Kaden's "Needs"

Top 5 " Kaden needs to want..." (as Kaden puts it.)

1. to watch Dora
2. a chocolate chip, please
3. lunch
4. to go to church
5. to go to park

When asked "you NEED to?" He just gets closer to your face and repeats: "NEEDS TO WANT TO WATCH DORA!" or whatever it is he thinks he wants and needs.

Guest Bathroom "Improvements"

This week has been quite eventful. For the past month or so we've been working on tearing off wallpaper, patching walls, texturing, and painting. In the process, we've had to move our fridge at least 9 zillion times. (At least.) Turns out, the LAST time we moved our fridge back into place we forgot to check to make sure it was All Systems Go.

Apparently, it was not.

Guest bathroom before:


Thankfully, Luke was in the guest bathroom about 4 days later and noticed a dripping sound. Earlier in the week I had noticed that it smelled wet, but kept trying to find out why to no avail. He was able to trace the dripping sound up to our refrigerator-specifically-the pipe that connects to our ice maker.

Fantastic.

In the process of trying to find out the extend of the damage the sheetrock on the bathroom side of the wall collapsed. Had we touched the other side (our downstairs family room side) it also would have collapsed.

Right now we have fans blowing, and the toilet out...hoping to have it "workable" (if you don't mind a whole in the sheetrock behind you) for our company who is coming on Thursday.

These mishaps never occur at "convenient" times, do they? We are just thanking God that the damage wasn't worse, there is no mold, and we found it in time to fix it ourselves. Also, about 18 months ago I had torn off all the wallpaper in hopes of painting, and that project got put on hold indefinitely. I am so thankful I hadn't painted/redecorated only to find this mess!

Also. We have decided that we may never have gotten back to the project that is the guest bath (for various reasons, mainly that it was done as horribly as the dining room, and who wants to face that? AND out of sight, out of mind, right?) This will encourage us to tackle that project. Unfortunately, our dining room is on hold as well. I'd truly love to finish that before we switch our attention!

So, this post has a label called "home improvement"...in realization that it gets worse before it gets better....

Guest Bathroom after:

A Boy and His Boppa

A couple weeks ago Kaden and I were in the kitchen and I hear, "OH NOOO!!!" and I turned, expecting to find an overturned garbage can, broken window, or huge mess. Instead, I found my boy pointing to an empty part of the fridge, where a picture had been: "wheerrreee's Boppa?" I was impressed. Not even I could have told you the missing picture was THAT picture. So, he started marching around the house "Boppa! Where are you?" and eventually found himself back where he started, at the fridge, opening it. I told him. "Kaden, close the fridge. I don't think Boppa is in the fridge!" At that moment, the missing picture of Boppa fell out of the fridge. Kaden looked at me with accusing eyes (I HAD just lied to him, right?) and said "Boppa!!! THERE you are!" and as he tried to put it up on the fridge, commanded "Boppa. Stay on fridge."

And his world was once again all okay.

I was remembering this last night and wanted to get in on the blog, because, knowing me, it is the only chance I have of remembering again!

You Can't Trust Monday (or Tuesday apparently)

This week I feel like I've had two Mondays. And it's only Tuesday. I'm a little nervous to see what tomorrow brings.

Thinking back, I couldn't tell you specifically what was so bad. It was just a mix of a little bit of everything, and a bad mood.

Tomorrow WILL be a good day.

High on Paint?

I ♥ my orange dining room!

and it doesn't even have trim on yet!!!! (here are some views of the work in progress. YOu have to wait to the end to see the paint!)

