Small house projects

Our dining room has built in benches along the outside wall. One of which was split and missing a portion of wood, leaving a hinge dangling. With the benches a popular dog and kid perch, it was time to fit some new wood in place. Sam helped. Matching the stain and refinishing the whole area will keep me busy.


Waiting on hinges and recessed ring pulls - the store only had a single ring pull - which I put into a storage area off the front steps, replacing a simple hole that had been there. And yes, it is recessed flush.

A leisurely walk

After a big day in pre-K, Mabel and I walked the dogs. Around the block.

The lumpy fireplace

We've never loved the fireplace in the house. The lumpy, misshapen bricks and the white with soot stains bleeding through really did not do great things for the living room. Redoing the brick will be an ordeal, so we threw a couple bucks of paint on it...

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Standing

The movement train is chugging along at our house.  Sam is now seriously practicing his solo standing.  He lets go of whatever he is holding on to and can stand for about 5 seconds before falling to his bum. He can also get to a stand by pushing off of something only a couple inches off of the floor.  He can push off of the dog bed and get to a stand. 

Any bets on when the walking will start?

Stairs and dancing

This week Sam decided to climb the stairs.  And he didn't do the old "i'll look at the stairs for a few days, then play on the first one for a few days, then try them" routine.  Nope.  He just crawled over, checked them out, then went up them.  He made it up about 5 before he slipped a smidge and sat to rest.  Then it was onward and upward.

Mabel started ballet class last week.  For all reading, if you talk to her about them please call them her "new gymnastics class."  She is very hesitant about trying new classes so I told her ballet was just a new kind of gymnastics to get her to go.  Of course she loves them and has so much fun...but if you ask her about ballet she won't know what you are talking about.

The weasel!

Dinner at our house

Tonight at dinner we were talking about someone who had a toilet shoot out sewer water and Mabel started to question the details of the incident.  After defining "sewer" and the like, Mabel made this proclamation:

"Toilets are for poop and pee....and heads."

Lordy.