Saturday, September 1, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
1st Day
Tuesday was Daniel's first day of his afternoon preschool. If I could summarize yesterday in a few bullet points it would be these:
- No one cried
- It was completely opposite of last year
- We were happy to drop him off and pick him up
- It was a successful first day
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All the kids got a book from a bin and got to "read" while waiting for all their friends to arrive. He said "Ths one has too many words |
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| Then it was time to celebrate at night with some gooey ice cream. |
Monday, August 27, 2012
Weekend and getting ready
Last week we went to explore the possibilities of soccer. My friend along with son, Daniel's age, asked if we wanted to go see how boys their age play soccer. I said "sure, but he's not into sports" right off the bat. We went, actually Daniel wasn't bad at all. He tried bouncing the ball off his head and his knee and I was proud. We'll consider joining in the Spring, for now we have swimming, gymnastics in the winter and good old Polish school to keep us busy. We were caught off guard last week when he was asking to play soccer in the back yard daily. Of course we are trying to push our luck by purchasing a football this weekend. When he asked "how do you play with this ball?" the gleam in Ryan's eyes were priceless. Time will only tell.
We moved on to other celebrations this Saturday, Ry's XX birthday. We spent his day enjoying lunch with my in-laws and chatting for 3 hours at John Barley Corn. The free dessert for the birthday boy and his cute apprentice were nice as well.
Today we had orientation at preschool, Daniel's afternoon school. We get to have 2 firsts this year.His AM school and PM school.
We met the teachers, talked to parents, found his cubby, found the bathroom and played a ton. I think when we heard "I don't want to leave, I love this school" we knew he would be fine.
Tuesday is his official first day. He asked today if we would leave him there and we said "no, but tomorrow we'll drop you off and you'll have so much fun and then we'll be there to pick you up in two hours". Showing him two fingers somehow makes it look like a small amount of time.
We're not new at this, we did this last year. Daniel had such confidence today that Ry and I were just beaming with how easy it was going to be.
His outfit lays in the bathroom ready to go, his backpack with a blue folder with all forms filled out is in it. He's excited about his Hot Wheels backpack that he picked out by himself. I think the free hot wheels car that came with it was a selling point.
We read him the appropriate night books to prep him and we talked up preschool like it was the best thing since sliced bread.
He's ready. I'll get teary eyed, no doubt, but knowing I get to do this again in 4 years puts a smile on my face. My little man is growing up, he's blossoming into a spunky little guy that tests boundaries, has self confidence on the playground and the biggest, warm heart a mom could ever hope for.
Here's to another year of preschool. Full update in a day or two AND maybe a reveal of the kitchen. We are about 24 hours away from a full complete kitchen.
The back splash went up today and we just starred at it, it was our own personal orientation day with our new kitchen. We like her, we like her a lot.
We moved on to other celebrations this Saturday, Ry's XX birthday. We spent his day enjoying lunch with my in-laws and chatting for 3 hours at John Barley Corn. The free dessert for the birthday boy and his cute apprentice were nice as well.
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| Daniel taking pictures of his $12.99 Costco purchase right before we got to the restaurant. He needs 5 smiley faces to get another one. We're working on talking back and this was an appropriate bribe. |
We met the teachers, talked to parents, found his cubby, found the bathroom and played a ton. I think when we heard "I don't want to leave, I love this school" we knew he would be fine.
Tuesday is his official first day. He asked today if we would leave him there and we said "no, but tomorrow we'll drop you off and you'll have so much fun and then we'll be there to pick you up in two hours". Showing him two fingers somehow makes it look like a small amount of time.
We're not new at this, we did this last year. Daniel had such confidence today that Ry and I were just beaming with how easy it was going to be.
His outfit lays in the bathroom ready to go, his backpack with a blue folder with all forms filled out is in it. He's excited about his Hot Wheels backpack that he picked out by himself. I think the free hot wheels car that came with it was a selling point.
We read him the appropriate night books to prep him and we talked up preschool like it was the best thing since sliced bread.
He's ready. I'll get teary eyed, no doubt, but knowing I get to do this again in 4 years puts a smile on my face. My little man is growing up, he's blossoming into a spunky little guy that tests boundaries, has self confidence on the playground and the biggest, warm heart a mom could ever hope for.
Here's to another year of preschool. Full update in a day or two AND maybe a reveal of the kitchen. We are about 24 hours away from a full complete kitchen.
The back splash went up today and we just starred at it, it was our own personal orientation day with our new kitchen. We like her, we like her a lot.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Happy Birthday!!!!
Happy Birthday to my hubby!!!
Although you are closer to 40 this year, you are also wiser, more good looking and even a better husband and daddy than last year (if that's possible). :)
I wish you all the best, since we are closer to saying that we survived a kitchen remodel, I couldn't imagine going through any renovations with anyone else. And we have had our share of renovations.
