Here's what we have been up to the last couple of months: fixing up our home.
Thought it would be a longer list than that? I am sure we have done more aside from our home but truthfully up until a couple weekends ago we were using our Saturdays as wood floor shopping days. Who knew picking out the right wood flooring could be so tedious and time consuming! But I am thrilled that we picked them out and had them installed this last week (Mohawk brand, Santa Barbara, Mocha Maple). And they are perfect! Not too dark and enough contrast and interest in the boards to cover up the inevitable dings and scratches that will happen in the years to come. In January I painted our master bathroom a light gray then the next day Justin and I painted our hall bathroom a mossy green color. In February I tried my hand at painting our outdated orange oak bathroom cabinets a darker shade of gray than the walls. That process took a week! Although I did my best to be patient and do things the best I could, two coats of primer and two coats of paint (with sanding in between each coat). We finally found some chairs for our front room (Overstock Outlet in Sandy has been quite kind to us and our small budget, love that place!) and a leather bench for our bedroom. Now we are trying to figure out what color to paint our front room and find a sofa and rug as well. But we are probably going to shift our focus to vamping up our curb appeal this Spring more so than the inside of the home. I love being able to invest our time and money into our home to make it our own. Here are some pics of the progress:
Caleb has been really taking off with his gross motor development lately. A few weekends ago I worked with him to go from sitting on the stairs to walking around the room and that seems to have been the confidence boost he needed. Now when we go into stores (if they aren't big stores) I will just have him walk while holding on to my hand. But even today he kept letting go of my hand to explore on his own. I sure hope we can get him consistently walking in time for our "outside-every-day" kind of days, I do not love the idea of worn out knees and dirt covered hands from crawling on our driveway/yard. He now sits in a booster seat at our dining table and uses toddler-size utensils to feed himself. Hallelujah! He mimicks everyone and everything. Sounds, gestures, laughs-its pretty cute and funny. Justin took a post-it out of his pants pocket yesterday and gave it to Caleb, who in turn, folded it back up and put it in his own pants pocket. I know he isn't developmentally where he should be at this time but I love seeing him progress and learn each day, he is my sweet little man!
Justin's birthday is next week and we have BIG plans to celebrate. I will post on that after the celebrations end :-)
