How fun are leaves? This weekend we decided to stop being the only house on the block with leaves all over and get raking. Piles and chaos ensued. What else is new?
Photos of boys and leaves...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Levav's First Birthday
Our sweet little guy turned one last weekend. To celebrate we had a little party with the family,because he was born across the world this was the first time we were able to celebrate him with a lot of our family.
We opened presents and played with them right away, of course, with toddler sized attention spans.
Better pictures to be posted when we get them from Ami's dad/our family photographer. And no, we never want to cut his hair it's so cute.
Monday, November 11, 2013
Upgrades!
Even though I haven't posted a house-y post in a while, it doesn't mean we haven't been kept busy slowly upgrading things around the house.
Most recently, now that the living room/dining room is done (for now) we spent some time in our room. The biggest offender was the doors between our room and our master bathroom. And by door, well, I mean bi-fold slatted doors. And they were so bad I couldn't even take a proper "before" picture.
Imagine the squeakiest doors that were made of long slats of holes really, no privacy, really having those doors was pretty much the same as having no doors, except both kids loved playing with them with game ending fingers getting pinched. Fun for all.
Well, thankfully, those days are over. Ami pulled them out and began rebuilding the all. You see, all the way on the right hand side of the door post below, there a few inches gap? That's the difference in size between bi-fold doors and a normal door. He framed it out and then added drywall to put it to size. It's cool stuff.
And here, in all it's glorious closed-ness, a bathroom door and a wall that you never would have known wasn't there all along. This project was one of those that seemed to take forever. It was a lot of steps, and taken an hour or so a day really, but the result is amazing and worth all the weeks of cleaning up, buying materials, etc. Right? A bathroom door!
Annnd project number 2! Project Headboard. In DC our bed backed up to our bedroom window so we didn't want a headboard to block out light, but as soon as we knew we were moving into this house, I knew I wanted to build an upholstered headboard. And by build, I mean for Ami to build.
We picked out the fabric in April, I fell in love with it, and I've been holding onto it, asking Ami maybe every other day when we're going to get to use it. He said it was a "low priority item" because it doesn't really function, unlike the insulating, etc, but finally we got to it.
The frame is plywood held up by three legs with foam and quilt batting so it's nice and soft to rest on while sitting up. I love it. Love love love it.
Most recently, now that the living room/dining room is done (for now) we spent some time in our room. The biggest offender was the doors between our room and our master bathroom. And by door, well, I mean bi-fold slatted doors. And they were so bad I couldn't even take a proper "before" picture.
Imagine the squeakiest doors that were made of long slats of holes really, no privacy, really having those doors was pretty much the same as having no doors, except both kids loved playing with them with game ending fingers getting pinched. Fun for all.
Well, thankfully, those days are over. Ami pulled them out and began rebuilding the all. You see, all the way on the right hand side of the door post below, there a few inches gap? That's the difference in size between bi-fold doors and a normal door. He framed it out and then added drywall to put it to size. It's cool stuff.
And here, in all it's glorious closed-ness, a bathroom door and a wall that you never would have known wasn't there all along. This project was one of those that seemed to take forever. It was a lot of steps, and taken an hour or so a day really, but the result is amazing and worth all the weeks of cleaning up, buying materials, etc. Right? A bathroom door!
Annnd project number 2! Project Headboard. In DC our bed backed up to our bedroom window so we didn't want a headboard to block out light, but as soon as we knew we were moving into this house, I knew I wanted to build an upholstered headboard. And by build, I mean for Ami to build.
We picked out the fabric in April, I fell in love with it, and I've been holding onto it, asking Ami maybe every other day when we're going to get to use it. He said it was a "low priority item" because it doesn't really function, unlike the insulating, etc, but finally we got to it.
The frame is plywood held up by three legs with foam and quilt batting so it's nice and soft to rest on while sitting up. I love it. Love love love it.
And a close up.
So that's what we've been up to after the kids go to bed at night now that we finished watching every episode of Breaking Bad. Lots of little upgrades making the house more home-y.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Pearlstone Farm
A couple Sundays ago Eitan's preschool had a family fun day at the Pearlstone center, a farm/hotel/educational center about 20 minutes from our house. The kids were tasked with planting garlic which I now know is done by sticking cloves of garlic in the ground. That's nuts, right?
We'll see come Spring what actually crops up, I think these were not the most diligent group of 3 and 4 year old farmers, but hopefully there will be some garlic...
Monday, November 4, 2013
A Bear in the Yard
What more is there to say? There's nothing better then a baby dressed up in a striped bear outfit and beautiful colors of fall leaves. Sweet little Lev Levav Chanan turns one next Shabbat!
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