Good news!

Tom may have found the original baseboard for Lucius' room in our garage!!! Isn't that the most exciting news ever?

One thing that the previous owners did right!

Clapping

Alice started clapping this week!

Old room, new room

My friends, Susan and Blake, cam to visit this weekend to help paint Lu's room. It was so great to see them and so great of them to help with this monster of a project!

Lu's room had awful 70s wood panelling. For the past two years I would just shake my head in disgust every time I entered his room.

This is what it looked like when we moved in.



Here's what Lu's been living with for 2 years.



Here we are working on it.

Taking off the last horrible piece of paneling!


Filling the millions of nail holes and priming the marker lines. Yes, they outlined the panels with black marker so the white wall wouldn't show through.


Tada!

It now looks a million times better.


I still need to pain the trim, ceiling, and put up new baseboard. I didn't realize that the baseboard on there was plastic until I started ripping it off.
I'll eventually put in white electrical sockets and plates.

Babysitting Duty

Well, Tom and I made it to our first research conference together (woohoo!) in Brooklyn, NY. When we got there we realized that it was the first time we've been away from the kids TOGETHER IN FOUR YEARS! How does that happen?



Of course, Cindy, Jagee, and Sitty all ended up getting the bad stomach bug from Typhoid Alice but they all survived.

(this picture was actually taken this weekend while visiting VA. Jagee always makes the best sundaes.)


Chillin with Jage

Healthy Again.

The kids appear to be healthy again. Alice is turning into a little ham. I love her cheesy smile and goofy laugh.



Here's a picture that Aunt Cindy took while she was babysitting.

I hate stomach viruses.

The last two weeks have been rough, especially for Miss Alice. It started last Wednesday (2/24)with a double ear infection, followed by a 12 hour vomitting/diarrhea stomach virus for Lucius (2/28) which quickly went through Tom, then Alice, then me. Tom and I had to go to a conference on Thursday night (3/4) so my parents and sister graciously agreed to come and babysit the kids while we were gone. You guessed it. My sister got the virus first, followed by my Mom, and now we're just waiting for my Dad. After five days poor Alice is still pooping water (sorry for the visual!). What a mess! I don't think it's helping that she's on heavy duty antibiotics for her ear infection...which I'm not sure will even be cured due to the stomach virus. Ack.

Summer can't come soon enough!

I should point out that Alice turned 11 months at some point during this whole mess. I can't believe she'll be 1 in one short month. I feel like I just had her a couple of months ago.