Astronauts

So I told you all about the movie "Fly Me to the Moon", well it is truly our favorite movie right now! So much so, Zachery pretends to be an astronaut all the time! Below is a picture of his helmet (which is actually the container that holds all his musical instruments and is the base for the drum, he figures all this out on his own by the way...). The other week we were over at some friends house and the husband is actually a race car driver. He brought out one of his old racing helmets and Zach put it on and flip up the visor. I think he did that at least 50 times, it was very entertaining!! When they came over last night for dinner and I told Zach who was coming over he asked if he would be bringing the helmet. He truly has a wonderful memory and imagination!

Charlie and Zach play rockets everyday. And we just got him two space books, which he loves and we love to because they are educational and have real pictures in them! We are excited to see the DVD that is with it ... we will keep you posted!

The other night we had some other friends over who just had a baby 6 weeks ago. Zachery was able to hold the baby, he was so proud of himself it was so very sweet!!

Bathroom

So as most of you might know we had to do re-do our bathroom, if you have't heard I will tell the little story. The other week on a Monday afternoon Zachery and I were playing football in the backyard (yes, it was beautiful outside probably around 60 degrees). Charlie came out and said, I am going to try and chip away at the grout in the bathroom and see if I can replace it (in order to improve our bathroom). We had one wall, which was under the window that is in the shower area that was bowing out due to water seeping in through cracks in the tile and grout. About 20 minutes later Charlie comes out with his thumb wrapped saying "Please don't be mad at me". I think my first concern was, do we need to go to the emergency room? He said no it is just a little "flesh wound" ... as we ventured to the bathroom, the wall that I just described had several tiles missing. Charlie said that the plaster behind the tile was so wet that he can't get anything to stick back on it. Needless to say we had an emergency on our hands, it is our only shower! Luckily we had thought about redoing the bathroom back in April of 2009, so we had the name of the tile man that we were going to use. Charlie called him up and the tile man said that he was free the rest of the week and would come out the very next day. Well the bathroom was demolished on Tuesday. The new tile was installed on Thursday. And the grout and new flooring were installed on Friday. Charlie sealed everything on Sunday. We textured on Friday night, re-painted on Saturday and Sunday. And our plumbers were back out on Tuesday to reconnect our water so we could take a shower!! When they were taking the old vanity out they discovered a small leak in one of the water lines. We are so grateful that the leak was found, that wall is the same wall where the baby's crib is ...

A special thanks has to go out to our friends who allowed us to take a shower at their house and thank you to the ones that offered!!

The vanity and mirror took the longest to find. We still have the doors to the cabinet to special order and the bathtub to be resurfaced, but we will not be able to do those two things until March or April. I just have to say after looking at the bathroom now, what was I thinking painting the old bathroom yellow! The green tile that you see on the former vanity circled the bathroom...if you can imagine.