Renovations

I know...we are constantly doing renovations. We are in the homestretch on the main floor of our new house. The electrician has come and gone, the drywall is hung, and the texture goes on tomorrow. We are busy painting and filling in the tile floor where we took the wall out between the kitchen and the dinning room. We hope to be done with phase one of renovations in just two weeks. Then we plan to take a break on remodeling for awhile.....ahhh we can't wait.

New hallway to Jude's room - will be a floor to ceiling bookshelf for much needed book storage
Jude's new wall and closet - this used to be another living room on the main floor and we made half of it into a bedroom and other half will be the master bathroom.

No more wall between the kitchen and dining room! Woo Hoo!

Can't wait to repaint that mauve wall in the kitchen

Ball Popper

The ball popper is judes very favorite toy. No matter what his mood he will watch in awe and giggle at the site of the ball popper. He wimpers and crys when the music stops and I think that this toy was responsible for motivating Jude to sit up on his own. Thanks aunt sam and uncle nick....what a hit!

Pumpkin head

Jude got to wear his pumpkin hat from our neighbors in Omaha for the first time this weekend. (We finally found the box with Judes clothes in the mass of boxes still sitting in our garage). We found the box just in time because we got our first dusting of snow this weekend and it is clear that winter is upon us. We spent most of the weekend working on the house, catching up on work and time with Jude, and staying warm next to the fire.

I will miss....

my boys. I am headed to Wayne NE for work and will spend my first night away from my boys since Jude was born. Luckily I will be heading home on Friday night. Anyone can make it two days and one night away....right?

Jude is 5 months

Jude is over 5 months old! He has been a trooper dealing with all of the change in the past few months ad holding strong during the last push of our house renovation. He is sitting up on his own with the occasional tip over, laughing and smiling a lot, trying his hardest to get moving and learning that he has his parents wrapped around his finger!

New Tricks

Jude really wishes he could just get moving. He can roll just about anywhere but is beginning to be discontent with this mode of transportation. He has been pushing himself up pretty high with his hands for a few weeks and then this weekend he started lifting his whole body up off the floor like he is doing a push up, but he has not figured out how to put his knees beneath him yet. It is only a matter of time - hopefully more later than sooner because we are not ready to deal with a mobile baby yet!

Change....

We closed on our house on Friday. As promised - a few pictures of our new house. These were taken during our home inspection with the previous owners belongings still inside. It is on my to do list to take some pictures of the inside now that it is empty. I actually wanted to take pictures before we started the renovations, but guess I am too late. We ripped our carpet and took down kitchen cabinets today already (lets hope that progress continues). But you will get the jist of the inside from these shots. I will take some pictures this week and show you the inside in progress.

I love the screened in porch....
Kitchen - we have big plans for this - the wall on the left side of the picture is coming out.
Dining room - the wall on the right is the one that is coming out to open the kitchen up to the dining room.
Bedroom 1
Living Room
More pictures to come.....

Giggles

We are exhausted from a whirlwind weekend. We celebrated my birthday on Friday, closed on our house, moved all of our belongings out of storage and into the garage of our new house, and started the renovations. After a long weekend, this made me smile....



Hopefully these giggles make you smile.
Pictures of the inside of the house in renovation mode coming soon.

Thanks Greta

There are two girls at daycare that LOVE Jude. They are there waiting for him each morning when he arrives and if they are there when Jon or I get there to pick him up they don't want him to leave. It is super cute, but Jude only has eyes for his buddy Greta. She is so sweet to him. Jude loved his package Greta - the sweater is so cute and the card was pretty tasty....

Happy Feet

Forgotten are the toys that hang from Jude's bouncy chair. He finds more entertainment out of his feet.