house update! :)

Ready for a house update?  I thought so! :D

This is my bedroom.  The blue is a little bit more blue when you're in the room (and it's all painted now).  It's the same color as my room at my parents' house.  Made choosing the right shade easy! :)

I chose the curtains in my bathroom before choosing the wall color.  The white ruffled one is on my bathtub/shower and the colorful one is hiding the washer/dryer closet.  And I hid the curtain rod on the colorful one so it looks a little less like I have two showers.

Leah is officially responsible for most of the painting in my bathroom!  And this pose is what happens when you ask your rock climbing friend to come help you paint! lol

Ok, this next picture is of the laundry closet.  I already knew I wanted to paint this room a shade somewhat close to this (thanks to Pinterest...!)  I like it because it gives me some fun color, but I can easily hide it behind the curtain.

Once again Leah came over to help me paint...and ended up painting this whole closet!  I put this picture on pinterest and said this is called exploiting our friendship - her painting while I stand there and take a picture! haha!

Paint hands!!

Color!!!  Scares some of you out there, doesn't it??  Heehee! 

Here it is with the curtain.  See....ties it all together.  And the bright blue won't be seen unless you open the curtain...and I will pretty much be the only one doing that.  :)

Dining room table I found at our church's mission's yard sale.  Now to find some chairs.  And clean that floor.  Although it is currently covered with boxes.

I also might have discovered this adorable red bassinet at the yard sale and couldn't pass it up!  Perfect for a photo shoot sometime.  As is the number three.  

This is the little area outside my front door.  It needed a little help.

Do you see what I added?

Since I can't plant anything over this water meter, I added an (easy to move) gnome and frog!  I named the gnome Gunther. He just seemed like a Gunther.  

Finally!  I had some super sweet friends come and help me move!  This is little Leah.  She was a big help.  She said she could help carry boxes since she's now 4 years old.  I would have been out of luck if I had moved a week earlier when she was still only three!  ;)

Yay!!  All the items that have been stashed away in my storage unit for almost two years! 

It was supposed to rain that day so I prayed that God would hold it off while we loaded and unloaded everything.  And He did!  It started to rain just as we were finished!

Now...

...to unpack just a few boxes....  :-p haha!

This is my brand new sliding glass door out to my back patio! I love it! It lets in so much great light.  And yes, that back little garden area needs some major work.  Eventually...

I have unpacked the living room and thanks to the cool panorama setting on my iphone camera, here is a glimpse of what it looks like!  (ignore the mess of boxes in the dining room....)  I don't have pictures hanging on the wall yet, but it's getting there.  

Now on to the other rooms...  :)

catching up - my life outside being a nanny

Some of what else I have been up to...

Picnic lunch with friends after church. 

 Went to see the play 12 Angry Jurors directed by the best friend...then went to a restaurant to chill and let him unwind a bit...play week is super stressful.  But he and his students always do an awesome job!

{shameless plug: if you like plays. and music. and charlie brown...come see the Word Players production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown coming in June! And also see Michael as Schroeder...blond hair and all! lol } 

 My other best friend's little sister asked me to photograph her wedding.  I told her she was crazy. lol I have never done a wedding before and most definitely did NOT feel qualified.  But I agreed anyways.

The sign her nephew carried. I know it's sideways. I don't care. I don't want to go fix it. lol 

Even the photographer needs pretty feet for a wedding.  :) 

Somebody's daddy just left Miss Madison hanging out in the sanctuary while he and her brother went to get dressed! lol It was ok...Kiki found her and hung out with her.  She just climbed those stairs over and over and over. Thankfully there were only two! ha. 

Just a cell phone picture glimpse of the wedding. 

I attempted to make a bowtie.  Stupid bowtie. Don't make them. Just go buy them. Argh.  The second attempt was better though. 

This is how one sends a hug to a friend having a bad day.  :) 

Went to my baby cousin's college graduation.  So good to see him! 

Ok, so I don't often post food pictures but I made toast for the boys just like my mom used to make it once in a while.  Tasted like childhood.  :} 

 Mom and her sisters were going through some more of my grandmother's things and ran across this cute little shoe.  :)  Too bad we don't know where the other one is! It would be fun to let my own little girl wear them someday...if I ever have my own little girl.  :}

Ok, house update coming next!  But for now I have GOT to go to bed!!

catching up...kid-wise

Yes...I know...I'm behind...again....  :}  The last few weeks have been a little crazy with working, moving, weddings, etc.  Here is what I've been up to nanny-wise...  :)

I loove being outside in the spring when the weather is perfect!  The boys and I will walk towards the playground down the street and stop at this big grassy area with picnic tables and they will just run and explore and pick up leaves to bring to me and basically have a blast.  Then we head to the playground...if we haven't run out of time.  :)

Mommy got us a treat - Trix cereal - to use for some color sorting play!  A most delicious way to learn your colors...  :}  

When in doubt about which toy Superman wants to play with...I just stick him in with all of them! lol  Mostly cuz I think he looks super cute sitting there in the toy basket...  :} 

Mommy and Daddy get a Little Gym collage like this every Thursday.  :)  We love Little Gym! 

I just liked this one a lot.  :) 

Yay for outside playtime!! 

The table was being used as a drum here... 

Aww.

Ok so these are a little fuzzy...but it's hard to shoot a moving target! lol  Superman has learned to pull up on everything and is cruising along the couch or whatever he pulls up on.

Big Brother was soo proud of himself for being able to climb up this ladder all by himself!  Now Little Man thinks he should be able to do it too...  another year or so Little Man...be patient....  :} 

 Just to clarify...Superman isn't quite this dependent on his paci, however I always clip it to him at Little Gym because otherwise he of course tries to taste everything and while I may not be a complete germaphobe...eww.  :}

He does, however, like his paci a lot.  I call him a "paci connoisseur"...he has tried just about every paci brand out there and approves of pretty much all of them! ha.   

A "real" cell phone to play with and a truck picking up branches to watch out the window makes for a pretty great morning when you're two.  :) 

So.  Superman has officially reached the developmental stage of "object permanence"! He knows you're still there when you disappear into another room even for just a split second and does NOT like it! But I refuse to pick him up every single time so he is learning to quickly follow me (I know he does that for mommy too) to the other room and as long as he can see me, he's a happy guy again.  :)

(Don't worry...those tears only lasted a couple seconds.)  :)

See?  Happy baby again! :)

New swing! 

Haha! I love the pic in the top left corner!  And the one in the bottom left corner - we had three or four babies at the start of that little object course and I didn't know if Superman would crawl over those gaps or not, but as you can see, he was the first baby to go for it and didn't stop until he was at the end!  

Mommy text me this picture on Mother's Day.  Oh my stars how cute is that outfit?! 

Sensory play:  a cup of split peas in the empty water table = 45 minutes of busy playtime!

So see? Even when I'm not posting...I'm still busy behind the scenes!  :)  More coming...