Spring Break - Part 2

My projects got slowed down last week because we had a "slight problem" I said as I called Kris.  We don't use our guest bathroom that often and I'd been using it to wash out paint items.  I went downstairs for lunch and noticed that we had water leaking onto the kitchen counter from above.  Our sink had a slow leak over time but the constant running of water had pushed it over the line.  Kris walked me through shutting off the water and came home to start cutting out drywall to look for the leak.  Needless to say our whole house now seems like a construction zone between the kitchen, bathroom and Parker's room we have a little bit going on :).

Projects

Working on Parker's room.  Trying to make more neutral and add color from there.  It's been a work in progress.  I tend to go big... so everything is under construction in his room these days.  He's been sleeping in the office.

Also my mom had given us these end tables for the basement "man cave" a long time ago.  We finally got around to finishing them.  No before picture but I'm pretty sure they were orange.

Spring Break

I took a couple days off last week to work on Parker's room and catch up at home.  We got used to the lazy morning routines... Going to be a tough week.

Watching George before daycare

Out for a walk and filling pockets with keys/rocks.

Checking out Mommy's work. "I like him, I take him home" on the Principal Eddie doll.  He then proceeded to break his head off before we were even out of downtown.  

New Haircut

It looks as though my camera may have been smudged during these pictures.  Hard to believe that would ever happen!  Didn't realize how long PK's hair had gotten until we chopped it all off.  He looks so much cuter again! :)

Skirts!

There are so many little cute girl things to make.  I made some skirts for our niece who is turning 5 this month.  They are super cute.  I asked Kris if I should make one of each for myself :).  But I'm having the hardest time finding plain shirts to go with them.  Everything is covered in a slogan/picture or glitter!

Grocery Getter

Shopping for groceries at Fareway.  Daddy lets him have his own little cart to push around.  Parker's driving abilities: head down, follow mommy's heals.  At least I was wearing boots!!

Coloring on the paper from the meat department. 

Potty Training

We can officially say we are potty trained!  

This experience has not been for the weak.  This little guy has pushed me to my limit but we worked through it.  I'm so proud of him.  He has rocked it.  We went ahead and did a 3 day bootcamp type program.  I was so nervous; I didn't sleep the night before and honestly, I haven't slept since... It basically said once you start, don't turn back.  So I was kind of freaking out about it.  And I almost caved and gave up when we were in the heart of it and I was trying to act happy that he had peed on my floor for the millionth time.  But we pushed through and he's been doing great.  The only thing we need work on is making it through the night.  For the past week he has been waking up, waking me up and going to the bathroom.  But then it takes him over an hour to get back to sleep!  We need some work there.  Once we got through those 3 days I kind of wished we would have done it sooner.  (I've already blocked the bad memories I guess! :))

So proud of our little man and so glad that we have this done before summer!

Pants, Pants, Pants

One of these past weekends I got started on some pants I'd wanted to make for Parker.  I had found the material shortly after Christmas to make some pants for Dani's wedding this summer.  The khaki pair on the left has lining in it... Well, I didn't account for the lining making them more "fitting" so they are a tad snug.  I didn't even put elastic in them at all... lol.  He's such a skinny guy!  Anyways, the brown pair has a tad more stretch to them and I actually ended up liking them better. I ordered a blue dress shirt; so he should be looking fly this spring!

HEEYYY I'M BAACCKK!! :)

So I'm not sure where February went.  I was wishing it away and then whish, gone.  We tried staying busy and tried not strangling each other.  Both were very tough to do. I was traveling one week, we were potty training another weekend, celebrated 3 years together and tried to stay warm! 

Oh!  And I almost forgot.  I sold Zippy... :(  More on that later.

The bookcase is almost complete for the toy room.  I'd like to get some sort of "ABC" or "123" cardboard letters for the top of the bookcase to add some color up there.  On the right is an old cork board that was probably my dad's or something.  It had a brown metal ring around it.  I cut it down to the size I wanted for the bookcase, painted it white and then used ribbon and glued it to the sides to help clean those up.  I used some of those removable 3M stickies to hang it up but honestly it will probably crumble when I go to pull it off anyways.  I just didn't want to glue it to the wood.  We also got some more shelves cut down to size for the left side to add more of the bigger toys.  I love it. 

We also built some bookshelves (to be used for books) for the other side of the toy room.  I found some Pinterest inspiration and had Kris build them for me.  We finally got them painted and hung up.  I'd like to make some floor pillows for that area.  Right now there is a huge pig and cow taking up space under the books that we got from Adventureland.  They might have to find a new home soon!

Watching the race with daddy.  And being bribed by mom to wear his new shoes... Lol lots of bribing going around these parts!

We brought the little chairs and table in the kitchen that my Grandpa made and ate our meals on it for one whole weekend.  He wasn't happy moving it back into the toy room!