The Birthday baking began today. First started off with baking the cake layers for Thursday and tossed them in the freezer. Then onto making cupcakes this evening for Aidan to take to school as a snack with some healthy choices too. The picture below shows the cupcake that was made by Logan. Doesn't it look tasty?!
Luckily it baked well and was actually edible and just a little bit funny looking.
We did not need all 18 cupcakes for school so we saved 6 for ourselves. Aidan enjoyed his!
Logan our picky eater...did not really touch his. You see it on the fork? It never left it. The icing on his face Andrew smeared on there for his to "taste" some. Logan is more of a salty foods guy versus sweet....unless it's ice cream or chocolate.
Aidan is as excited as we are...well we're "relieved" to have the room complete enough to sleep in. Thursday night was bittersweet for me. Aidan asked me to lay with him (like normal) for a few minutes and I layed there thinking, "This is the last time I will lay with him in this room." Bright and early Friday morning we started dismantling his bed and Andrew brought it into the new room. Aidan was super excited to see this and then walked into the nursery (what we are trying to call it right now so there is no ownership of it) and looked at the old bed frame and said, "OH NO MY BED??!!!!!!" We told him, "Remember, it's in your Big Boy Room!" He smiled and seemed as good as gold with that response. Two naps and two nights of sleep later in the Big Boy Room he seems more than fine with it. Friday night he got up to pee around 1am and headed right back to the new room did not even make a slight bend towards his old one. He talks about it all the time. Aidan helped place all the decals on the wall and sometimes he received a little direction, but mostly he picked the engines out and told me/helped me where to put them. I am not completely done with this room, there are a few more pictures I want to hang, a shelf or two I want to get. I still have to clear coat his bookshelf we bought for him and I think I might paint his lamp base.
Now the "to do" list is rearranging stuff and reorganzing the MOUNTAINS of clothing we have. Right now they are filling the nursery. I am going through stuff that will fit Daniel right now and soon will be putting it in Aidan's new dresser. There are bins and clothes everywhere!! We have a busy busy week coming up here!! At least we have one GIANT to do off the list. :-)
Here is the progression from last Friday through 6 am this morning. Yes, 6 am. There are NOT enough hours in the day. Andrew is (Thankfully) super busy at work and is gone long hours. The Boys are wild ones and some nights it takes FOREVER for Aidan to calm down. So, our working on the Big Boy Room time has been limited especially to us getting the downstairs rennovation done so we could have a place to put all the things in the room.
Anwyays, the pictures are in chronological order. I got the chair and baseboards taped yesterday afternoon while Logan "helped" me so it took A LOT longer than it could have. We then still had to measure the stripes which we did once the Boys got to bed. Then once they were taped it was 11:40 pm but we're so close why stop now??! SOOOO....by 1am we're done and climbing into bed. Crazy Preggo Carrie says, why not get the second coat of blue done early in the AM while the kids are still asleep. This way we can paint the chair tonight (which blogging is keeping me from doing...well that and the fact Aidan is doing his nightly 55 pee's a night ritual. I think his bladder is the size of a peanut...but hey...he sleeps in his undies in dry sheets consistently pretty well since he's been potty training since June. I've heard people that at a year after potty training started their kids are still in a pull up type deal. Aidan HATES pull ups. Only underpants..on a rare occasion does he request a pull up and 98% of the time it is dry in the morning...I am sure with my saying this we will change wet sheets at some odd hour tonight. OK, enough with the tangent..) So the painting the chair will commence shortly and luckily will be "fast" compared to all the other painting that is done. Aidan it pretty super excited. We'll see how he feels when he's ready to go to sleep in there this weekend. He's pretty excited about it and him and Logan spend a good hour or so a day running around in the room. He seems to understand and is excited about sleeping in there. He actually answers us when we ask him if he wants to sleep in there instead of his " yeeeeaaah" that he gives you when he doesn't understand the question you are asking.
SO CLOSE!!
Today is Veteran's Day. We are so Thankful and extremely grateful for those who are willing to give the ultimate sacrifice for our Country. There are quite a few Veteran's in the family. We hope they know our great appreciation for the work they have done for us. Thank you!
Today my one of my Grandpa's is 80 today! Happy Birthday Grandpa!! We hope it is a good one!!
Logan has a new fascination with hand washing. I was talking to my Mom today and that was the time Aidan needed to use the restroom and needed some help. I went in to help and Logan makes the mad dash in our tiny tiny powder room to climb the step stool and wait to wash hands. Or so I thought...he did NOT want to wait. So three of us crammed in a tiny space, Aidan singing, I am on the phone and Logan is shouting a new phrase, 'I DO IT!" I don't know how many times he repeated it and each time was MUCH louder of a demand than the last. My Mom left me to be take care of the crazy and reminded me, "Don't forget to wash Logan's hands!" He was really hilarious...a tad overwhelming but pretty darn funny.
Tonight when Andrew got home I got Logan to do it again, not the caliber he was this afternoon but, enough for Andrew to get to see it. I thought...WAIT...let's get the camera...well, the excitement pretty much diminished by that point and when I sat down to ask him what he wanted to do he turned looked at me and jumped off the step stool for me to catch him. Again, our bathroom is super small but it's still not very safe to jump off a step stool.
Tonight was also a "Breakfast for Dinner" night. The Boys LOVE bacon. Here is Logan showing us how much he likes it. He does usually EVENTUALLY eat his food but prefers this method. This is also the method he uses when he pretends to eat after cooking at the kitchen set.
The collage above shows the steps Andrew and I took yesterday to take this project on the home stretch. We sent the Boys to my Parent's for the day and worked kid free. We top two rows show the evolution of the toy room and the bottom row is the office. The pictures below are the end result minus all of the furniture and pictures etc. But, to where the rooms are completely functional. We still want to put french doors on the office however, that requires framing down the opening so we can hang doors. That will be sometime but not right now. Right now, the rooms are functional. When we fram down the doorway, that will require more building, drywall , moulding and painting all over again. We are not 100% satisfied with our work but at that time will fix the bothersome items. The toy room (dining room) to kid-less people needs the light relocated but, that will be done eventually too and should be a "quick" weekend project. For now it turns on and off and is swagged so no adults knock themselves out on it. :-)
We did not need all 18 cupcakes for school so we saved 6 for ourselves. Aidan enjoyed his!
