The basement!

We have finished most of our basement. Only the downstairs bathroom still needs construction. We still have to hang some doors and put up the molding, but it has been so nice to enjoy the rest of it, we have been waiting so long. So here at last, I am posting a few pictures of the new carpet, walls, and paint. The first picture is a view of the toy room from the perspective of the closet under the stairs.

This next picture is the toy room from the other side.

We are going to put up a chalk board for the kids on the wall by the stairs. We have the chalkboard paint and the board, we just need to put the two together and hang it up. I think it will be lots of fun for them, as well as easy clean up for me. The next picture is of our family or TV room. We are still deciding what to do in this room for seating.

The next room is the computer/game room. I don't have pictures of Mary's room yet, she wants her curtains up for the finished look. Hopefully, I will get those sewn up this weekend and will post about it next week.

Although the different lighting makes the carpet look like it might be different colors in different rooms, it is only due to the different lights, I think. The carpet is throughout the entire basement as well as the stairs. It truly feels like a different basement than the one we initially had.

Having a nap

Emma is always falling asleep in the oddest places... here are a few more examples, though they are not a complete showing.

And one last silly picture of the whole bunch...

All I want for Christmas....

Finally! A few posts back, I mentioned Emma being very impatient to loose a tooth. She had one on the top that was almost loose... I never thought to check the teeth on the bottom. On the first of November, she lost her first tooth, and then yesterday her second. She is absolutely thrilled and asked me last night for the phone number of the tooth fairy.

Socks

This is a picture of my great-grandmother Agatha Hilda Fullmer. It hangs on a wall in my bedroom. Benjamin loves this picture. The first time he talked about it to me, it took me a minute to understand that he was talking about the picture, because he said "missing a sock." Now we have regular conversations about the horse that is missing a sock. He finds it very funny.