This past weekend Mark and Suzanne came out to visit. We had a great time, Alex loves having her grandparents visiting and Saturday she was in a great mood. Ryan and his dad worked on tiling the shower most of the day (after going to the dump and Alex’s gym class first) 🙂 Priorities!
The shower is coming along great! Mark had some great ideas for tiling the shelves and window, using the mosaic tile on the inside sides just one row of it, then using the beveled edge tiles for the rest of the side. We had planned on using the mosaic on the back of the shelves already and this added a smooth transition and tied the window in as well. It came out great. Just a little left on the shower and then the floor. Almost there!
Back wall, done except for starter row which is going lastLeft wall is finished except for the first row
Final wall, almost done (and that tile for shower head is already cut)
Ryan just needs another free weekend to finish up the shower and then the floor. Getting close. And now it’s Thanksgiving week!!!! Yay – pie and family – good times!
This is a very late post but generally I like to have my sewing projects on here along with house projects. So I’ll do a quick recap. No house work has been going on, Ryan has been working every free second he has including all weekend every weekend 🙁 This means I’m on Alex duty and with the teething lately (molars!), her naps haven’t always been great so I’ve been focusing on things that are easy to quit when she wakes.
What have we done ? Well first up was Halloween, I made her costume this year, she was a purple owl. She LOVED it. She loved the costume, loved trick-or-treating and just overall had a blast. She walked down and back up the street carrying her bucket and chatting with the neighbors. The idea of picking out candy and then getting to eat some at the end of the night – wow. It was fun.
Alex with her glow wand and bucket of candy when we were all done. It’s impossible to get a still picture of a toddler!Another costume view
After Halloween Alex and I went down to Aimee and Jason’s for the weekend (Aimee’s birthday) and the kids all got dressed in their costumes. We had a great weekend playing, Alex loved playing with all of Jason’s toys (I got a ton of great xmas gift ideas out of it for Alex 🙂 ).
Alex, Jason and Brobee – a favorite 🙂
The last 2 weekends we’ve been home. We started going to myGym on Saturday mornings and Alex loves it. We love it because she’s happy and gets tired out enough for a great Saturday nap 🙂 I need to come up with a Sunday morning activity to do the same! In the afternoons we hit up the park and do some daddy snuggles while he works (usually a xmas movie is on). We started introducing xmas concept to Alex and so far ‘Santa’ and ‘Ho ho ho’ are fun ones.
Alex’s favorite toys right now are trains so we spend a lot of time playing with Thomas and friends 🙂
Bedtime train time.
And this weekend I finally finished the top to Alex’s wall hanging for her bedroom. I set up my sewing room in my diningroom and Alex sat at the table and colored while I cut and ironed. After Alex went to bed I put the top together and I am looking forward to hand quilting it!
Top finished!
Hopefully we’ll have a house update next week, this weekend we plan to tile!