Happy Birthday STUD!
Although you are closer to 40 this year, you are also wiser, more good looking and even a better husband and daddy than last year (if that's possible). :)
I wish you all the best, since we are closer to saying that we survived a kitchen remodel, I couldn't imagine going through any renovations with anyone else. And we have had our share of renovations.
Happy Birthday STUD!
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Quote of the week
I believe in hard work. It keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.
-Helena Rubinstein
-Helena Rubinstein
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
We are under construction
Literally. The kitchen is almost done. I can smell it.
This past weekend all of our plans for the weekend; pizza at a friend's house, furniture shopping, Union, IL for Thomas the train rides all CANCELED.
I picked up D on Friday and within 20 minutes he had a fever of 102. Saturday morning I took him to the Dr. and it looked like Strep, even though his swab test didn't show up positive, his throat was "a classic case of strep". It was weird that all weekend D complained that his tongue and mouth hurt, he never did that with his other gazillion strep cases (prior to his surgery). It was just odd. Monday his fever was gone and so he went to school, he felt better, another kid came down with the same thing and his Dr. diagnosed him with Herpagena. Sure enough when we looked in Daniel's mouth with a flashlight (for the hundredth time) he had sores all over.
He was taken off the antibiotics and is feeling much better.
So, that was our wonderful weekend.
We only got out to look at furniture for Daniel/baby. Still not sure what we want to do.
I'm officially in my third trimester! Yay! I'm feeling bigger, more tired and getting antsy to organize.
That was my riveting update!
This past weekend all of our plans for the weekend; pizza at a friend's house, furniture shopping, Union, IL for Thomas the train rides all CANCELED.
I picked up D on Friday and within 20 minutes he had a fever of 102. Saturday morning I took him to the Dr. and it looked like Strep, even though his swab test didn't show up positive, his throat was "a classic case of strep". It was weird that all weekend D complained that his tongue and mouth hurt, he never did that with his other gazillion strep cases (prior to his surgery). It was just odd. Monday his fever was gone and so he went to school, he felt better, another kid came down with the same thing and his Dr. diagnosed him with Herpagena. Sure enough when we looked in Daniel's mouth with a flashlight (for the hundredth time) he had sores all over.
He was taken off the antibiotics and is feeling much better.
So, that was our wonderful weekend.
We only got out to look at furniture for Daniel/baby. Still not sure what we want to do.
I'm officially in my third trimester! Yay! I'm feeling bigger, more tired and getting antsy to organize.
That was my riveting update!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Progress
Since my last post on the kitchen demo we have made some progress.
The window is out. The door has not yet arrived.
Drywall is up and behind it is nice insulation to keep us warmer and our plates and glasses too.
Electrical wiring is done.
Patching is complete. Ceiling is painted.
Tile floor is down (for the most part).
I picked up extra paint yesterday (no new colors, thank goodness).
So far the progress has been good. Once the tile is set the cabinets will start going up. Right now all the cabinets are in the garage.
Some of you have asked about the individual pieces I chose for the kitchen. I would link to the individual items that I chose such as tile, backsplash, lighting... but they just don't look the same on websites as in real life. I will take pictures of them individually once it's all done and link to where I got them. I have a fear of someone thinking it's ugly but in the end I hope it will look better pulled together, know what I mean?
We have a good team of guys working on the house and that has helped a ton. They communicate well and set our expectations. Most importantly they show up on time everyday. I have heard horror stories of contractors demoing a kitchen and then not showing up for a week or two and you're stuck waiting. So far, we have been lucky.
We hope for a completion date of a couple more weeks. We'll see.
Have a good weekend. We have some fun things planned.
The window is out. The door has not yet arrived.
Drywall is up and behind it is nice insulation to keep us warmer and our plates and glasses too.
Electrical wiring is done.
Patching is complete. Ceiling is painted.
Tile floor is down (for the most part).
I picked up extra paint yesterday (no new colors, thank goodness).
So far the progress has been good. Once the tile is set the cabinets will start going up. Right now all the cabinets are in the garage.
Some of you have asked about the individual pieces I chose for the kitchen. I would link to the individual items that I chose such as tile, backsplash, lighting... but they just don't look the same on websites as in real life. I will take pictures of them individually once it's all done and link to where I got them. I have a fear of someone thinking it's ugly but in the end I hope it will look better pulled together, know what I mean?
We have a good team of guys working on the house and that has helped a ton. They communicate well and set our expectations. Most importantly they show up on time everyday. I have heard horror stories of contractors demoing a kitchen and then not showing up for a week or two and you're stuck waiting. So far, we have been lucky.
We hope for a completion date of a couple more weeks. We'll see.
Have a good weekend. We have some fun things planned.
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