Olivia and I have been busy helping out at a neighbor's home daycare. She is a surrogate mother, pregnant with twins. Her surrogate contract specified that she could hire someone to work her daycare if she went on bed rest. Which she did, 2 weeks ago! We spend around 30 hours a week at her house. She has 2 boys of her own (ages 4 and 2), plus 4 daycare kids that come at different times during the week. Most of the kids are 4 and 5, which is nice. They looooove Olivia and Avry. It's been good for Olivia, although she hasn't really been napping over there. She loves the dress up clothes at their house:
She had the babies last night, so I'm not sure how much longer we'll be there. It's definitely been nice to have some extra money for all the traveling we're planning for this summer!
Our latest Craigslist find:
She loves this trampoline! It's the first thing she runs to in the morning (note the morning hair and blankie):
Nice way to burn some energy!
We've had a few days of cold weather and even some snow yesterday. Normal spring weather around here, but we would have loved to work outside today. Instead, we shopped for shoes for Michael and made a trip to Costco. We went to Murdoch's first to look for shoes. It's kind of like a feed and tool store wrapped up in one. You can get tools, boots, clothes, even animals. We were showing Olivia the baby "chicks," when a worker informed us they were actually baby turkeys. Whoops.
Her language is exploding. She talks all the time. I don't always understand what she's saying, but you can now pick out words and get the general idea. Like this conversation we had in the car today:
Every time that Avry comes over or we go to the daycare, I have a little talk with her about being "nice" and "sharing." (We're still having major issues with sharing!) At least she's talking about it, even if she's not quite doing it yet!
Michael finished another project last week (he's on a roll!). He re tiled the guest bathroom! His first tile project. Of course, since the tile was new, we had to paint the walls and get a new light fixture (still waiting on that!). I have looked and looked, but this is the only "before" picture I can find. It's from our first showing of the house, before we bought it:
EVERYTHING was white. Vanity, floor tile, and shower tile, all white. The walls were light green. The picture is pretty forgiving, the walls were pretty bright! Here's after:
Nice! We need to add one more layer of paint and hang a light fixture before it's completely finished, but I love how it turned out. Up next: the deck! The dogs have pretty much destroyed it, plus we need to add a fence. Right now it's open right up to the pond. Not very kid friendly!
One more video- I was cooking dinner one night, when she saw the lemon juice. She pretty much demanded to try it!
Last, but not least, a very happy (belated!) 6th birthday wish to Maggie!
We hope you had a great day!
