterday he did a bunch of cleanup work around the house and set three of the doors. More of the same for this week - set doors, build closets, and set the kitchen cabinets when they arrive.


Yes, the door is straight. I must have been crooked. haha

Moving right along.

I took the guys lunch today and of course took more pics....

The back of the garage looks funny to me. Like there's a seam running right down the middle of it and there's two different color brick or something. CJ says it's a line in the brick called (uh, something), anyway he says once the brick is washed and everything is more dry it won't look so obvious. Whatever.

I'm sure I'll have more pics tomorrow!

Look! Look! Look!

We have BRICK!

And here's the house in paint chips.

The Master bedroom and both baths will be in greens.

My Play room and Tanner's room will be in a nice denim blue.

Grace's room is pink and yellow.

And Morgan's room (there's no paint chips on his room) is basically the same as the living/kitchen.

The chip off to the left side will be the ceilings, doors, and trim.


CJ is finishing the siding on saturday (hopefully). He's planning to set the doors and start building the closets sunday (installing shelves, rods, etc.) Next will be the trim and kitchen cabinets. We're expecting the cabinets to arrive on Wednesday.

UPDATE!

I'm doing a little happy dance!!

It's a good thing my kids have hard heads.

Here's a funny story for ya. See the two bruises on Grace's head. The first one she got chasing Tanner. Tanner runs into the house and decides to slam the door behind him only Grace was only about 2 steps behind and the door knob caught her right on the forehead. The next morning was Morgan's "incident" and while we were at the doctors office the Dr says something about "not finding any bumps on his head" and Grace pipes up "I have a bump on my head!" The Dr replies "yes you do. How did you get that?" "Tanner did it." haha. So we tell her the story. The next day we're getting in the car, I have Morgan in one hand, half a dozen things in the other and Grace can't get her door open. So, I reach back to open it and she's standing a little too close and car door whacks her in the head - bruise #2.
Today when I pick Tanner up from school he has a sticker on his shirt that reads "Watch me, I bumped my head." Also included a nice note from the school nurse and the story from Tanner about running and jumping and somehow the edge of the sidewalk reached up and whacked him. He thought it was cool though - he got a Spiderman ice pack.

Can you say "accident prone"?

Six years ago today...

I still remember.

Where to start?

Morgan had a little accident on Thursday. It was my fault. I did something every mother does and knows she shouldn't do. You know, they're just starting to be mobile and you sit them somewhere and think to yourself "I probably shouldn't do that, but it'll be OK just for a minute". Not this time. Morgan went for a tumble onto our tile floor. After a small hysterical meltdown from me, a frantic trip to the doctors office and an immediate trip to Cook Childrens Hospital for a CT scan - he's fine. I can't even find evidence of a bruise or anything. *deep breath* and lesson learned.


Nothing really new with Grace. She's adapting to life without Tanner, but she's always looking for someone to play with. She asks to go to playgroup, to the park, to someone's house, etc. One day we'll get out a little more. Morgan just needs to grow a touch and we need to meet some people. Soon.


Tanner can count to 100! Without any prompting or reminding of certain numbers. He's so proud of himself. We count to 100 at least twice on the way to school every morning and several other times later in the day. When he gets to 100 he always asks for a high-five and then comes the question "what numbers come after 100 mom?"


And, for the house. We've got insulation in the walls - yeah! And as you can see in the picture the sheetrock is waiting to be put on. They should be there today to do that - woohoo! CJ started running the siding in the gables yesterday I'll have pics of that later in the week when there's a little more done.

oh, oh, oh - I almost forgot...... I made this cutie cupcake cake for my niece this weekend. Had her party at Build-A-Bear and we thought cupcakes would be easier to serve at the mall. She's 4! I can't believe it! Happy Birthday Lily!

And, last but not least, I got a new toy!

A PINK Dyson - rock on! Target had a deal last week, when you buy one you get a $100 Target gift card and when you buy the PINK one they give $40 to Breast Cancer Research. I know if I really wanted to give to breast cancer research I could have just sent them the $400 but I really needed the sweeper too :-)

That's all for now!

Here's a little update on the house. Boring pics, but it's what's going on right now. Yes, it's 90+ degrees and Brian has on long pants, long sleeves, a mask on his face and a toboggan on his head. The pains of using the paint sprayer. But I'm telling ya now - that's the way to paint!!!

We made it through the first week of school. I never cried, but today almost brought tears. Why? Because we didn't walk him in. He asked to be dropped off out front so he could walk in by himself. whhhaaaaa!