Our little boy is going to school!

Well, it’s preschool this year, but it’s the first step in a long LONG career of being teacher’s pet.

This preschool thing is something I am really looking forward to, both for him and for me. I know it will be so nice for him to learn new things, play fun games, make new friends, and all the other fun stuff that goes along with going to school. I also know it’s going be be really nice for me to have the mornings ‘off’ so I can get more excited and appreciative of the time I have with him, and he of me. I can already tell that I’ve enjoyed him more now that I know that I will get more time to myself in the VERY near future.
I can’t wait to see what this new experience will do to his already growing and expanding personality. He’s so eager to learn, and we can only give him so much in that respect. I’ll admit I have the least patience to repeat abc’s and colors and numbers and animals 250 times a day as he would love to. Greg is fortunately much better on that department, so Nolan’s been getting his learning thirst fix with his daddy whenever he is available. Now that he’s going to have the opportunity to learn new things 5 days a week, I expect him to be fluent in Latin by next spring.

Cast your vote!

Given these choices which would you pick:

Nolie is growing up fast, and we need to find him a twin bed. He still sleeps in his race car bed which holds a crib mattress. Poor guy.

So, I’ve had a picture in my mind of the bed I want to get him, but the budget has made me narrow it down to these choices. #5 is most like the bed I had in mind, but that one is really more than I want to spend on it. I am leaning heavily towards #6 because it’s a lot like what I have pictured, and more along the lines of the amount I want to spend on it.
But while searching for the perfect twin, I came across these other lovelies choices too that are making me wonder if I want to stray from my original oak wood bed idea.

Which would you get? Comment with your pick!

Some proof we haven’t been farting around

I’ve been having to listen to some complaints that I have stopped updating about the progress of the house after we moved in. And you were all right. This house just feels like such an ever on-going process that I kept telling myself ‘let me just get this, that, and that done, and THEN I will post some pictures of it.’ Well, I now realize that we will probably never really be done , because right when we finish everything we initially set out to do we will want to change it all again. ‘Cause that’s what we like to do, we like to torture ourselves like that.

So, this is me kicking off a tour of the house, in it’s current state. Starting with the living room.

For the extra effect I’d like to refresh your memory by showing you the state of the room as we first saw it, and it’s various stages after that.

This is the room as we first got it, the disgusting stained emerald green carpet, boring white walls, and cobwebs galore.

By now Greg has pulled up the carpet, which revealed the horribly paint splattered original hardwood floors, and the room has been painted. This is the room that gave Greg his nickname ’sloppy’ which Nolan has since taken to a new level. If you have not had the pleasure of hearing about this, ask Nolan. The room still needs a second coat to this day

The glorious hardwoods have been finished! I believe this is the day before we moved in.

And here we are, today, the furniture has only been repositioned about 34 times, and we are getting to a place where we think we may be only 5 re-arrangements away from settling on the layout, at least for a year.

I am about to take the blinds that were there when we bought the house down. They have a nice thick crust of hardwood floor sanding dust covering the layer of dust that formed on them during the years this house was a rental.

Oh. My. God. What a difference some curtains make. Chucked the blinds, and replaced them with some pretty awesome sheers, and cotton duck curtains.

I am wondering with all the green in the room; couch, chair, plants, sheers, curtains, maybe I want to keep the sheers, but exchange the curtains for some in cream or chocolate brown? What do you think?

And one final angle of the room to complete to tour-de-livingroom for today. We still have lots of things to do here, put shelves up, art, speakers, etc, etc. But we are already super comfortable as it is here.

That’s our boy