Month: July 2015
This one keeps us on our toes. I knew she liked water, but this time at the pool she was determined to play with the big kids. She continued to walk straight towards the deep end, over and over. She would walk out till she fell face first. We would rescue her and carry her to the shallow end. She would turn around and walk right back out towards the deep end. She never once cried or got upset when she went under. She knows what she wants….
Gram had all kinds of plans for our week, but today she was adamant that we needed to go to Discovery Park in Union City. I’ll admit I was a little skeptical. How great could a kid’s museum be in Union City, TN? And if it’s so awesome how come I hadn’t heard of it before? It was fantastic! There were parts of the museum we didn’t even see and the kids could probably have stayed another few hours just at the water section. Amazing! I highly recommend you all go to Union City and check it out.
My lens arrived back from Canon last night, but I had already given up hope on it returning in time for pictures. I rented a lens last week and took the pictures I was missing for the full house tour. The only room I didn’t get photographed was my office. Wade felt that some of the items on the wall not only needed to be removed, but the holes needed to be patched. That required work being done several weeks in advance (sigh). Some of the rooms below you have seen before but these are new angles or I just like the pictures better.
In this crazy round of moving, the kids and I are leaving tomorrow for Gram’s house. Wade and I thought it might be best if we were out of the way and he stayed alone to supervise the last bit of packing. I really wanted a picture of our house full of boxes, but this was the only one I though to take and it is pretty bad…
The house never felt “full” of boxes like our last house. They were spread out or in rooms we didn’t see when we walked through the main part of the house. I can’t believe we are leaving tomorrow!?!?
Only from a boy who spent his first five years in Wisconsin…
Alex: When you keep saying the packers are coming, do you mean the football players or somebody to do with moving?
Tonight is our last night at Family Fun Night. (The packers come tomorrow.) The theme was fishing and the boys were super excited. Fishing poles and bait were provided. We stayed until Kaitlyn woke up from her stroller nap and needed her bed. It was a pretty awesome last night with our church family.
The boys each have a dresser in their room (Alex’s is red and Teague’s is blue). Alex’s dresser is part of a bedroom suite I bought in high school. It’s pine furniture but it has been fantastic furniture. I have split up the pieces and painted them different colors for different rooms throughout the years. Teague’s dresser has needed to go for years. In fact, the only reason we kept it in Milwaukee was for storage in the basement. Then we were desperate for additional clothing storage in the boys’ room and put it in as a temporary solution. For the past year I have been looking for a dresser, but really hoping to find an exact match to Alex’s. Wouldn’t you know I found one this week. I debated and debated. I finally bought it and decided to go ahead and try to get it painted before we moved. Here is the before and hopefully you’ll see an after picture before to long when we reach Chicago!
Random pictures from our day….



I love that I caught a picture of just this. Kaitlyn’s favorite way to carry her baby doll around the house. Milestone moment: Baby is the first word we say that Kaitlyn definitely demonstrates an understanding. Shortly after returning home, the boys and I were talking about her baby doll and she went to get one of the dolls. She has consistently done this and also shown a great interest in playing and loving on the dolls.
