House Renovations, Isaac gets rid of the paci, & Rose gets bananas!

It's been pretty busy and hectic over here the past 1-2weeks, and will continue to be for at least another 3ish weeks. We are finally in the process of fixing up things around the house that we have been talking about for a while now. This includes ripping out the current trim so we can replace it with oak trim later, repainting the dining room and kitchen, and putting in hardwood floors, which is a process that will take a few weeks to complete on it's own since Matt is really only able to work on it during the weekend.

Matt already has completed taking out all the trim in the main level of the house (we'll do the upstairs eventually, just not this time around).  Here are some pictures of the first trim he pulled out:

Then last weekend, Matt repainted the dining room and kitchen. We finally got rid of the blue border and cut-out flowers in the kitchen and re-colored from yellow to an almond color. The dining room, which was a mauve-ish color, is now a silver grey. We like the new colors a lot :)

Before kitchen:

After kitchen:

Before dining:

After dining:

Now Matt is in the process of removing all the carpet and linoleum and putting down more plywood in preparation for the hardwood to be installed. We have the hardwood that will be put down stored in our garage, but it wont be done until Father's day weekend (Next weekend we are going to PA for our nephews birthday so it has to wait till the following weekend. Also, Matt's stepdad, sisters and mom will be up to help out that weekend).

 All the hardwood that will be put in our house in two weeks. 

 Carpet up and new plywood in the living room

Working on the kitchen now

Because of all this happening on the main level, we have moved our living room to the basement. It also means that I don't always have access to our camera when the kids do something cute, so most of the pictures this week were taken by my cell phone and posted on Facebook already.

Testing out a sippy cup

Attempting to sit up

 

She got little blisters on her toes from jumping in her jumper too much

 

Trying out the BECO carrier in the back position. 

She wasn't so sure about it at first, then 

passed out for about 45 minutes haha

 

 Ikey vacuuming an empty dining room

In a cute little outfit

Passed out on the bean bag chair 

Checking out the grass outside 

 

Ikey in the pool

Both kids in the pool (Rose is using a bath seat)

 

 Testing out her new high chair!

Took some random pics today of the kids playing:

Today during lunch, Rose was watching us eat then smacking her lips together as if SHE was trying to eat. It was really cute and we figured we would try out some bananas with her. She is around the same age that Isaac was when he got his first solid food, which was also bananas :)

 Trying to use the sippy

 Mmmmm... bananas! She's making a weird face because Isaac is throwing a fit...

 See? It's because he wanted the blue baby spoon

Another change around here is that we finally got rid of Isaac's paci's. He had three and as they got old and breaking, we would throw them out. Well, Saturday his last paci was finally broke so we had him throw it away (he threw away the other ones as well). He was fine throwing it away, but wasn't so happy about not having it to sleep. He screamed and cried for a good while Saturday night and cried a bit tonight (Sunday) but not nearly as bad as yesterday. Hopefully a few more days and he wont care that he doesn't have it anymore. The funny thing is, is that he hasn't taken a paci at daycare in over a year, but he was so instant on having one at home.

Well, that's about all there is for now! Kids are both in bed so it's time for me to relax a bit before heading to bed myself :)