Finishing a basement… the saga continues.

February 4, 2009 By 3 Comments

So my first post about this was all about destroying or gutting the basement. This house was built in 1959 and I swear to God that the basement had not been updated since then.

Well now that the basement is gutted, we have begun to form an image of what it may look like.  I don’t know what happens to men when they start talking finished basements. All of a sudden we’re getting speakers built into walls and a wet bar, when all I wanted were cream walls and a light floor. I mean if this was the house we were going to live in for the rest of our lives (that’s another blog post in itself) then, i really would let him do what he wanted. But this is what he’s shown me so far:

Black

And:

Palm tree's

 

And:

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Now I had to remind him that we’re building a basement, not an office space. And I’m not putting black on the walls or rocks on the floor, and by no means are we going to have fake palm tree’s.  I don’t mind the last one, and we’ll just replace the Crown with wine :) But I digress…

This is what I want:

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And:

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So you see our dilemma. It’s a little hard to compromise when you see the difference in vision here. Now i’ve got him to budge on the black walls and rocks, we just have to see how much more I can get him to budge… Any suggestions??

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February 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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We have achieved crawling

February 2, 2009 By 4 Comments

It only took him 10 months 3 weeks and 5 days to do it, but he’s finally mobile.

He has been pulling himself up on every and anything for the past 2 months but now, he is on the move. Mind you he still doesn’t like it. I think he’d prefer to walk. Get gets in a downward dog facing position and tries to push himself up. He also squats and tries to push himself up that way.

So we had to finally get gates. I know I won’t get any sympathy from mom’s who had babies that have crawled early, and I’m not asking for any, but I’m kind of at a loss. We have not baby proofed at all. No wait, I lie… we put those plastic things in the outlet’s.

Now we decided we need to contain him. Maybe that was the first mistake. We bought a gated yard thing. Which makes me feel like he’s in a pig pen. I’m sure he feels the same way, cause he pulls himself up on it and cries instead of playing within it. I have tried sitting in there with him and playing with his toys but he just wants to climb on top of me. I think i’ll unfold it and put it against the electronic stuff. There are just so many wires from all of the “toys” we have that it’s just not safe to let him roam.  Once the basement is done, things will be much better, but the basement won’t be done until June. So back to square one.

He is also going after anything that is NOT his toy. This is driving me absolutely bonkers because we have mountains of toys.

But YAY (please detect the sarcasm) he’s crawling. But look, in the picture the kids are HAPPY to be there! I bet they took that photo within the first 30 seconds of those kids being in there to get a happy look in their face:

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Why I’ll never be Martha Stewart

February 1, 2009 By 2 Comments

Now that we have a son, I thought it would be nice if he “made” something for his daddy on his birthday.  I had a wonderful Idea while i was at Walmart in the baby section (of all places, don’t even get me started on how much I hate Walmart.)

I saw a baby hand imprinting kit that is a photo frame, and thought.. Perfect! Yes, it would have been if I wasn’t the worlds worst crafty person.  I mean my MIL is fantastic, she makes beautiful hand made cards, handmade gifts for all her kids each year and is an all around  very talented craftswoman. I also have friends who scrapbook and knit or something to that effect, but i’d rather write a blog post, or update a website, or play video games, or cook (ok I’d rather do anything) to get out of doing something crafty.

Its not that I don’t like to do crafty things. I’m just not that organized to make it go really well. I seem to always forget to read some instruction and let’s face it I’m not a perfectionist so what I make usually looks like a 5 year old did it.

Now this is what the hand imprint is supposed to look like:

what it's supposed to look like

And this is what it does look like:

my crappy version

 

I also wish I wrapped presents like this:

 present

 

But they always come out like this:

my actual wrapping job

 

Why? Because I simply do not care to try to make it look nice. It’s  just not a priority for me. I envy those who take pride our of their craftiness, and find joy in doing something pretty.  For me, it’s a burden. I’m also not one of those who will go have someone wrap stuff for me, I do it all last minute. So really I only have myself to blame.  My husband however wraps like this:

 pres2

 

 

But it takes an hour for him to wrap one present.

I would also not recommend doing the imprint thing on your own, I had plaster everywhere. I followed instructions had warm soapy water to wash his hand off afterwards, I put petroleum jelly on his hand before etc.  But we managed to get it all over his clothes, on the floor, on me (and I mean in my hair, on my face, and on the table. It was a freaking mess. Not only was it a mess, he kept digging his fingers in the plaster and messing up the “perfect” hand I was hell bent on capturing.

Exhibit A:

the clothes

Oh well. Maybe i’ll attempt it again, with his foot. Or when he’s sleeping. But next time i’ll get help from someone!

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