House Update

Here are the most current pictures.

Tile floor in the bathrooms

I was a little nervous about picking such a bold, bright color, but in the playroom, it's perfect!

The foyer light fixture
The great room
Front entry
Kitchen/Dining
Tile that will go around the fireplace. It's just leaning up against the wall, so the pink plywood will not show!

Wow

This is a new record for me in time between posts I think. I've barely had time to breathe lately, let alone blog. I could type out ALOT of stuff, but I'll put the highlights in bullets.

*Rylan finally had his 4 year check-up, he's 35 pounds, 40 inches tall and the bravest kid I know!

*Mackenzie had an ear infection

*We now know Mackenzie is allergic to amoxicillin

*After many long nights (or short if you count sleeping hours), all final projects are graded and school is over!

*Summer is officially here!

*After many long nights (or short...) we are moved out of our old house and in with the in-laws

*The new house is (obviously) not quite done, but getting closer

*I'm visiting the farm with the kids for a week and I love having no responsibilities other than being a mom!

Here is a smattering of photos over the last month. I intended to post new house photos tonight as well, but I'm tired, so this is it!

Golfing on Mother's Day

My new favorite picture of my two lovies!

Playing peek-a-boo

One of the three trailers full of our stuff.

Evidence we spent time at Urgent Care to have Mackenzie's ear infection diagnosed.
Better evidence: she's sitting still watching a movie, and just look at her, poor girl! She was extra, extra cuddly, and while I loved that, I would give it up any day to have my happy girl back. She's fine now, but this was not a fun weekend for her.

Grandma & Left, Center, Right

My mom stayed with us last weekend because Nick was out of town. It was so much fun to have her here and the kids just loved all the extra attention. She brought a dice/chip game called Left, Center, Right. It consists of little poker-like chips and 3 dice. Each die has an "R", and "L" and a "C" on it. The other 3 sides each had a big black dot. Each player starts with 3 chips. The first person rolls all three dice. If you roll an "R", you give one chip to the player on your right. If you roll an "L", you give a chip to the person on your left. If you roll a "C", you place a chip in the center of the table. If you get black dots, you do nothing. The next player takes their turn and so on. If you have fewer than 3 chips, you roll that number of dice on your turn. The last person with any chips wins the game.

Rylan is really into games lately, he loves to learn something new and he especially likes to win. He picked up on this game right away and really got animated while playing. He asked Grandma if she was going to leave this game at our house and she said no, she had to bring it back home with her. So I told Rylan we would make our own game. So that night, I cut out a box pattern from some cardstock and glued 3 cubes together. The next day, Rylan helped me stick foam letters and shapes to the boxes so our game was complete. I didn't have any circles, but we used hands and feet and they are so cute! They are much bigger than regulation dice, measuring 1 - 1/2 inches cubed, but they are perfect for our own Left, Center, Right!

For our chips, we used regular poker chips. But because we can't play this game when Mackenzie is awake (because she can't join in or she'll break the boxes) Grandma had a great idea of a game to play with the chips that Mackenzie could play!

Throw all the chips on the floor, then pick them back up!!! I'm sure you can imagine how much they both hated this game. :)

Then poor Grandma got attacked!

We love you Mom/Grandma! Thank you so much for coming!