Monday, July 29, 2013

Levav's Room

One month and a few days into our new house adventure and most of the rooms are kind of done. Done enough that there's nothing really terribly offensive (not you kitchen and bathrooms, you are terribly offensive), but still there are things everywhere I look that I want to change big time (just a start, our room needs a headboard,  the entryway needs an upgrade from an accident-waiting-to happen glass shelf to a proper console, the guest room needs built ins demoed and needs nightstands, the dining room needs a side table, the kitchen needs a table, the living room needs paint - I can go on, really). Except the boys rooms. Those are mostly mostly done. And, somehow, of all the rooms in the house, the room that is the most finished is occupied by the person that notices that least. 

Other then evenually updating the blinds and getting a new ceiling fixture, Lev's room is all set, from the big things, new carpet and wall color, to the little, painted picture frames and little set ups on the built in window credenza.







If only this room wasn't the host of daily "please don't make me go to sleep mommy" nighttime melt downs. Sad face so you can get a taste of what it means to put this poor sad sack to bed.  In short: it's so sad!


Thursday, July 25, 2013

Goodbye Golden Girls!


In the house, we each had our "most hated" wallpaper. Mine was the flowery vines in Eitan's room that made me feel like I was going to be attacked by it- something out of Little Shop of Horrors.




Ami's was definitely the "Golden Girls" textured pink and seafoam beauty that was all over our big living room wall and entry way.





The bedrooms de-wallpapered first because new carpeting was coming in there and we didn't want to have little shreds of it all over our fresh carpet, so the Golden Girls beauty got a few extra weeks before being evicted. 

Ah...the look of fresh, clean, ready to paint walls! And three trash bags FULL of wallpaper. 





Now we're just paralyzed with paint color choices. So not like us, right? But this is a big room that doesn't get very bright despite the huge windows, and we teeter between wanting to go bold and being scared...at least nothing as scary as the GG wallpaper haunts us anymore!



Band Practice

We had a great day a couple Sundays ago with a visit from the Levins and a stop by from the Vanderwaldes. Loved watching our kiddos play together with all sorts of musical instruments, especially Molly's repeating to us "quiet on the deck" so they could perform.

Poor little Levavi did not get an instrument, but here's the former DC gang band:

Molly Levin on Blow Piano
Will Levin on Ukelele
Caleb Vanderwalde on Piano/Xylephone combo (genius!)
Eitan Rozmaryn  on Bongo Drum




You'll thank me later for NOT posting the melodies these children produced...

Monday, July 22, 2013

Brothers

Taking a break from house related updates to share photos of these two silly guys. 

Recently, after so many "maybe he's cranky because he's teething" false starts, the baby guy has a little tooth dagger coming in!! Hooray for teeth! Boo for teething!



Moments after Eitan comes up to poor unassuming baby and rips the toy out of his hand.


Hooray for hair pulling! It's about time this boy learned how to fight back from Eitan the menace!



And so it begins. Brother on Brother violence both ways. Look at those mischievous little faces!

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Stereotype Much?

Looking through pictures that I took the last week or so I noticed two big stereotypical mom/dad moments, even better if I put them together in one post...


Eitan using his tools with Daddy and Uncle Elan- updating the 29 (!!!) outlets in our house from two to three prong- so they have grounding and are safe. Also so we can plug in computers and other such things. Look at that little tough guy with his matching tool box!






Aaand, baking challah with Mommy! For our first Shabbat in our new house, I broke out the bread machine, and for the first time since October 2011, when he was just a year old, and Levs wasn't even a thought,  we made challah. Eitan was my best helper dumping ingredients in and then dutifully watching the machine spin the dough. Levs was a helper by not screaming and chomping away at pretzels. Unfortunately for them, when the time came to braid the dough and bake it, they were were napping, that's the real fun part. Next time..





Yes, that is a Passover Vacations apron. See you in 2011 at the Fairmont Mayakoba!

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

A DIY Baby

I mean, we did make him ourselves, but it's increasingly obvious that this little fella lives in a house that is under construction:

Exhibit A: He got to the sliding doors in the living room before all the trim paint fully dried. Whoops. That white paint made the CUTEST mustache though! 




Exhibit B: Power tool boxes= baby's best friend



More on the steamer in a couple of days, but as a sneak preview, the beautiful wallpaper behind the little fella, thanks to a 9pm "I need to rip down this right now" itch and that steamer now amount to a clean ready-to-paint living room!

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Cleaning up, up on the roof

Here we go. Home improvement up on the roof. The roof of the house had little leafy things all over it, and our gutters were so clogged in one section that plants were growing out of it. Awesome.

Up on the roof went Ami to sweep and clean out: