First cold

Elleanor caught her first cold! I think it snuck up on her Sunday night, say around 1 am... Poor baby! The nose sucker thingy sure is worth it's weight in gold!



We sure hope this passes quickly!

Before Kim Discovered HGTV

While Kim was home with Elle, they ended up watching a lot of HGTV. Unfortunately, it inspired her to spruce up a lot of the rooms in our house. This is what our master bedroom looked like on Friday.

Obviously, Elle wasn't pleased with the way it looked either

"How About a Headboard?"

Sure, that sounds like a great idea. It was off to Home Depot and Joann's for supplies. (Sometimes I really wish I had a truck)

A little measuring, cutting, and stapling...

The Finished Design...

We painted the walls a "Cool Cucumber', made the headboard, and added new lamps next to the bed from Ikea

Kim painted a garage sale mirror and mounted some art she made

Kim also framed some pictures of the three of us for her side of the bed



And of course the frame that Poppi made us is back on the wall

Kim and Elle enjoying the beautiful new room. It was a lot of hard work and we may never paint again but it was all worth it in the end.

Of course Elle loves the new room and what good is a post without plenty of our smiling girl

"The mirror is THIS big"

"Aha! The bed is mine!"

Other Projects From This Weekend

Kim Finished up this rope rug for Tracy. It's out of the Martha Stewart Craft Book she got for her birthday from my parents. She plans on trying to do a project from each chapter in the next year.

Kim also made Elle a hair barrette. I think she might have jumped the gun on Elle's hair style but it is very cute.

Next up was the artwork. A little modge podge, craft paper, canvas and voila!



A few frames and pictures that were scattered around the house found their perfect mates

Kim also cooked up a storm on Monday in the hopes that it would last all week. On the menu is breakfast casserole, potato bacon torte, bananna bread, and a host of other dishes.

I spend some quality "guy time" out in the garage building this wine rack for the closet. Apparently I caught the HGTV bug too.

The finished rack all loaded up. I guess I have to build another one before we can buy any more wine.

I hope everyone was able to enjoy their weekend and relax a little bit more than we did!

Something to tide you over

We have been super busy "laboring" this Labor Day weekend. We will have pictures of the final products tomorrow night hopefully. Let's just say HGTV is the devil. This is a video I shot earlier this week. It was bedtime but Elle was using her cuteness to stay up "just a few more minutes, Dad"

I see you!!!

And I'm gonna get you :O)

Weighed and Measured

On Friday, Elleanor had her 2 month checkup. Daddy took the day off so we could properly prepare for the weigh-in. We did our stretching exercises and took a nice big bottle to bulk up.



Elleanor making her mark on the table. You can just see the lines on the paper they used to measure her length. She is now 23" long (90%) and her head is in the 50th percentile so an improvement over the last appointment.

She weighed in at a nice 11lbs. 11oz. She's definitely a keeper! This put her in the 75th percentile.



This was the calm before the storm. Next up were her immunization shots. The doctor was nice enough to hand us a bottle of infant Tylenol before he left and sent in the nurse who had drawn the short straw for the day.

Luckily this picture doesn't have sound! Just imagine crying that turned into a general hiss. Elle was definitely not her smiley self at this point. Luckily she did sooth herself down rather quickly once mommy could pick her up. She left with three cute little Band-Aids and a pretty horse sticker. Daddy said no to the sucker. Maybe next time.

Hide and seek

Whenever Elleanor and Gia get together, they conspire against their parents. I think they agreed that they would both be hungry at the same time.

"Hey Gia, Wanna play a game of hide and seek?"

"OK Elle, You go hide and I'll count. 1...2...3..."

"I found you!!!"

Sophie and Ceci

The cousins came to visit this weekend and they fit in perfectly at our house. Each morning the girls would cuddle with the babies and watch Tom and Jerry. They are such good big Sisters/Cousins!!

They even made friends with the Anne Marie and Henry. If you look closely you can see Soph and Ceci talking from the playhouse and Anne Marie and Henry talking from their trampoline. It was totally cute and maybe next time we can set up a play date so they can be in the same yard. :O)