Addison's new room

I've spent the weekend painting, sanding, and re-doing addison's room. My mother is over the top thrilled to see pink on her walls. It looks great. she loved it so much last night she danced around for an hour to the radio on her carpet. Too cute.

The table there is from a garage sale I found yesterday morning. Great deal at $2! The baskets were on clearance from Kohl's

You can see the carpet hear. It was a $40 remnant at Home Depot. And fit perfect!

That door in the corner has new trim around it just waiting to be painted.

I've got to paint trim and closet doors today and then it's DONE!

photo booth + goofy boy + snuggling =

Silly pictures!

I win mother of the year award tonight.  It's past 9, my son's still up laying in bed next to me snuggling with the electric blanket on - will is slightly concerned about what will happen if he wets the bed, and The Office is playing in the background.  Will's asking what the silly man in yellow (dwight) is doing.   Oh well.  We've been spending the past 20 minutes texting daddy in Florida and taking silly pictures on photo booth.  He looks like my brother in the top one, one the right.  crazy. 

oh... and it should be noted that Will just asked for candy, and told me that he didn't brush his teeth tonight (he had a babysitter so mommy could go out and drink wine.)  Mother of the year here I come!!! 

I *heart* blogs

Love them. If you have one, I probably want to read it. In fact, i'll add it to my google reader and then the google elves will let me know automatically when you update it. Some may find this slightly stalk-ish...but don't we already know most everything about everyone from facebook? i consider it "keeping in the loop"! Whatever. maybe it's a bit obsessive (my google reader is at 25+ blogs that I read weekly which is at least 10 shy of what it really is...)

but, on to the news. since i committed to 1 blog a day and i forgot to get the camera out today, your stuck with my random thoughts. the WHITE HOUSE HAS A BLOG. what, what? a blog? the white house? two of my favorite things this week? how could this be. it's likely written by a 17 year old who has a knack for words. but who cares?! At least an attempt to speak to us on 'our' level. this is going to be great.

Hope

Love it or hate, we got a new president today. my family shares different views on politics and since some of them read, i'll leave my own (very democratic) views out of it. but regardless of what side of the fence you sit on, i can't help but think that everyone can see the glimmer of hope that our country is carrying. hope that things will get better economically, financially, within our schools and our communities. hope. that times will get better and the weight can be lifted off of people's shoulders. hope is a powerful thing. heck, i almost named our daughter for it and made it her middle name for a reason. Our little family knows all to well what hope can do to keep our heads and hearts believing that the best is possible. hope can motivate us to do great things. to believe in the power of good and that the best case is out there. i hope that this president inspires and moves this generation to have hope in the system and to believe that we are still a country of dreamers and great people with great ideas that can do great things. i have never felt particularly patriotic but today ... well, we need a new flag rob!

Mexican food with good friends

Uncle Steve's sister, Louisa, is in town from England.

Last time she was here she brought Luca who is almost a year younger than Will. The two of them had fun playing cars and reading books. Will remember Luca fondly and all summer long we had long conversations of how he could get across the ocean to see Luca again. He made his tree house and rope swing into a super rope swing that would push him all the way to England (across the pond he would say) so that he could see Luca. It was very sweet. So, Will was excited to see Louisa this time, like a little connection to Luca. Last night we had dinner with Louisa, Aunt Lyndsey, and Laura. It was taco night and what a feast we had. I should have taken a picture of the guacamole that Laura made. It was delicious! It took a bit for Will to warm up to everyone. He has such a time adjusting when people come over, especially if they are new that by the time he's all comfrotable, they're ready to go home! Tonight it took a few minutes to warm up. It didn't make it any easier when Will jumped up on the counter and spilled over a bottle of wine, creating an attention getting racket! Oh Well. Both he and Addison had such fun with new faces. At one point an evil spider took over the house and thank goodness Laura was there to save us all! And Addison, well she put on a show as usual. It was like the baby paprazzi was out in force with the cameras flashing.


Addison in her fairy wings. The outfit of choice for the evening.


Will concentrating hard on his pooping toys that Aunt Lyndsey got him for Christmas. They "poop" out jelly beans. Lovely.


Those eyes are to DIE for!


Addison has this thing she does with her lips, like pursing them when she puts on lip gloss - or lips as she kindly refers to it. Aunt Lyndsey had new 'lips' tonight and couldn't help but share. Addison then proceeded to walk around with pursed lips for the rest of the evening. And that picture is of Aunt Lyndsey trying to purse he lips. She needs practice.


Here's a good picture of her scar. Did i post about the Christmas fall? I can't even remember I meant to...and that likely means that I didn't. Soon.

A trip to the airport

Rob left for a work trip on Sunday morning. We all drove him out to the airport and said good bye at the terminal. Will was sad this time he left, saying "I'll miss you but I won't cry daddy" every time we brought it up to him. He would follow that by a break in eye contact and some tears welling up in his eyes. So cute. Rob stopped over first in Indiana to visit family and is then off to a tradeshow in Florida.

While he's gone, I'm trying to take a picture a day to capture what he's missing at home. We all know how good I am at doing anything consistently everyday, but here goes. You should note that there are 3 new posts today, to make up for the past 3 days he's been gone. I always have the best of intentions!


That's Will trying to reason with Rob about why we should go inside and watch the airplanes.

Miss you daddy!