Hard at Work

The last few months have been spent getting ready for little Peanut's arrival. Cal and Peanut are going to share a room, so I had the bright idea to change up the décor and overall theme of the room. We love the safari theme the room had, but I wanted to make changes and give Callen more of a big boy room feel. Because of spacing in the room, we knew we needed to have a loft bed for Cal to sleep in and put the crib underneath the loft to maximize space and efficiency in the room. We enlisted the talents of Oupa for the bed building, and we got to work putting in a new closet system and painting the room. Each project took at least 2 weeks longer than I was expecting it would just because of living in an old house!! The existing closet was a mess. Doug had to remove boards, patch the walls, and prime and paint before we could install the new closet system. For the rest of the room, we ended up having to sand the walls, prime over the existing color to make the color grey we chose look good, and paint the walls and trim how we wanted them. It took us over two months to complete all these projects, but we are SOOO happy with the end result.

Closet before

Nice big hole leading to one of master bedroom closets!

Callen helping with spackling

Primed and ready for closet install

Finished closet!

Peeling the stick-ons off the wall

Sanding walls and choosing paint colors (we went with the one on the far left)

Callen overcoming his fear of the Shop Vac to help clean at the end of each day!

Patiently waiting for mom and dad to play with him!

Taping!

Painting!

The grey color going on 2/3 of the room

Accent wall in preparation for painting

Dark grey of accent wall

Finished project except for outline of white 'V' will be either yellow or pink stripe depending on gender of Peanut!

Another view of rom with single paint color

My big kid bed is here and I can touch the ceiling with my head!

Climbing the ladder...over and over! The crib will be below the loft with enough head clearance for us to lift Peanut in and out of crib without any problem.

This is awesome up here!

Night one was a success!

A big thank you to Callen's Oupa for all his crafty skills in building this bed for Callen. It was a HUGE undertaking (we may never know the extent and amount of curse words spoken to us under his breath!), but it was so worth it to see the joy and happiness Cal had the first time he climbed in the bed. He still loves to get up there and hang out each night. Our next plan is to build a little pulley system with a basket so Cal can raise and lower books, toys, etc. in and out of his bed. He can't safely carry anything up and down the ladder, so he needs a way to get things out of the bed...without throwing them! It has been a crazy few months with house projects, but we are finally slowing down and taking time to relax and enjoy our last few days as a family of three.

Oh My!!!

I want to apologize for my lack of blogging the last month and a half! When we went hiking over New Year's, I dropped our camera and broke the screen. It was still usable, but we waited until a few trips and outings were over before sending it to be repaired. We got it back (still broken) in time for our Tennessee trip with instructions to return it with payment for repair. So, back it went to be fixed once we returned home. (We are still waiting for it to be returned to us almost a month later!!! I'm not as good about taking pictures with our old point and shoot, and it's hard to capture a full event with the iPhone. Therefore, our picture taking has been significantly less these last few months!) Also, after returning from Tennessee, we ran into some serious computer troubles and are just now getting everything back and running properly. Until I logged into my blog account, I didn't realize my last post was April 18th! Call me a slacker!!

I actually sat down and wrote a full blog on our Tennessee trip only to realize that half the pictures from the trip are still on the disc...and can't be downloaded until I get the camera back! So, a few random pics from the last few weeks taken on the phone will have to do for a blog! Sorry!!!

We are finally potty trained! I love his independence...sometimes!

Helping mommy bread chicken. This kid loves to help me cook

Helping dad at Home Depot aka the Orange Project Store!

Our new thing...obsessed with anything firefighter. He would wear this hat and these boots just about everywhere if we let him

Living the dream at Costco! Snacks, sunglasses, and rain boots. He couldn't ask for more!

Last day of school was last week...first day pic on left and last day on right. Someone is a little more excited about school these days!

As soon as I get the camera back, I will download the remaining pics for our TN trip and get that blog up! I will try and do better about blogging over the next few weeks...I can't guarantee anything come end of June/beginning of July!