May 2006 - Posts
I made good progress on the house yesterday. It rained all day so I wasn’t able to work outside cleaning up the bead board as I’d hoped. Instead, I made a trip to the HD and got the supplies I needed to continue working on our new first-floor half-bath.
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Guess what (or more succinctly, ‘who’) has been keeping us busy? Atticus. He’s a full-time job. Diapers, cradling, feeding, entertaining. And, to my chagrin, he’s not much of a helper with the house projects still. At 3 weeks old, you’d think he could
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As Atticus was napping I heard a huge truck on our street and could feel the vibrations in the house. I looked out the window to see a large fire truck backing up our street. (We live on a dead-end street, so this is uncommon unless it's a true emergency.)
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Someone should invent a one-handed keyboard for laptops - useful when you've got your newborn (sleeping) on one arm, and an urge to blog about yesterday's project. Which wasn't all that exciting. I painted the upstairs hallway ceiling and walls, which
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Atticus Nicholas Hodapp was born Thursday afternoon and weighed in at 9 pounds 12 ounces. He and mother are are healthy. We’re just home from the hospital awaiting Nana and Grandpa who are arriving from Wisconsin. Atticus is 22.5" tall, has a 14.5" head,
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So things are progressing, albeit slowly, on this baby thing. If I am not in active labor by tomorrow morning, they will schedule me for an induction. So once we got home from the hospital today, Nick and I started to put the second coat of paint on the
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Recently Trissa mentioned on the blog that we have a new project in the wings. We expected to get this project under way by the end of April, but somehow we missed our mark. Today we’re officially a week and a day late on that project, or rather, the
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The upstairs hallway is cleaned up, the floor has a light sanding and the trim has been painted. Nick patched some cracks in the plaster so that should be dry by tonight. Then we'll sand, wash down the walls and then paint the walls and ceiling. We'll
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