Wonderful silence!!

The birds are gone. For the bargain price of $102, we have eliminated the birds (humanely) and capped the fireplace. The silence is wonderful. The cats are disappointed...but they'll get over it. The house is slowing coming together. Garage sale date has been set. Walls are painted, pictures and mirrors are making their way back on the wall and Jordana's room is almost finished. I think we will start having her nap in there this weekend. The only hurdle...we need to find a local chapter of Pacifiers anonomous. Jordana is way hooked on them. The past 2 nights she has woken up crying because they fell out of the crib. They fall out all the time but it never bothered her. I think maybe she is starting to figure out the baby thing. Last night, while changing a poopy diaper, she pointed at me and said "my mommy", then pointed at my belly and said "not the baby's mommy". Uh oh......

Potty training....

Not going so well, but makes for some cute photos!! Spending the weekend with Daddy sure tuckers Jordana out!!!

Disaster area.

There is no other way to describe the state of my house. A complete and total disaster. We will not be having house guests for a while. It started with the mess in the bedroom, from the leak, then it followed upstairs when we had to empty the attic closet into the game room to stop the flood. Then my office was affected when I came home from CKU and decided to revamp my office and purge the stuff I don't use. Then the mud room and utility room and guest bathroom, because the painters were coming. So as of today, the master bedroom is back in one piece, Jordana's bedroom and bathroom is painted and so is the mudroom area. The cracks in our walls, including the hole at the bottom of the stairs where the fish went thru, have all been fixed. Randy has been cleaning the master and rearranging furniture. He finished Jordana's new bedroom but we need to get the carpet cleaned before we completly move her in. My office clean out has been a slow process....but I am 6 months pregnant. I have to take lots of breaks. After we finish downstairs, we are going to rearrange the stuff in our 2 attic closets. The final solution....a garage sale to get rid of all this crap we have accumulated over the years. I hope to do this in late July or early August. I have a ton of scrap stuff to sell, 3 computers and lots of random stuff (including 4 boxes of hangers!!!) Of course we will not be selling much baby stuff....just some stained pieces and some old toys.
I hope to post some pix next week from CKU and a few of the family.

Ahh.....relief!

Today, I got goose bumps. it was not from hearing or seeing someting....or some reaction. It was from the new air conditioner that was installed downstairs this morning. Finally....11 days later. Now if we could get the master bedroom back in order.....