Thursday, September 15, 2011

For the record...

...we did dance class again today and Sage ROCKED IT! She didn't want to go because she thought she was going to the kid class. As soon as I reassured her it was the mommy class she quickly got dressed. She was like a little wind up toy just moving constantly. She even learned some bar work.

...I always encourage Sage telling her that she is so smart that she can be and do anything that she wants to in the whole world. I just wanted to point out now that I never ingrained it in her that this was her only choice: Whenever I say something along the lines of how big she is getting, she ALWAYS says that she "has to get bigger so (she) can grow up and be a Mom!" She is going to be a wonderful mom.

...I asked Jack if he wanted to do a sport and he wasn't interested. He'd rather be home and work on his hotel. This hotel project has been a hot topic for months. Every little scrap of wood, metal, wire, and tool is used for this hotel. The old lights we took down from the house are for the hotel. He has PVC buried in the pasture for the plumbing for the hotel. Every day we play hotel where he is the boss of the hotel, collects money, has lists of people's names and how many nights we are staying, and every door in the house has a card on it with a number so we know which is ours. And he loves me, because I always get to be an owner with him, even though his sister is begging and pleading to be one.

...Charlotte is still the cutest CUTEST little girl. I LOVE her to bits and pieces. Well, that goes for the lot of them, at that. Charly love to be involved and doing what the other kids are doing. She will bring you diapers and wipes when she is poopy. She is becoming a amazing artist - she does not scribble but very intricately fills an entire page of her drawings, very very concentrated when doing it too. I'm totally impressed.

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Ballerina Class

 

Sage has been dying to be a ballerina and take a ballerina class.  So we got the girls signed up for a mommy and me class for kids 1-3 yrs old.  She was super duper excited.  We got there and besides us, there was one more child/mom.  Charly loved it.  Sage did a great job but it was obviously a little too young for her.  At the end she said that we didn’t get to dance like a ballerina!  The teacher offered that she stay and try out the next class with just 3 year olds.  It was right at nap time for Charly, but I decided to give it a go anyway.  This was much harder for her.  More girls, no mom.  We left early.  Sage decided that she does not like ballerina classes.  We paid for the month, and we’ll reassess from there.  BUT the girls look absolutely adorable, ADORABLE, in their ballerina dresses.

 

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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Eating Area – done!

Warning: I seem incapable of taking a picture when the house is clean…please keep in mind that the house is in construction during these photos and so is really not clean enough to be taking pictures of and sharing but it is what it is.

Before:

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Wall paint (Harvest Brown):

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New desk (You can fold up the computer area to hide our mess):

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Cabinet painted (Katherine was a machine, Bill her grunt man):

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Cabinet doors frosted (compliments of Bill) and with curtains to hide my mess:

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Window valance completed:

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That is pretty much all we are going to do right now in there!  The flooring definitely needs to be changed…we are still having discussions about what type of floors… But I’m super excited for what has been done so far.  It is starting to feel like my house and not just a house we live in.  THANK YOU BILL AND KATHERINE FOR ALL YOUR HELP WITH PAINTING!!!!!

Moving onto the next room…