Every month Beck and Baylor's classes send out electronic newsletters describing the upcoming activities for the month. I just got Baylor's newsletter for April:
To celebrate our theme for the month of April, the Hugger’s class will be learning about how our bodies grow and develop. The overall theme for this month is, “All About Me.” The weeks and their topics are as follow:
• Week of the 5th: My Body
• Week of the 12th: My Fiends
• Week of the 19th: I’m Growing
• Week of the 26th: My Family
I don't know why, but the thought of 2 years olds sitting around discussing their "fiends" made me laugh out loud.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Carrom anyone?
I was doing a little spring cleaning in our garage/basement today and look what I found...
And the flip side:
Yup- you guessed it, it's a Carrom board. Judging from the looks of it, I would be willing to guess that it was purchased by the original owners of the house, several years before I was born. Rob and I Googled how to play it, but were left with more questions than answers. If anyone is a Carrom expert and knows where I can buy some Carrom-men that are "ICF-sanctioned pieces with a diameter of no more than 3.18 cm and no less than 3.02 cm, and must be between 7 mm and 9 mm thick, with an edge that is round and plain, and a weight of 5–5.5 g." please let me know. If feel like if our old college friends were around we would find some way to make a Carrom drinking game that would probably make about as much sense as the actual games rules.
And the flip side:
Yup- you guessed it, it's a Carrom board. Judging from the looks of it, I would be willing to guess that it was purchased by the original owners of the house, several years before I was born. Rob and I Googled how to play it, but were left with more questions than answers. If anyone is a Carrom expert and knows where I can buy some Carrom-men that are "ICF-sanctioned pieces with a diameter of no more than 3.18 cm and no less than 3.02 cm, and must be between 7 mm and 9 mm thick, with an edge that is round and plain, and a weight of 5–5.5 g." please let me know. If feel like if our old college friends were around we would find some way to make a Carrom drinking game that would probably make about as much sense as the actual games rules.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Kitchen Pictures
So, I finally got around to doing the kitchen and I would say it is 90% finished. I am extremely proud to say that I laid the flooring completely by myself. I also cut and installed the baseboards and quarter round and painted. It was a lot of work, spread out over a week's worth of nights. I ended up with a lot of little cuts and bruises and a sore back, but it was completely worth it.
We basically went with the least expensive flooring, so it didn't turn out to be exactly what I would have otherwise chosen, but I've come to view this house as my practice house where I am here to learn all of the lessons of home improvement and maintenance. We went ahead and had professionals fix the drywall and tear the wood paneling off of the other walls, but I feel like maybe I could have done that myself too.
They tore off the old painted-over wood paneling that covered the bottom the kitchen walls, and replaced the drywall under the window, which had gotten wet and rotted.
I think this is a vast improvement on what we had when we first moved in.
We basically went with the least expensive flooring, so it didn't turn out to be exactly what I would have otherwise chosen, but I've come to view this house as my practice house where I am here to learn all of the lessons of home improvement and maintenance. We went ahead and had professionals fix the drywall and tear the wood paneling off of the other walls, but I feel like maybe I could have done that myself too.
They tore off the old painted-over wood paneling that covered the bottom the kitchen walls, and replaced the drywall under the window, which had gotten wet and rotted.
I think this is a vast improvement on what we had when we first moved in.
Before
After
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