Bathroom Part Two

Progress! There has been a lot of progress made on the bathroom. Below are pic's of the purple board drywall and floor framing for the new tub (used to be part of the sunken walk in shower) The vanity with the mirror taken down and white tile counter top pulled off.

Here is the bathroom after the drywall guys came in to tape and texture and a peak at the new window.

While they were there we had them patch the vanity as well as the laundry room where we'd removed a sink. We also had them patch behind the oven where there were holes from the cook top we removed to install an oven and the old backsplash.

Last night Nathan was painting the bathroom with a quick coat of paint so when they were installing the tub today we wouldn't have to paint around it.

This is our new cast iron tub sittingin our garage. It's going in today!

Welcome, Bath Tub

Our new house does not have a bath tub. What? I know. So, we're re-doing our master bath and putting one in as with three kids under 4 it's a must, not a want.

Nathan did all the demo himself to save us some money and boy did he do a great job. That poor guy worked two 9+ hour days ripping down drywall, pulling up tile and all the thin set firmly and stubbornly attached to the concrete, knocking out a window, jackhammering out foundation, chiseling down concrete side walls, digging, trenching and so forth. Whew, he's exhausted!

As you can imagine our bedroom is a disaster although we tried to contain the amazing amounts of dust and debris. Who could have imagined the extent to materials that would come out of that bathroom?!
We've been sleeping in our great room for three nights now and probably have at least another 4-5 before the messy stuff is over and we can clean/scour/scrub within an inch of its life our room and move back in there. All the clothes in the closet have a fine layer of dust despite the door jam being completely taped off - sigh.

Nathan and our contractor, Mike, had to cut out part of our foundation as part of the demo. We're doing a tub as well as a sunken walk in shower, so we had to cut a piece out to make the shower big enough. No easy task.

The easiest part of the demo was taking out the old insulation. Yea, an easy task!

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Today the plumber was there putting in the new drains, adding the ceiling shower head, moving the handles for the shower and adding in the lines for the bathtub.

Tomorrow they should being framing in the bathtub and filling in the trenching/pouring the concrete to create the new step down into the shower.

I'll do another post as progress is made. If you see or talk to Nathan give him a pat on the back. I've never met a man who works harder than he does.

Big Girl Bed

We moved Jane out of her crib yesterday and into Katherine's bed as it has the half railing. (I don't know why Jane's face is such a mess, she's got chapped cheeks and must have taken a face plant yesterday as her chin's all scratched up - no bar fights though, I promise).

She did great last night, stayed in bed all night until I heard her this morning around 6am. When I went in to get her she was sitting in her new big girl bed waiting for me. I think she did so great last night as she only took one nap yesterday and was exhausted. Nathan tried to put her down for a few more as she was a wreck, but it wasn't happening.

This is what her room looks like now with the new bed. She loves being able to get in and out, but I think she's most excited to be able to get her blankie and animals without reaching through every slat until she finds one that she can reach far enough through to get whatever she's after.

We took the front of the crib off and moved it into Katherine's room.

We'll leave it like this for awhile, Katherine likes not having the half railing in the way anymore.

In a couple more months we'll move Jane into Katherine's room so they can get that all figured out well before Alice gets here. Yep, we're going to name the new baby Alice!

We'll get Katherine a twin bed when it's time for the baby to move out of our room and into the nursery (Jane's current room) but that'll be a good 7-8 months from now so no need to buy a bed and store the crib for that long.

Nathan took this pic of us girls this morning, I just know Alice was looking at the camera and smiling too!

Preschool!

Katherine started twice a week preschool in March. She was so excited and so cute it almost killed me.



The day before we went to Target and let her pick out a lunchbox for snack time, which she kept calling her purse box or lunch purse. So funny. She carried it around all day, hanging it on the corner of her chair at dinner and on her bed that night.



The first day she was so excited. Nathan took Mom's mandatory first day pictures, isn't she cute!





The whole family went to drop her off. Nathan was planning on staying the first day as she's had a REALLY hard time when we've tried to leave her in Sunday school, and Jane and I went to the library reading group. Nathan only ended up stayed in her class for about 15 minutes and then the lobby for another 10-15. She did awesome. Jane and I went and picked up Nathan and ran errands until it was time to pick her up.





We snuck into her class to watch her and she was doing so great. We're so pround of her and she loves it. It's also great for Jane as she gets one on one time with us twice a week and LOVES all the extra attention.