365: March 29-April 4 AND April 5-April 11

Yeah, so I've totally skipped out on blogging lately. My thoughts are usually taken up with house things, so I haven't thought too much about blogging. At the times when I really wanted to write, I just didn't have time to do so. Therefore, you get two weeks of 365 with this post.

March 29: Of course this seems like FOREVER ago now, but this was the day Liam and I made an Easter collage. In this picture, he was drawing stars on it. At least that's what he told me they were. I can see it!

March 30: At that point, it was the weekend before we were set to close on our house. We figured we needed to start deciding on paint. I went to the local Ace Hardware to look at Benjamin Moore paint samples since I read they had all the cool colors. What's great about paint is that you can pick a color from one brand and have it made with another brand's (cheaper) paint. As of today (April 11) we still haven't decided on one single paint color!

March 31: That was Easter, and thankfully I did an Easter post already. Liam got lots of coloring supplies in his basket, and spent a lot of his waking hours that day with a crayon in hand.

April 1: I'm not sure if the apartment lawn crew was trying to play an April Fools joke on us, but throwing a rock into our sliding glass door was a good attempt at one. Our neighbor's glass door was also a victim of a rock thrown by the mower. Thankfully, it was replaced the next day and never shattered and fell apart.

April 2: Liam got this cheap bucket and gardening tool set for Easter, and has spent a lot of time playing in the dirt with it. He is happiest when there is dirt involved.

April 3: It's extremely common for Liam to stand on objects by the gate. On this day, he chose a particularly unstable (although tall) object.

April 4: Yeah, I didn't take any pictures that day, so I chose this picture of cheese I took the day before. A week later, I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to take a picture of cheese. I'm partial to Tillamook cheese because in sixth grade, I was pen pals with a class of sixth graders in Tillamook, Oregon. Did anyone else have pen pals? This particular one was a school activity, but I remember having at least a couple other ones during my childhood.

April 5: This was a big day for us, as it was when we closed on our first home! I will be blogging about house stuff here on this blog under the title, "Close and Cozy." Close because the house is very close to church, the library and lots of other places we love, and cozy because the house is really small. We could've bought a bigger house, but we would've paid a lot more and not have been where we want to be, so we figured if a family of four (or more) could make this house work in the fifties, then we could too! Plus, a bigger house usually just means you put more useless junk in it. Like all good new home owners, we went to Lowe's that night to start getting supplies...like a crowbar.

April 6: While Will spent most of his day at our new house changing the locks and starting some demolition, Liam and I played outside for awhile. I think he looks so adorable here! He was holding up the shovel and blowing through the hole saying, "Bubbles! Bubbles!" It looked like a bubble wand to him but sadly produced no bubbles.

April 7: We were at a friend's house for Bible Study and Liam was obsessed with these apples. He kept climbing up on the chair saying, "Apples! Apples!"

April 8: Overnight Sunday/Monday was rough. Liam threw up at bedtime and again the next morning. Throughout the day he acted fine, but wouldn't eat or drink much. As a result, he wasn't wetting enough diapers. So after his bath Monday night, I let him play diaperless hoping the freedom and the breeze would get him to go. It didn't work (thankfully?) but he was back to normal the next day.

April 9: Liam loves playing with Legos, especially building up the cars. I adore it, too. I only took a few pictures that day because we stayed home and there wasn't really anything going on. I think one reason I like Legos so much is because they're so colorful!

April 10: Since it was cold and rainy, this was another day we stayed at home. The only way Liam can look at books is if every single one of them is pulled off the shelf. In this particular Baby Einstein book, he kept pointing to the treble clef on every page and asking, "Wha dat?"

April 11: Will has done a ton of work in the house this week. At some point, I will post before and after pictures. Today was the day all the tile was being removed from the kitchen and bathrooms. With the house being close to 60 years old, we figured there was asbestos tile in the place. Over the decades, the kitchen floor has just been given layers of new tiles over the old ones, resulting in a too tall floor. We didn't want to get it all up ourselves and discover a cancerous surprise at the bottom, so we hired professional asbestos removers. I didn't take this picture. It was e-mailed to us by the work crew. And they did find asbestos material at the very bottom of the kitchen floor, but I'm not sure if they found any in the bathrooms. Since one of the bathrooms was added at a later date, we figured the chance of asbestos tile in there was pretty slim, but it was just more convenient to have it all done at once.