Naked

Every time I turn around there she is, naked. For no apparent reason other that she has figured out that she can get her shorts off and take her diaper off and just stand there, naked. She can watch TV, naked. She can play with her toys, you guessed it, naked! It's driving me crazy.

I get her dressed, I go make sure Hunter is dressed, then I go get ready, so we can go... where ever it is we need to go, and there she is.... naked, again. I mean jeesh, I just got her dressed!! She just looks at me and smiles, that beautiful, dimply smile. How can I get mad at that smile?

I mean really, how could you get mad at a naked little girl smiling at you like that??? She is so proud of her nakedness.

On another note, I haven't had to clean a poopy diaper in about a month!!! She is going #2 in the potty all the time now. We haven't quite mastered going #1, maybe that is the reason for the nakedness. The diapers she takes off always have just a little bit of pee in them. Sorry, TMI.
Yeah!!! for Stella!!!

My list of things to do...

I know I keep posting about the remodel of our playroom but it seems all consuming right now. Things left to do:
paint doors and trim,
finish putting siding on,
install window sills,
sand drywall,
prime drywall,
paint drywall,
attach and paint baseboards,
get rid of all the garbage that was made during this thing,
pick flooring (which cost $$ and agree with Andrew about it),
install flooring, (or just put back the old carpet, free)
move in furniture,
enjoy!!

I know it won't be too long but the part that is the most difficult is the agreeing on flooring (what and if we should get it) and paint color.

I will post updated pictures another time, the kids are being crazy right now and dinner is cooking.

Phase 2

Well today we start on phase 2 of the room. By the end of this part we should at least have drywall up but probably not moldings or baseboards or flooring. Which is why I'm posting. The flooring is going to be an issue between Andrew and myself. He wants something really high end but we can't afford that nor does that stuff hold up as well as say.. laminate. He says laminate looks fake and cheesy. I say it's durable and easier to clean than carpet. He says the kids will ruin it by spilling a drink on it, I say same with carpet. He says the dogs will ruin it and it'll look crappy too quick, so I ask him what he thinks and he says , "I don't know." Typical man answer!!! Grrrrr......

We can't seem to agree.

New Room before and after pictures

There are lots of pictures

This one is a before pic of the roof. (It's from when we first bought the house)


Another before picture of the playroom/back of house.


This is the rafters on and plywood being put on.


This is plywood done.


This is tin all done and the A/C work is being done before we close in the gable.


Inside before...


Inside being framed in for replacement window.


New window in place. (so much better than the old crank windows!)


Window and sliding glass door before....


and after with new window and french doors!


So whaddayu think?

So what's left to do you ask?

Some electrical, run cable for TV, replace vinyl siding, frame in windows and doors, drywall,baseboards, paint and probably some other things I'm forgetting. I will post totally complete pictures next time (hopefully)

Oops, she did it again...

Lucas's mom that is. She has done it again. At least this time she has set a record. She has managed to get one guy to stay around long enough to get her pregnant twice! I know that's mean, but really, Andrew is still there to take care of Lucas, but Jillian's dad ran. Not only did he run but apparently to another country to get away. I don't think her boyfriend realizes that he's gonna be stuck with her for 18 years!! Lucas's is none too thrilled about it. I think he might be starting to realize that his mother sucks. I just found out from his friends mother that Shannon has passes to BG, SW and AI for her and Jillian but not for Luke. She also takes Jillian to Disney, alot, he hasn't been in years. She pisses me off. She can't even take care of the 2 she has (Jillians' speech problem is very apparent to everyone but her and her family, I guess, and Luke just gets ignored) and now she's gonna add another one. IDIOT!!

Alright I'm done with my rant.

The count down

5 days, only 5 more days and my dad will be here to start our remodel of the playroom into the family room. We have a garage full of supplies and the french doors we are going to put it. The windows have been ordered. They are not the windows I wanted but the windows I really wanted were 3x the amount of the ones we are getting, so I settled....

My dad will be here on Thursday to start. I don't know exactly what he will be starting (ie. prepping, or measuring or pre-building the rafters or who knows what else)

We close on the loan on Tuesday night. I'm really looking forward to that being done and over with. I've sort of been stressed about that part of this, especially since we have ordered and bought all the supplies and it all is contingent on the re-fi.

Her Masterpeice

This is from a few days ago but I thought I'd share anyway. This is the first time I let her have her own way with some paints at the kitchen table. For the most part she kept it on the paper. She was so serious while painting.

Can you hear her saying, "Ta daaa" ?

It's a Jungle out there

We went to Sarasota Jungle Gardens yesterday. I think Hunter had a really good time. We saw all sorts of animals, mostly small things like birds and reptiles and small monkeys. He got to feed a flamingo and some ducks.



The best part of Hunter's day was getting to hold an American Alligator. Stella went up with Hunter and touched it until she realized what it was she was actually touching. Check out her face in the second picture.




We saw a bird show, critter show and a reptile show. Hunter got to take a picture with a bird of his choice (he chose a blue and gold macaw) and we walked around the 'Jungle' and were able to see a variety of palms and other trees. Along the path through the 'jungle' were cages with various birds and small monkeys. My camera (of course) stopped taking pictures because it ran out of battery about 3/4 of the way through our day. I still got a lot of good pictures though.

If you are noticing a look of pain on his face, that's because the birds' claws are digging into his skin. At least he didn't drop the bird!!LOL