More Photos of the New House

These photos are from the MLS listing for the house. They're really crummy photos, but it'll give you an idea. By now all the flooring is gone and the baseboards on the first floor are gone. It pretty much looks like a construction site. But by the end of next week, it'll be painted and have wood floors in the first floor. Enjoy!

View from the street

Part of the basement (it's 1000 sq ft total!)
The big section of the garage (I get a three car garage!)
Looking into the kitchen from the family room (that linoleum floor is already gone)
Looking into the family room from the kitchen
Looking toward the loft and kitchen from the living room
Looking toward the dining room from the living room
Looking down into the living room and entry from the loft (that linoleum entry is already gone)
The back yard
The loft

The master bath (yeah, needs some remodeling)
The master bedroom

The place already looks very different.  I can't wait to see it all redone!  We already have plans to redo the half bath by the family room and update the kitchen.  The master bath will probably be next after that.

Quin's First Trip To The Movies

Since Quin's second birthday passed, we've allowed him to watch some TV. It's almost exclusively animated movies. His absolute favorite is Finding Nemo (good thing, cause it's a great movie). Nemo is followed closely by The Jungle Book. He even loves to sing the "Bear sessies, simple bear sessies, forget worry strife" song.

Since he clearly likes animated movies so much, and he sits very still and is well behaved, last weekend we thought we'd try something new. We took him to the movies to see how he'd do. We saw Madagascar 2. Elizabeth and I loved the first one, and the second one was great too. Quin did wonderful! He sat still, snuggled with us, and ate Red Vines. He was so cute in his little booster seat sipping on his little drink! This of course was peppered with giggles. I don't know what he was laughing at because all the humor is adult humor, but he sure thought something was funny.

Turns out he was the most well behaved kid in the theater. We were a little concerned how he'd do, and went in fully prepared to leave before the movie ended. But we got to see all of it.

We will definitely be making more family trips to the movies.

Silly Face

As you know, Quin is a silly boy.  Lately, however, he has become even sillier and has a face to go with it:

This picture really doesn't do the silly face justice.  The best part is that he will make the face on command.  Simply ask him to make the silly face, and he does!  I wonder how our boy got to be so silly??!!

Happy Halloween

A few days late, but better late than never, we wanted to wish everyone Happy Halloween.  Quin was Uncle Sam this year, which we thought was fitting since it is an election year.  Let me say, this kid made the best Uncle Sam I have ever seen (although I could be a little biased).  He even knew to say "I want you" and point his finger!  The world (or at least those houses that we visited) must have agreed that he was pretty cute since he made out like a bandit in the candy department.  We hope that everyone had a great Halloween!     

Family Fun

A few weeks ago, we went to a fall festival for a fun filled family afternoon.  As was intended, we all had a great time, especially Quin.  He got to run around in a huge corn maze, eat cotton candy, pet a variety of animals at the petting zoo, ride (be pushed) on a tri-cycle track, watch a pig race, and play in a corn kernel box (think sand box, but filled with corn kernels instead of sand).  What's not to like about all of that!!  It's days like this that make family time so special.

He did have one slightly traumatic event that he is still re-telling to anyone that will listen: it happened to involve a donkey and his fingers.  We were feeding a very sweet, gentle mannered donkey some corn when it inadvertently bit him.  Now, he often exclaims out of the blue "donkey bites you".  I know that it didn't bite him hard, because I had my had wrapped around his, but regardless he is now slightly afraid of donkeys.  Poor kid!  Overall, he loved the animals (as always). 

The cotton candy was a hilarious experience.  I highly recommend feeding all small children cotton candy at some point, just to see what they do with it.  Quin loved every gooey morsel and was a sticky, pink mess by the end.  It was great.

What kid doesn't love the sand box?!  Well, the corn kernel box lets kids dig and bury things without all of the mess of sand.  (Corn is also a lot easier to get out of a diaper after playing.)  Quin loved it!   

The tri-cycle track was pretty cute.  Kids got to ride John Deer tri-cycles around a track and race each other.  I had to push Quin since his little legs weren't quite long enough, but he had a great time regardless.

I don't remember ever being in a corn maze as big as the one at Harvest Farms.  This particular maze covered over 12-acres and was great, with lots of twists and turns.   Amazingly, Quin walked the entire way!  He was pooped after that and and needed to get home to bed.