First Bath - Loving It

The tub was done and ready for use on Monday. The girls got to be the first users and it was so funny. I think they were so used to being squished in the little red tub they still kind of sat on top of each other! I'm sure they'll spread out as they get used to all the space.

That night after the girls were asleep I took a bath and then Nathan did right after me. We are so loving having a tub again.

They did the last touch up grout work this morning, so we're going to give the shower a few more days before using it. Why wait all this time and then be impatient now, right? Can't wait to try it out.

It's all coming together

We are so close!

The vanity is done, Nathan will be setting the last sink today and then I can unpack our bathroom box that's been in our closet since we moved in! Tad excited at that prospect. We ended up changing the light fixture as the other one just didn't work with our new faucets. We also changed out the towel ring to the brushed nickle. Love it.

The only thing left is installing the fixtures for the tub and shower, been on back order. Once those are in they can grout the front of the tub and we're all set! Don't you love the new window and all the space for kneel in front of the tub to wash babies??? We picked a roman fixture, which means in addition to the faucet/hot/cold we'll also have a hand held sprayer, how great is that going to be!

The shower floor and step turned out awesome, love love love it. Katherine loves going in there and yelling to listed to the echo off the tile. Silly girl.

We got sod for the backyard! Below is the picture of our back patio/yard I took when we first moved into the house.

This picture was taken Monday - Nahtan finishing up the prep work for the sod that would be arriving some time between 6pm Monday and 7am Tuesday. He had to till up the entire yard to get all the old dead grass out and lower the grade as it was right up to the flashing on the house = possible termite issue, re-grade the slope away from the house, sift all the dirt to remove the weeds and dead grass, and re-use the dirt for all the above.

The sod arrived at 11:30pm Monday night. I'd asked them to call us on the way so we could have them drop the pallets in the back rather than making Nahtan wheel barrow it all from the front. Good thing we did as they guy couldn't find the house and would have left it out on 7th street! Nathan went and found him when he heard the air breaks of the semi and figured he was lost after he'd called 10 minutes before. We both got up and laid sod from midnight to 3am.

And ta-da, grass! Katherine thought it was so cool to wake up with grass in the yard. I said, isn't it so pretty...don't touch it! Funny. The kids and dogs have to stay off it for about a week.

Nathan got the 5 lantana's we'd bought to fill in where the existing ones didn't come back planted on Tueday while Katherine was at pre-school and I was on a play date with Jane. (See Nathan's horse-shoe pit?)

We are so excited about having grass, it makes such a huge difference. It should be fine for the girls to walk on Sunday for the big easter egg hunt.

More Tile!

Bathroom Teaser

The vanity has a new light and mirrors. The bathtub has it's casing and pony wall that the obscure glass for the shower will sit on.

The tile guys were out yesterday and did the shower walls. Today they are finished the shower, doing the tub surrounds and facing and I think pouring the step for the shower.

Tomorrow they should be grouting everything. Soon it'll be all done!

Belly Shots at 23 weeks with all three of my girls

Katherine Jane Alice