Construction Day 5!

They did a lot of little tedious work today so it was time consuming but not much to show.
They smoothed over the walls and put... stuff over all the nails and seams in the walls haha I don't know what it is, plaster?
They put the primer over the ceiling but didn't paint all it yet, and they started fixing all the holes in the wall and ceiling. They painted the shelf and the window sill, I LOVE THIS WINDOW SILL! Don't ask why, I just do! haha and I think that's all they did today! I think they're going to start painting tomorrow, not sure, I'll post pictures ofcourse! No pics of Jo today! I know... I can't believe it either!

Construction Day 4!

Today was the 4th day of construction. They stayed until 5! Usually they leave around 2:30 or 3! They got a lot done, as usual. When I put Jo down for her nap they started working on replacing the door that goes from our kitchen to our future bedroom. This door is RIGHT outside our room where Jo was sleeping. It was sooooo loud, they wear tearing out the whole door way and using a table saw to cut the door constantly and it was just A LOT louder than usual because usually that door is closed and their working behind it in the garage. Well... Jo slept through the WHOLE thing. Not only that but she even took a longer than usual nap! haha it's like the extremely loud construction helped her sleep better, maybe I should record some of the sounds and play it while she sleeps! Imagine that?

Then when she woke up and walked out of the bedroom she saw them standing right there working and they started using the table saw. She gave them a wicked dirty look and started waving and going "bye... bye... bye" she just wanted them GONE! I thought she was going to keep getting scared or something but all of a sudden she became obsessed with watching them. She'd go sit right in the doorway and watch and nothing was startling her in the least bit! Not even the table saw or anything, she just sat there and talked to them. I kept trying to bring her into the living room so she wouldn't be in their way but she would run right back. I took my eyes off of her for 2 minutes and when I looked back she was in the middle of the room where they were working haha

Here are some cute videos from today. Here is Jo helping me wash the table, it's good to start them out young! haha

Josephine could hear Zoe the dog barking upstairs and she pointed to the ceiling, said "Ooey" and started barking like a dog. She did it long enough for me to grab the camera and catch the best part on video! Then when I ask her to do it again she gets distracted by her "ballball" which is her balloon. If she's referring to a ball she says "ball" but she has designated "ballball" just for balloons! haha



On to the construction!

They replaced the whole door way and frame and door that leads from our kitchen to our future bedroom. I REALLY like this color door, when we replace the other doors in our apartment we're going to match them to this because it looks sooo much better than the really dark doors we have.

They started the set in shelf, there is going to be 2 shelfs and they are adjustable to all different heights. I LOVE IT! I can't wait to put picture frames and all cute stuff on it! It's pretty deep too, looove it. They always got the moldings up around it.

They got the moldings up around the window as well. I also LOVE this window sill, it's so deep, it needs a nice cat sitting on it haha.


They also put up the moldings around most of the room. They hooked up all the electricity so all the outlets and the thermostat works. They also painted half the ceiling but then ran out of paint so they'll continue later. It's starting to look good!!!

Construction Day 3: COMPLETE!

I can not believe how much these guys are getting done every day! And to think they're coming back for the next 3 days... it's hard to believe they have a whole other weekend to work on it, I feel like it's going to be done before we know it! I'm definitely getting excited, I ordered the rest of the things we picked out for Jo's room, here's a preview:




In case you missed my last post the included pictures of other things we ordered, just click here and check it out! Yeah... if you can't tell, I'M EXCITED! haha

On to the construction!...

Here you can see that they put the door up. No door knob yet but that's coming! And they put up the dry wall on the outside of the diving wall.

And they put up the drywall on the inside too! Yay! That square in the wall where the insulation is exposed... that's going to be a set in book shelf!



Here you can see they put the base board heater in! And the plug part of the outlets, I'm sooo excited! They seem to get so much done every day, I can't imagine what it'll look like after the next 3 days!

Today we spent the day with Jo's boyfriend, Ayden. Ayden has more cars than a rapper featured on an episode of MTV Cribs! haha so Jo enjoyed riding in some of those with him and then they went exploring in the garden. Ayden's grandparents have the most AMAZING, professional looking garden ever... it looks like a freakin' farm with crops! I should have taken a picture of the whole thing...










Jo kept trying to pick the tomatoes off the vine! She picked a few green ones that hadn't even ripened yet haha

Construction Day 3!

Construction day 3 started today, they're working 4 days in a row so a lot is gonna get done! I'll post pictures tonight of the progress =)

Yesterday we all went on a walk with Zoe, my in-laws dog. They're on a cruise this week! So she hasn't been for a walk all week.


When we got back... I left Jo alone for TWO seconds and I come back and she has managed to get a bag of dried blueberries off of Rob's desk, dump the whole thing on the floor, and sit there and happily eat them haha


Then we went outside because sooomeone was a cranky pants...



I got these really tiny pink bins at the dollar store to put some of Jo's little nick knack toys in and this is what I found after I got back from the bathroom...

