Duh! I forgot Jake's stats!
16 lbs 1oz (25th percentile)
28+ inches (95th percentile)z
We've done got ourself a bean-pole!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Long Awaited Update
Here we are! We now live in a house, a real house! Not a 1-bedroom apartment, but a 4-bedroom, 1 and a half bath, 2 car garage house complete with foyer. Hee! If you haven't guessed it, we've been crazy busy doing all the work before we moved in and now we're officially moved in as of this past weekend...and we're still working! We still have a gutted kitchen, but with a beautiful ceramic tile floor, semi-gutted full bathroom, but with a functional (somewhat) shower/tub (there's a leak now) and a dinning room posing as a storage facility for decor and kitchen stuff. Good thing we don't have a table!
We also have a wonderfully happy 6-month old baby! He's been so good through all this crazy schedule and going from here to there. Thank goodness there's only one of 'em and he can't crawl yet! He's working on it tho...loves to roll around and LOVES his new exersaucer Auntie Angie brought him! Yay!
I suppose I could quit babbling and show you proof of our work! Off you go!
Okay, I'm a little better now, but look at me, I can sit up!
We just discovered this delicious snack, fruit puffs...I can't say what I call it, 'cause the authorities might take it away and I'd go thru major withdrawals without it! Porter is addicted too.
It's my mommy!
Ah yes, here we are at the house! I adjusted right quick to the high chair and pound down 2 containers of baby food for dinner. Oink! Oh, and there's some of my treats, but not for long!
I LOVE MY EXERSAUCER!
Pop! Aunt Sara, look at my shirt! I love it and it's very fitting for the weather! (Yes, says mommy, if you don't realize it, these pictures with the same shirt are from 2 different days.)
Here's my room! Kind-of...the black is magnetic chalk board yet to be tested...I may have told you this already, but I'm just so darn excited!
Here's a view from the living room to the foyer, all painted!
And here's from the living room to the dining room/storage. The wood floors are all refinished, most of the painting is done. Things are moving along!
Well, I guess I don't have to many house pictures. It's just got stuff everywhere, so hard to show people what it's really like. The fireplace has a whole new life, I'll have to get some pics of that. More awesome work to be done this weekend, maybe I'll have a few moments to snap some pictures then! And maybe some things will be put away or out of the way at least!
Porter says it's time for bed... 'night ya'll!
We also have a wonderfully happy 6-month old baby! He's been so good through all this crazy schedule and going from here to there. Thank goodness there's only one of 'em and he can't crawl yet! He's working on it tho...loves to roll around and LOVES his new exersaucer Auntie Angie brought him! Yay!
I suppose I could quit babbling and show you proof of our work! Off you go!
I know, I know, you can barely believe it, but yes, even I get the grumpies.
Okay, I'm a little better now, but look at me, I can sit up!
We just discovered this delicious snack, fruit puffs...I can't say what I call it, 'cause the authorities might take it away and I'd go thru major withdrawals without it! Porter is addicted too.
It's my mommy!
Ah yes, here we are at the house! I adjusted right quick to the high chair and pound down 2 containers of baby food for dinner. Oink! Oh, and there's some of my treats, but not for long!
I LOVE MY EXERSAUCER!
Pop! Aunt Sara, look at my shirt! I love it and it's very fitting for the weather! (Yes, says mommy, if you don't realize it, these pictures with the same shirt are from 2 different days.)
Here's my room! Kind-of...the black is magnetic chalk board yet to be tested...I may have told you this already, but I'm just so darn excited!
Here's a view from the living room to the foyer, all painted!
And here's from the living room to the dining room/storage. The wood floors are all refinished, most of the painting is done. Things are moving along!
Well, I guess I don't have to many house pictures. It's just got stuff everywhere, so hard to show people what it's really like. The fireplace has a whole new life, I'll have to get some pics of that. More awesome work to be done this weekend, maybe I'll have a few moments to snap some pictures then! And maybe some things will be put away or out of the way at least!
Porter says it's time for bed... 'night ya'll!
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Picture Fest
We're tired, we're all tired. And sore. This weekend, Brett, Diann, Randy, Buzz, and Sue are all here helping out on the house. Thank you millions of times over. So here is a picture update that I promised...some work in progress and random fun shots!
Aunt Sara sent me a new toque! It's a little big yet, but it'll last a lonnnnggg time! (1/29)
Now Cyrus, THIS is a pizza. Our homemade pizza puts Mellow Mushroom & Vinny's to shame! Can you taste the cheesy goodness? (2/3)
And then on 2/2
and then 2/3 after all the dust settles!
