Easter and 6 months

So I will try to do some catching up now. I've just been so busy. This year was the first year that we had Easter at home. It was very relaxing for us. Jocelyn woke up and found her Easter basket which she loved. We went to church and came home and took these great pictures.




And here is Megan at 6 months with Jocelyn and by herself. She is getting so big now. She is rolling over from back to front, talking a ton and eating. She loves playing with Jocelyn. Megan is such a happy baby. I feel so blessed. She just lights up when she smiles. I love her rosy cheeks.

I AM SUCH A SLACKER!

Ok, I just realized that I haven't been on here in over a month. No wonder my family has been picking on me. What a slacker. A lot has been happening. Megan is now 6 months, we had our family pictures taken, our basement is getting closer to being finished. The reason I haven't been blogging is because I wanted to post pictures as well. I'll try to do that in the next couple of days. While the kids were napping, I was usually downstairs helping with flooring, painting, and working with our contractor. Usually that is my time to blog and such. Sorry guys.
Life is great for us and we are loving it. Megan is huge!! I'll put her stats up with her 6 month picture. Jocelyn is running and is so active. She's such a blast and is growing so tall. And the weather is great one day and rainy the next and then cold. How crazy!
But we are all alive and well and I'll post pictures. Right now our contractor is putting up our ceiling in our media room. It's partially painted and looks fantastic.

Megan and spitting

So Megan likes to make buzzing noises with her mouth and now tongue. She puts it out and spits. It's so funny. So here is a clip of her doing that. She is such a funny girl. We enjoy her so much. And she loves her big sister so much. Jocelyn is so good with her. That makes me happy. I just hope they stay that way.

More basement

So our basement is getting close to finished. Last week we laid the floors down. I was able to help, which I loved. I even got to use the saw and cut some pieces. Our contractor is doing the wainscoting next then the ceiling. So we will paint when he's done with the wainscoting. We are doing a light green on top and white on the bottom. It's going to look great! So here are the pictures. This first one is at the bottom of the stairs. As you can see, one side is finished and the other looks like, well, basement.



This one is of our media/theater room. That back wall is where our couch will go and the opposite wall will be where our nice screen will go. We are so excited!!




And here is where the game room/toy room is. It's the room under our living room. We will have a lot of Jocelyn's toys down here for her to play with. I'll probably make curtains for the windows, but I'm not sure. They're little and that's the only natural light we get. We'll see.

Jocelyn's Robe of Many Colors

So sometimes Jocelyn likes to take a shower. After I get out, she sees that I put on my robe sometimes. She said that she wanted one too. I said that I would make her one if she really wanted. So 2 weekends ago Jocelyn and I headed off to Joann's, my sewing mecca. She wanted light purple fleece, but I could only find dark purple fleece. So we wandered the store because I'm also going to make her an apron (She enjoys cooking and baking with me). We did get her purple material for that. Well anyway, near that fabric was the flannel and the really soft cozy fabric. I found the material below and thought to myself, way too cute. So I asked Jocelyn if she would like that fabric for her robe. Obviously she said yes, because otherwise you would be looking at a different material on the robe. I've never done a robe before, and once I figured out the pockets, it went by really fast. We both think it's absolutely adorable. And when she outgrows it she has a little sister that it can go to. So here is a picture of it by itself and one of her modeling it. I stayed up until midnight last night finishing it. I gave it to her this morning as a surprise. She was so excited and happy.

Megan is 5 months!

So here is our little 5 month old. Is she cute or what. She is such a sweet little girl. She's been rolling over from her back to her stomach, but not the other way yet. She laughs a ton, sleeps 12 hours a night and is so patient. We just love having her in our family. She lights up a room. And she loves to look at Jocelyn and laugh. Whenever Jocelyn walks down the stairs and Megan is at the bottom, she cracks up. It's so funny to see.




So here are Me and Megan and Dan and Megan. Who does she look like? Most people say me, but I've heard one person say Dan. Any input? It doesn't really matter because she's her own person, but it seems that people love to put their input on these types of things.

Basement

So I'm finally putting pictures up of our basement. Here is Jocelyn at the bottom of the stairs. We cut some of the wall away on the stairs to give it more openness. The silver is the vapor barrier that our builder put up. This is way before we discovered that they did a horrible job with the insulation and we had mold problems. All taken care of now.



This is at the very bottom of the stairs. The cubby on the left is where our freezer goes and the part on the right is where we will have our pantry. It's very large, though you can't really see how big. Go food storage.




This is the room under our living room. It will be our play room for Jocelyn and the ping pong table. We will have a lot of built in book cases and a fireplace to keep it warm. I am so excited about this. We are doing a green top and white Waynes coating on the bottom.



This is the room below our mudroom. It will become our food storage room. What a great place for it. We will have lots of shelves in here.


We also have an exercise room and our media room/family room in which movies will be watched on our new projector. We are so excited about this. I have learned to mud and tape, and put in ceiling speakers. Dan has helped putting new insulation in, doing the drywall. He has every other Friday off, so he helps our contractor on those days. We are both learning new skills.