Jo trying to fit her bum in it haha! That's as far as she could get.

Library Fun!

Yesterday I decided to take Jo on a walk to the public library. We've been there once before and they have a cute baby/toddler room. Figured it'd be a good way to get Jo out of the house for awhile. It was somewhat disastrous! I sorta forgot exactly where it was and had to ask 2 people for directions so we sorta walked out of our way. It's REALLY not a bad walk if you know exactly where it is, which I now do. Then, there are 2 ways to get back, both equal distances back to the house and I took the way that I didn't take on the way there. BIG MISTAKE! It took me... wait for it... TWENTY MINUTES TO CROSS THE STREET! Yes, 20 minutes! It was such a busy street with never ending traffic going every way. I pressed the button to cross the street and when it said walk, not all the sides of the intersection stopped! I'm like umm, how am I supposed to cross the street? It stops 2 sides but the other 2 just go full speed. What am I supposed to do? I walk down the street a little bit to where it's just 2 lanes of traffic not an intersection but there was not a break in the flow of cars at all and no one was letting me go. Finally, 20 minutes later, I cross NOT AT A CROSSWALK which usually I would never do because one side of the street had no cars coming and the other side a lady was letting me go. When I go across, a guy sitting on the steps of a store said to me "How long did it just take you to cross the street?" the answer? "A LONG TIME!" haha needless to say, I'll never take that way back again!!!




Check out those chairs if you can see them, they're very neat! And I don't know why Jo is giving me such a funny look in the last picture haha she looks so uncomfortable or something!

One of Jo's favorite activities is to empty the little DVD stand we have in the kitchen that holds all of the "Jo DVDs" she does this numerous times a day and I clean it up just to let her do it again a little later. But, it has taken her a very long time for her to find the tiny cabinet on the bottom. I'm surprised it took her this long! I guess it just blends in! So she found my hiding spot for little odd and ends that I have no other place for. Good thing everything was baby friendly!

Tuesday & Wednesday

Yesterday was a very mellow day for us. We hung around while I moved furniture all over the place and then we took a walk to the playground. Then we went outside to wait for Daddy to come home from work! Jo said "dada" a few times when she first started saying "mama." But then she stopped and didn't say "dada" for a really long time and every time I'd say "can you say 'dada'?" she'd say "caca!" haha so it was a big joke for awhile. But these past few days, as you saw in that video in my last post, she has started saying "dada" quite often! And ever since she has become a Daddy addict! So all day yesterday while Rob was at work, Jo would bang on the bedroom door from time to time and go "dada???" she thought he was in there sleeping! Then when we went outside to wait for him she'd point to every car that'd go by and say "dada?" then when it went by she'd wave and say "buhbye" it was the cutest thing in the world! Then when she finally got it right and his car was actually coming down the street she started flipping out when she saw it was him. She was HYSTERICALLY laughing! It was just so funny, I wish I had my camera!

So we have a problem over here. We were storing a lot of furniture in the garage that is to go in either our new bedroom or Jo's new room. Problem is, we had to move it all out of the way to clear the back of the garage for them to work... so we have furniture but none of the 2 rooms they're going in are done! haha so I managed to squeeze some things into the front of the garage but our TV stand will have to be in our kitchen until our new room is finished. There is just no where else for it to go! So here is Jo climbing into it when it was on it's side waiting for me to move it into the corner...



That brings us to today... today is a VERY special day. TODAY... I MADE HISTORY! haha okay maybe not "history" but that's what it feels like to me! For the first time in a long time... I have NO dishes in the sink and NO dishes piled up on the counter drying waiting to be put away... AT THE SAME TIME! This does not happen often, something is ALWAYS in the sink and something is ALWAYS on the counter drying. You see, I do not have a dish washer... so I do everything by hand. But I have to say... if I have another kid, I might have to invest in one!
Here it is... in all it's glory!



And this, my friends, is why I was able to accomplish such a feat..




I always let Jo make a mess but it just usually doesn't entertain her for this long!

And here is how we knew it was time for a nap.

Red, White, And Blue

When I put this outfit on Jo, I thought she looked sooo cute! It reminds me of the 4th of July.




Today we went to Home Depot to order the carpet for our room. Carpet is sooo expensive... I literally got the cheapest one they had... other than the stuff you can get cut off the roll right there, that was actually only 55 cents a square foot! But they didn't have any neutral colors so we had to look at swatches and special order one. The guy said "What kind of carpet are you looking for?" and I said "the cheapest one you have." haha it was $1.19 a square foot I think, but I like it! It's really not bad at all. I'm so excited for Friday and for the contractors to come back and start working again! haha Here is a cute picture of Jo on the ride to Home Deport and the grocery store...


And here is a GREAT video I captured this morning. I got Jo to say most of the words she knows. We missed a few but I got most of them and I'm so glad because I suck at getting things on video, I always miss everything! I love the way she says "baby" it's just so adorable so I try to get her to do it again at the end but she was too distracted, I lost her haha.