Busy busy busy

We have been busy! We had 4 milestones in less than 24 hours. #1- I put Bella down for bed and she wouldn't have it, so.... she climbed out. Twice. Hasn't happened since then but now she knows she capable. Not a great milestone for us, but one none the less.

#2- Cooper had his first night in underwear and stayed dry. To top that off, it's been almost a week and he's done it every night. Yay!

#3- Caroline "graduated" from preschool. She was pretty excited and it was a fun few minutes to celebrate her accomplishment.

#4- Elizabeth had her 2nd piano recital, but first one playing a song with 2 hands, and not only with 2 hands, but both hands had a different note going and at times different tempos. I was AMAZED when she learned it. It wasn't easy learning it and in my opinion, extremely early to learn, but she did and plays it fabulously!(She was also embarrassed I made her take this picture.)

Other than that, we FINALLY got our house. We closed on Friday and Saturday morning we were at Home Depot just after 8:00 spending away our checking account. Well, not really, but I assume that will be our most shopped at store over the next few weeks.

I realize that after going through my pictures, I haven't taken a picture of the front of the house, so I'll post that later. It's an older home, built in 1968. There is a lot of work to be done. The house is in great condition, just not to our taste, so we could live in it just fine, but we won't. :)

So as I said, we woke up Saturday morning and made our first trip to HD. We didn't get too much, but amazing how this little bit could add up to $160. Mostly the paint I think. I know we'll be spending much much more. I'd rather a trip to Hawaii or something like that, but I guess a nice house will work too. :)

So here is the glorious kitchen. It's a great size, but we have major plans for it. And look, matching seat covers. :)

I had to run back to the house we're living in and grab a few things and when I got back, Brian said he electrocuted himself a few times while pulling the fridge out. Luckily he wasn't laying on the floor when I got back. Then, he had to disconnect the water from the fridge and ended up flooding underneath the sink. We'd only been there a few minutes and already one reason to NOT have carpet in the kitchen. And 2 to NOT leave Brian alone!

There were no other major problems. Brian got the most of the issues. He kneeled on the nail strip and sliced his knee up a little and ran into the chandelier in the kitchen a few times so by the time we left he had blown out 3 of the 5 bulbs.

So our near future check list:

Tear up carpet in kitchen/dinning room

Tear up carpet in hall/living room

Remove cabinet doors in kitchen

Remove hardware from cabinets

Paint counter tops

Put in garden

Paint Cabinets

Paint kitchen and living room

Redo floorboards

Install wood floor

And on and on it goes. That's just near future, but we're making progress and excited about seeing the transformation. I'll take more pictures and put them up as we go. My last picture is just 'cause I thought it was funny. Caroline and Elizabeth came upstairs and Liz had put these balls in their shirts. Oh the things they come up with!