Bathroom Renovation Update

Stacy and James spent two weeks living in a hotel and are back home now. The bathroom renovation isn’t done yet, but with the demolition and framing phases completed, there shouldn’t be much dust kicked up, so we felt it was safe for them to move back. They have been sleeping in the living room because the hallway to the bedrooms is tarped off and getting James to his room is a bit difficult. They had been sleeping on the floor, but on Thursday the 2nd James woke up with what we think was a bug bite on his hand.

The next morning it looked worse, so she called the pediatrician. He didn’t want to diagnose it over the phone, so Stacy brought him in to see him. The doc didn’t think it was too serious, but just in case there was an underlying infection, he prescribed an antibiotic.

After James woke up with the bite on his hand that Thursday morning, Stacy decided to try having James sleep on the couch that night. The next morning, she found him like this:

We were slightly concerned that he may wiggle himself off the couch one night and wind up on the floor, but we weren’t sure what to do to prevent it from happening. If we were to line the side of the couch with pillows to cushion his fall if he did fall off the couch, is there a possibility of him suffocating when he lands on the pillow? Do we line the side of the couch with boxes or something so he can’t fall off and move them out of the way every time he needs suctioning in the middle of the night? Or do we do nothing and hope nothing happens? We chose to do nothing, and he’s been fine for the past two weeks.

I know I said in my last post that I was going to wait to post pictures of the renovation until it was completed, but we’re starting to get excited now that we can envision what it’s going to look like when it’s done. Here is a sneak peak of James new roll in shower:

They still have quite a bit to do, but they’re getting there. Hopefully just a couple more weeks.

Minor Kitchen Remodel

For those of you that don’t know, Stacy and I drove Route 66 all the way from Chicago to Santa Monica for our honeymoon in 2005. We actually got married in 2004, but since Stacy was teaching, we postponed our honeymoon until the summer of 2005. Anyway, it was an amazing trip full of old diners, ice cream shops, and gas stations. When we bought our house, we wanted our kitchen to have a sort of retro theme. As luck would have it, my mom is a real estate agent and was selling a house whose owners no longer wanted their retro kitchen table set so we took it.

A couple of weeks ago a local ice cream and coffee house that Stacy and I go to frequently announced that they were changing their theme from the retro look to a more modern style and was selling their old furniture. The prices were reasonable, so we jumped at the chance to have a commercial-grade retro table with booth seats. It looks amazing!

Fourth of July

On July 1st James had a 4th of July parade at summer school.

On Saturday, July 4th we went to a 4th of July parade. James doesn’t handle heat well, so we tried to keep him shaded as much as possible and also clipped a battery powered fan onto his stroller. Not sure how much it helped, though.

He was doing fine until a firetruck turned on its siren. He didn’t like that at all.

We may need to see about getting some ear plugs or headphones for him for situations where we know there will be loud noises.