A Work in Progress

We painted all the kitchen cabinets

Moved everything in

And painted the master bedroom (this used to be pink)

We managed to get everything into the new house this weekend although we had one person to help us (thank you, Eric!!), it was about 100 degrees and the AC in the house wasn't working (it's fixed now)! It wasn't a pleasant Saturday, but we did get everything moved over. Micah spent the day at his friend Jonathan's house while we unloaded the truck and came home to a new room :-) He has slept great both nights we've been there, so I think he's made the transition well. On Sunday I cleaned the old place so we're pretty much done. Now we're just waiting to take posession of the garage and the apt in the back so we can get it ready for a renter this fall. Never a dull moment...

Last day in the rental!

Tomorrow is our big move to the new house! Dan and I have been working on painting and cleaning the new place and hopefully will have a successful move tomorrow. Wish us luck! Here is a video of Micah in the kitchen saying "hello." He is really becoming quite the ham in front of the camera. As you can see, he is holding an ice scraper he found in the backseat of the car :-).

Our new house

the front

the den

Micah's room

front door and part of living room

kitchen eat-in area, doors to screened-in back porch and back yard

As promised, here are some photos of our place! Since it's empty, I just put up a couple of photos but will post more when we get moved in, which will hopefully be next weekend. For now, here are some shots of the front of the house and some of the rooms. It's a 2-bed, 2-bath with den (which was formerly used as a bedroom). There's a 1-car garage out back with an attached efficiency apartment, which we hope to rent out this fall, and a fenced yard. The living and dining rooms are hardwood, the bedrooms and den are carpet. Yes, we will be taking down the wallpaper in Micah's room and painting! Since the house is older, it has some of those nice touches like high ceilings and crown moulding that we like, but all of the siding and windows have been updated--yea! We are happy to have our own space!

Hope everyone has a happy 4th!

Buzz cut

This past weekend we decided to give Micah a buzz cut with our clippers! It's been close to 100 degrees everyday and we thought he'd be a lot cooler this way. I can't say he enjoyed it, but we did manage to get it done without leaving him with a mohawk. Here he is "reading" one of his favorite books--Dr. Seuss' The Foot Book. "Left foot, Right foot, Left foot, Right. Feet in the day, feet in the night." He also loves marching :-)

Happy Father's Day (a few days late...)

I couldn't let the occasion go by without posting this cute picture of my guys on Father's Day.

Update on the house situation: For those who don't already know, we have just purchased our first house! We'll be moving in sometime in the middle of July. We'll post pictures as soon as we can. Woo hoo!

Building Blocks

This is a shameless "brag" video! Micah has mastered the art of the shape sorter. We didn't realize this until one day I was sitting on the floor with him, shapes all around and he just popped them in one by one like it was nothing, while humming some little tune to himself. I shot this video shortly after that.

Those 3 little words...

Just wanted to let everyone know that Micah said (his version of) "I love you" for the first time this weekend :-) One small step for Micah, one giant leap for mommy's heart. "I na nu" too, little man.