Fall Cleaning

Big changes are afoot. We decided Alex would be better off with a nanny instead of daycare. So this coming Monday will be his last day at daycare, and hopefully he won't be getting as sick, as often as he was. We interviewed and signed on a nanny this Saturday who we feel really good about. She is a bright, good-natured English major (kudos!) with infant CPR certification. We were very impressed and her personality seems very compatible with ours.

Meanwhile for the next two weeks, Grandma Carla will be with us! She is wonderful and loves hanging out with Alex.

Last week, Dana saw a cockroach downstairs, and this has triggered a major, major cleanup of the first floor. This nicely coincides with our move to the new bedroom upstairs!! I hooked up the lights and outlets last week. Everything works as it should.

So as we moved things upstairs to the new room, after carefully dusting, we commenced a huge mop, sweep and dusting operation downstairs. We moved the couch from the dining room into the old bedroom, and also moved the TV, stereo and a few other odds and ends there. Now we have a brand new "Playroom" for us and Alex.

The new playroom

Once things were moved into the new Playroom, space was cleared in the living room for yet more cleaning. So I moved the couch, the bookshelves, and everything else in there. I also rearranged the furniture, which I like to do every 6 months or so anyway. It's been tough the last few years not getting to scratch that itch regularly.

Here are a few more pics from the new bedroom upstairs:

This is the new, old closet door (transplanted from the old closet). The wires above are for the new smoke alarm

In the process of deploying all the books in the new built-in bookshelf

One of the new windows. The built-in shelf in the background conceals some framing for the faux eaves that we could not chop off.

The new light fixture, also showing the new doorway to the hall, and the new attic stairs in the hallway

We had one last gift certificate for Babies'R'Us to spend, so we made the trek down to Broomfield to do some shopping for Alex. We picked up a really neat walker. Alex fell in love with it as soon as he tried it out. Finally, those little legs can do what they're MEANT to do!

Alex, tooling around in his walker

Now, at the end of a hard day of cleaning and walking around, it's hard to pass up an ice cold beer...

Gimme Gimme Gimme!

Ahhhh that hits the spot, mate!

Now that's living!

Uh oh, I feel kinda funny... Hey, what's IN this stuff anyway?