I Freaking Love You

   My Dad took Avery to the Supermall to play yesterday, and they went into the photo booth.  It's pretty funny.

Saturday Night Fever!

      Tonight we gave Harper her second Oreo ever.  She's a big fan.  Sebastian likes to sit in her chair when she's not in it, so it wasn't too surprising when he jumped up on her tray while she was in it.  He got confused and thought the gold fish crackers were some special cat treat.  Once Harper was adjusted to sharing her seat with the cat she used the opportunity to give him lots of special love.  

      Avery spent her time tonight doing puzzles. She has four puzzles that we do pretty much every day.  She is surprisingly good at them too.  I help with the borders, but she can do a lot herself.  That's our amazing Saturday night.  Also on an unrelated note we won't be moving in until the 27th now.  Sigh.

Avery saw the camera out and felt she needed to be photographed as well up close.

The Final House Update

  We have scheduled our move for the 21st of this month, so we our moving come rain or shine.  The wood floor is in, and it looks gorgeous.  All the doors have handles now.  Our filler front doors have been replaced with our real front doors. All the closets are done, the majority of the light fixtures are up, our hardware for all our cabinets are in patiently waiting to be installed, and the carpet will be in on Valentine's Day. 

  Downstairs in the basement we wanted to put a door that closed off the media room from the rest of the rooms for additional privacy and to help block noise.  We couldn't put a traditional door or a pocket door, so we needed to put in something that is called a barn door.  It slides on a track in front of the opening to close it, and to open it slides down its track in front of the wall.  The guy who was building the barn door suggested we make the door a bookcase, so it looks more natural I guess.  We thought that was cool, so now we have a sliding bookcase door. 

The fabled tiger wood finally installed.

Our real front door!

Avery finally pulling her own weight and helping out around the house.

Harper also helped clean by crawling all over the floor and dusting it with her clothes.

This is the hallway we are blocking off with our sliding bookcase door.

This is the bookcase in its closed position.

The Sunday Edition of Avery

   This is what Avery chose to wear to Church today.  She wasn't really into getting her picture taken, and that's why her eyes are resolutely closed.  I love that she wanted to wear her little baby headband that she wore when she was blessed, and yes she wore it through all of Church much to her Sunbeam teacher's delight I'm sure.

General Silliness

Li'l Sebastian

    I don't know if we really said what we named that kitten we got last month, but just so you can rest easy at night his name is Sebastian.  He continues to be a good kitty.  He's very energetic and playful, and he can jump really high and far.  We think he might have springs in his back paws.  Sebastian needs to know what is going on,  so he follows me around when the children aren't about.  Fortunately he never really gets in the way except when you're going downstairs though.  Enjoy some adorable kitten pictures.  Just what you need for Monday.

House Update #16

   With all the bad weather last week, naturally we are now at least a  week behind.  The largest blow was that our flooring woes continued since the wood was supposed to be delivered last week, and it wasn't.  The wood floor finally made it to our house on Tuesday, and only needs to acclimate for three days.
   We really are winding down.  The carpet for the basement is ordered, and should be getting to the house sometime next week.  Other than that we are just waiting for a few light fixtures and all the hardware (handles, pulls, etc.) to come in.  Let me just say that we are really excited about our master closet.  We're not sure we have enough clothes for it, which really is just fine.  It would just be my dream come true to have plenty of storage in my closet.
   Hopefully soon we will have a concrete date for when the house will be done, but  unless we have more crazy weather we should be in next month.

Our hood vent.

The railing on the deck is now complete with the glass inserts, so now we won't lose children through them.

They have put the tile up on our master bedroom's fireplace.

Our master closet is beginning to take shape.

Shower doors!

This is the tub.

Here's our vanity, and off to the right is a towel warmer.

The media room is coming right along.  You can see they have the back riser complete.

The shower  doors area also in, in the downstairs bathroom.

Our exterior lighting is going up.