This is an old pic from right after we moved in. Looks like an innocent wall, doesn't it???? No, it was textured paint over very awfully done wallpaper. It was an eyesore up close. The worse areas were behind the fridge (pic will show later) beside the patio door, and between the light switches (there was just nothing between them. Kind of weird looking...) Not the greatest pic...
The end of this wall (the part that is discouragingly HORRIBLE...)is behind the fridge. Eventually that wall, and the wall behind my counters and stove will be covered by beadboard and white paint. BUT, it does give you a taste of what we were facing for the rest of the walls! (its truly amazing what wallpaper can hide!!!)Also, you will notice, in this picture the area between light switches now has sheetrock/tape/mud/texture/primer!
This picture just shows some more areas of new sheetrock. I wish I'd taken more pictures, but that's how it goes with 2 little kids and a full camera card.
We have put a lot more work into this dining room than we'd hoped. But, honestly, probably not more than was expected. My previous blog with the label "home improvement" tells of the....difficulties we experienced. Unfortunately, I didn't get good pictures of HOW bad it was, and I don't want to go into it here. I'll just say, the pictures you see where we had to patch and add whole new sheetrock were un-salvage-able. The other areas, Luke (with some help from his brother Justin) were able to patch, and retexture.

This is us choosing colors. I chose the one on the right!
Then Luke painted: 3 coats of orange, 2 coats of Polar Bear white.
It looks like NEW!
...well...new without trim...I guess. (there will be a chair rail where the paint meets (obviously) and crown moulding, and floor trim...and hopefully laminate wood flooring!!!!
AND NOW (drumroll, please!) here are the long awaited, still not finished pictures of the dining room!





UM. Can I just LIVE in my dining room now?

Happenings in the Antonich Household

This week we are watching my nephews Collin and Warren. It has been fun and Kaden has thoroughly enjoyed the company! Even Kate has loved the extra action! Their parents, Justin and Rose, stayed through the weekend with us. Justin and Luke were able to finish mudding the new sheetrock and all the places that needed patches, retextured, primed, and now are dining room has 2 big orange wall tester blobs on it.

AM I REALLY GOING TO DO ORANGE?!

Justin and Rose left Monday, during the kids' naptime, to head over to Rapid City to attend an AMF Missionary Conference. I had cooking club that night, so I spent the afternoon cleaning up from all the mudding/texturing/extra dishes from company mess. The kids played and played and it was actually easier than if I'd just had Kaden and Kate!

Today I have another cooking club, but I'm hoping to get the kitchen/dining room clean before it gets warm out. Then when it's nice I hope to take the kids out to play in the pool!

Justin and Rose will be back tomorrow afternoon, and the time with the kids will be all to short :(
Back to the walls...I will post pictures soon of the progress and colors!

Roseola

Well, my baby girl seems to have Roseola. Have you heard of it? It seems that it's easier to diagnose after the sickness has pretty much run it's course. I didn't know what Roseola was until she started getting little red rash looking dots alllll over her body. I didn't know if it was an allergic reaction, heat, or what! I quickly took some pictures and sent them to my might-as-well-have-been-a-doctor mom. I then called to implore her to please check her email as soon as she could. She, however, was not even in town and could not. I said "But! Katelyn has a rash!" (Like that can change whether mom has access to her email!) and mom replied "Is it on the trunk of her body, not hot, and not very raised?" Me, confused: "Um, yah pretty much." Mom: "It's Roseola." JUST.LIKE.THAT. No, "It's ok honey, your baby's gonna be fine it's just...." Nope. Just this is what it is. So, I asked "Is that...like...a good thing? A not good thing? A slightly OK thing? Or should I be hanging up and calling an ambulance?" (Fairly certain it wasn't that last option.) It turns out it's not really good, but definitely not bad...since the rash part means its over.

SO. For those of you unexperienced like me. Roseola starts with a (usually) high fever (102-105*) that lasts 3-5 days. It can be accompanied by runny nose, cough, and diahrea. Needless to say, this is why it is hard to diagnose! When the fever breaks the rash appears and can last from 1-3ish days. We all hope for the 1 day. That's when you know what it was. It is highly contagious as well, until 24 hours after the rash appears.

Thankfully, I cancelled all playdates this week, did not attend church, and did not attend MOPS on Thursday. I am glad I made that decision. So as of tomorrow morning we should be contagious free and on the upside! WHEW. I'm getting sick of having sickies.