Holidays: Halloween - Part Two

Holidays: Halloween

Carving Pumpkins!!!!


Every year Kevin carves Pumpkins with the kids. They love the idea of getting all dirty with "pumpkin guts"; but when it comes down to it and they actually touch them they want nothing to do with it. But it still makes for some cute pictures.

Five Years, Three Weeks, Five Days...

Sleep training is beginning today. Alekzander has not slept through the night in his own bed in over a month. So today I decided to lay him in his bed still awake and see how long I can hold out before I go in there to get him.

It is very difficult to share my bed with a toddler; and I knew that this would be very difficult for him because he is very stubborn. Right now he is not crying he is screaming at the top of his lungs!!!

On another note, we recieved results for Elysabeth's test. They found something on her EEG. We are waiting to hear back from the Neurology department from TCH in order to recieve more details as well as how we are going to proceed with the finding.

Projects: Elysabeth's Room

So Elysabeth officially got her own room last weekend! Originally when Zander was born they shared a room and nobody was sleeping! Inevitablly one or the other woke up in the middle of the night always waking the other requiring two parents to get out of bed (one for each kid). The system was not working for us. I was very reluctant to utilize the room we had set up as an office as one of the kids rooms because its on the side of the house that faces the main street of the neighborhood. But for the sake of sanity I had to give in.

We had already built and moved into the room a hand-me-down Pottery Barn bunk bed given to us and the matching dresser. However the room still housed Elysabeth's old crib (that we moved in there for Zander to sleep in before we switched Elysabeth over), my desk with Kevin's computer (that included two monitors) and the shelf with both printers and all the networking boxes.

After taking furniture apart and moving it into the garage and rearranging the furniture to make it hers I wished I would have taken a before picture...but sadly I did not. So here are the after pics:

The toile fabric is from her nursery. I always intended for elements from the nursery be used in her big girl room.

My friend Susannah made this for Elysabeth for her christening. It's a magnet board!

I made this to hang Elysabeth's play clothes. Super easy to make... One piece of wood and 4 drawer knobs.

I painted the wood (we bought it at Home Depot; its supposed to be for house numbers) black to match the magnet board. I got the drawer knobs at Target. Simply drilled 4 holes in order to insert the drawer knobs, added hanging hooks to the back. I'm thinking that I want to add something else to it but I haven't figured out just what yet. Any ideas or suggestions feel free to comment below.