But wait, lets make more dust! Today we pulled up the old subfloor and Greg was sanding floors.
Randy had a bugger of a time with the sub-floor around the radiator. This is his, screw you radiator pose.
Tonight at 8:45 they were able to start morter-ing down the sub-floor. We left them at 10 with about 6 more boards to go.
This is after Sue & Tricia got ahold of it on 1/26.
And here it is today after a coat of primer and the floor sanded. Lots of dust in the air, so not the best picture!
Taylor had Jake laughing sooo hard! (1/26)
That's it for now! I can't keep my eyes open much longer and if I sit still too long my joints lock up. Hope you enjoyed the show! More as they come!
Oooooohhhhh, this looks like fun! I help too! (2/3)
Aunt Sara sent me a new toque! It's a little big yet, but it'll last a lonnnnggg time! (1/29)
Now Cyrus, THIS is a pizza. Our homemade pizza puts Mellow Mushroom & Vinny's to shame! Can you taste the cheesy goodness? (2/3)
The kitchen when we first bought it.
The kitchen on 1/30
The kitchen on 1/30
And then on 2/2
and then 2/3 after all the dust settles!
But wait, lets make more dust! Today we pulled up the old subfloor and Greg was sanding floors.
Randy had a bugger of a time with the sub-floor around the radiator. This is his, screw you radiator pose.
Tonight at 8:45 they were able to start morter-ing down the sub-floor. We left them at 10 with about 6 more boards to go.
Now this is the "sun room" when we bought it.
This is after Sue & Tricia got ahold of it on 1/26.
And here it is today after a coat of primer and the floor sanded. Lots of dust in the air, so not the best picture!
Taylor had Jake laughing sooo hard! (1/26)
That's it for now! I can't keep my eyes open much longer and if I sit still too long my joints lock up. Hope you enjoyed the show! More as they come!
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Snow Day
I'm at work writing this, so no pictures yet...some day soon!
Yesterday we got a TON of snow, and this is how my day went:
5:15am-Woke up with Jake for the morning bottle. Watched the news intently as the morning went on. Waited for daycare to call. They didn't call.
6:30am-called work and said daycare was closed (snicker!) Greg wasn't feeling good (some crazy cold he's got) so he gave me FULL REIGN to go to Home Depot and pick out the tile for the kitchen and main bathroom. Had some breakfast.
7:30am got Jake ready and took him to daycare
8:00am was heading towards Racine to Home Depot. At this point the roads weren't too bad. The wind was blowing tho and drifts were starting. There wasn't much snow on the ground, yet.
9:30am headed back to Kenosha with a full load of tile (15 boxes of 12x12 for the kitchen, 6 boxes of 8x8 for the bathroom), 8 bags of the cement stuff, 3 bags of grout, 2 metal rod things for doing the stairs, a 5 gallon bucket of joint compound, the top half of a toilet (left in there from Menards the other night), a few odds and ends and i think that's it.
10:07am got a call from Greg he was off to work and the roads sucked.
10:20ish, finally made it to the house with my loaded down car and laughed at all the snow on the ground. Started shoveling.
10:25am started swearing.
11am, gave up shoveling, got the sidewalk done from the road to the front door and one pass of a path from that sidewalk to the driveway. I had my path done, what more did I need! Started hauling crap in...got everything in except the 15 boxes of kitchen tile. Yes, I am sore.
A little before noon, started working on my project. Have to smooth out the master bedroom walls after striping wall paper which pulled paint off with it. Darn plaster walls! So I started that with the hardest wall and got 2.5 walls done.
2:30, watched and laugh as the mailman was stuck in the snow. Decided (Mom decided for me) to finish up and head out.
3:20 got a call from Greg, daycare is trying to get ahold of me, they're closing at 3. (I told the girls in the morning my new number was on the feeding sheet, they failed to tell the boss, who called my old number, work and Greg.) Luckily I was just finishing up cleaning off my tools and was ready to go. Got out to the car, got stuck. Had to walk down half a block to meet some neighbors who reluctently came and helped me. The snow was so heavy & thick, it piled up under the front end and whoola, spinning tires.
4:00 made it to daycare. Jake was the last one there, but someone else just picked up their kid, so not too bad!
So I get home a few minutes later (not far from daycare to apartment) and have to sit and wait for awhile for the dudes to clean out part of the parking lot. Of course they don't take care of the 4 foot drift in front of the garage door, so it's outside for the night. I also had to trudge threw drifts and crap with Jake to get to the door...which was OPEN when I got there. Just a crack, enough to let some snow in and make it a bitch to get the door closed. The door didn't get locked, so the wind must've popped it open.
