Foto Finish Friday: 2013 Week 46

DW2DT: Family Fun Goodness

It's only been a couple of weeks but already I don't know how we got by without a family room / toy room - or as the kids call it , he family fun room!

I suppose we should get some furniture and whatnot for in there but I love it already!

MacNeil Family Jam Band - The Next Generation!

DW2DT: Final Details

We're back in the house, but we'll be working on final details for some time to come.  All of the base needs to be filled and final painted, as well as all of the white portions of the stairs.  Since they stairs kind of jump out at you when you walk in, my guess is we might get them done, but that's it for a while.  Anyway, Matt was working on the fill on the stairs and Norah was VERY interested in what he was doing, and wanted to help.  Rod was curious, mainly because she was there, but she was really into it.  I find it really interesting that Norah, my fancy girl, is the one who's interested in bugs and worms and the whole construction process, while Rod, my very boy-like boy by most accounts loves to fold laundry and empty the dishwasher.

Norah News: Fun with Words

Norah is really flourishing on the reading front - she read an entire level 1 reader to me the other night.  She's sounding out words everywhere we go, on signs, on ketchup bottles, you name it!  She read "Parmesan Cheese" for my mom the other day!

Last night when I went to pick her up at the afterschool program, she was sitting on the front of the stage, on her own, with her nose in her latest Fancy Nancy find from the library.  The cool part of this vignette was her feet, which were swinging and her face when I caught up with her and asked what she was doing. 

I don't remember when, exactly, I learned to read.  But I do know that I've loved to read for a really long time and I could not be happier for Norah.  Seeing the joy and pride in her face when she figures out what she thought was a hard word is really amazing!

DW2DT: Porch View

Day 135: Front Porch

Foto Friday 2013 Week 45

Roddie Report : serious business

REAL happiness is....

Snuggling up with your big sister after playing in your new playroom all day and falling fast asleep on her lap while you wait for dinner... And her letting you sleep there... Love

DW2DT Day 129... Happiness is

1. Not living in a camper when the first snow flies
2. Catching up on laundry for the first time in a month (upstairs, and with the use of a dryer!!)
3. Having the kids Sleep in separate rooms...
4. ... But sharing a room for toys and playing
5. Very clearly seeing the light at the end of the tunnel
6. Having a closet so awesome it's hard to get a good picture! That's 9 feet of goodness that's mine, all mine! Matt has his own 9 feet on the right, currently being shared by the vacuum cleaner... It's a family tradition :)

Foto Friday 2013 Week 44

DW2DT: News from Day 115

You may have heard there was some pretty big news here in Massachusetts on October 30.  The Red Sox won the World Series, IN Fenway Park, for the first time in nearly a century.  Oh yeah, and WE GOT OUR OCCUPANCY PERMIT!!!  Not a moment too soon either, as the temps were dipping into the 20's at night and the camper was sold, to be picked up on Friday.   We had been migrating into the house, first for showers, then for meals, over the previous week, and we had set up the beds the previous weekend, and we were more than ready for the big move.

Tim sent us an email just before lunch letting us know the permit was in hand, and I took off from work a bit early to come home and make the beds before I took the kids Home to the House for the first time.  Yipeee!  They were suitably excited about their new rooms and the prospect of living in the house again.  Norah, forever the drama queen, shed a few tears for the trailer before the night was out.

Since move in, we've been very busy cleaning and settling in, not to mention building a sidewalk out front and the minimal amount of fall clean up outside.  There is still much more to be done, by us and Tim, but living inside again feels great.  Not too much time for blogging, but all is well!

 

Happy Wife, Happy Life - Matt with the cleaning supplies

Yes, they have their own bathroom, but both thought it would be better to do their hair in ours

 

Norah cuddled up in her new bed

Roddie and Mitchell the Monkey checking out the ball bed

How true..,

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