So of course it's 62 degrees in the apartment. The lowest it's been has been 68, so we've never turned the heat on yet. I try, can't figure it out, call Jenny upstairs (who is the manager of the complex) for help. She comes and shows me the error of my ways. And soon enough, it's 72 degrees. It doesn't take much to warm up 750 square feet!
I think that about covers my exciting day! The whole thing started with a 1 hour and 20 minute drive home on tuesday night from work. Today, it took me a hour to get to work. Normally about 30 minutes.
Greg went over this morning to shovel, and he only got the driveway done enough for the garbage guys to come and get the dumpster from gutting the kitchen. But never fear! Super Jenny found a snow blower for us to use, yahoo!
Busy weekend ahead of us. Tiling, sanding floors, painting...whatever needs to be done and can get done will! Whooo! I have lots of pictures, I'll try and get them on soon!
Yesterday we got a TON of snow, and this is how my day went:
5:15am-Woke up with Jake for the morning bottle. Watched the news intently as the morning went on. Waited for daycare to call. They didn't call.
6:30am-called work and said daycare was closed (snicker!) Greg wasn't feeling good (some crazy cold he's got) so he gave me FULL REIGN to go to Home Depot and pick out the tile for the kitchen and main bathroom. Had some breakfast.
7:30am got Jake ready and took him to daycare
8:00am was heading towards Racine to Home Depot. At this point the roads weren't too bad. The wind was blowing tho and drifts were starting. There wasn't much snow on the ground, yet.
9:30am headed back to Kenosha with a full load of tile (15 boxes of 12x12 for the kitchen, 6 boxes of 8x8 for the bathroom), 8 bags of the cement stuff, 3 bags of grout, 2 metal rod things for doing the stairs, a 5 gallon bucket of joint compound, the top half of a toilet (left in there from Menards the other night), a few odds and ends and i think that's it.
10:07am got a call from Greg he was off to work and the roads sucked.
10:20ish, finally made it to the house with my loaded down car and laughed at all the snow on the ground. Started shoveling.
10:25am started swearing.
11am, gave up shoveling, got the sidewalk done from the road to the front door and one pass of a path from that sidewalk to the driveway. I had my path done, what more did I need! Started hauling crap in...got everything in except the 15 boxes of kitchen tile. Yes, I am sore.
A little before noon, started working on my project. Have to smooth out the master bedroom walls after striping wall paper which pulled paint off with it. Darn plaster walls! So I started that with the hardest wall and got 2.5 walls done.
2:30, watched and laugh as the mailman was stuck in the snow. Decided (Mom decided for me) to finish up and head out.
3:20 got a call from Greg, daycare is trying to get ahold of me, they're closing at 3. (I told the girls in the morning my new number was on the feeding sheet, they failed to tell the boss, who called my old number, work and Greg.) Luckily I was just finishing up cleaning off my tools and was ready to go. Got out to the car, got stuck. Had to walk down half a block to meet some neighbors who reluctently came and helped me. The snow was so heavy & thick, it piled up under the front end and whoola, spinning tires.
4:00 made it to daycare. Jake was the last one there, but someone else just picked up their kid, so not too bad!
So I get home a few minutes later (not far from daycare to apartment) and have to sit and wait for awhile for the dudes to clean out part of the parking lot. Of course they don't take care of the 4 foot drift in front of the garage door, so it's outside for the night. I also had to trudge threw drifts and crap with Jake to get to the door...which was OPEN when I got there. Just a crack, enough to let some snow in and make it a bitch to get the door closed. The door didn't get locked, so the wind must've popped it open.
So of course it's 62 degrees in the apartment. The lowest it's been has been 68, so we've never turned the heat on yet. I try, can't figure it out, call Jenny upstairs (who is the manager of the complex) for help. She comes and shows me the error of my ways. And soon enough, it's 72 degrees. It doesn't take much to warm up 750 square feet!
I think that about covers my exciting day! The whole thing started with a 1 hour and 20 minute drive home on tuesday night from work. Today, it took me a hour to get to work. Normally about 30 minutes.
Greg went over this morning to shovel, and he only got the driveway done enough for the garbage guys to come and get the dumpster from gutting the kitchen. But never fear! Super Jenny found a snow blower for us to use, yahoo!
Busy weekend ahead of us. Tiling, sanding floors, painting...whatever needs to be done and can get done will! Whooo! I have lots of pictures, I'll try and get them on soon!
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