Kaizen Klan: January 2010

Finally coming together

FINALLY, the workers finished the job and attached the remaining section and closed up all the seams. The kids and I recently spent a week down south working on the house. It's finally starting to take shape and feel like our own. Unfortunately, the week we came down was the week of the big storm. There is no electricity hooked up to the house yet so the kids and I froze inside. I had them in triple layers and beanies. They looked like they were ready for the snow. However, as cold as we were I really can't complain because my Dad and Don were outside in the pouring rain pouring more cement. They were determined to pour the curbing around the house this trip. They were both major troopers and actually completed the job. I told Don that he was officially a Suey Creek resident.

Mommy's little helper

Don and my dad pouring cement in the rain

Good work honey!

Pouring the curb

A very wet and dirty Daddy

The living room with the new paneling and paint

Mommy's little leech

The kitchen and living room

More of the kitchen and living room

Téa pretending to paint the walls

Caden's turn

Enjoying their lunch

The master bedroom before

And after

More of my little "helpers"

The laundry room/office

Down time

We were very busy during the months of December and January and spent a lot of time away from home. Here are a few of the pictures that were snapped during our down time. I can't wait until June when things settle down a little for us and we can have more of these moments together.

Daddy reading to his munchkins

Daddy and his little peanut

Mommy with my munchkins

Our new lamp

Shed

We came down the week after Christmas to do some work on the house. Unfortunately, they still weren't done putting it back together so we decided to start some outside work instead. On this trip we poured the foundation of our shed. We went through over 2 pallets of cement. For those of you that don't know, that's quite a bit. Each bag weighs 60 lbs and each pallet has 56 bags on it. That means that Don lifted over 6,720 lbs that day. No wonder he was a little sore.

Téa the big helper

Caden keeping a close eye on the progress

First we cleared and leveled the site

Once the cement has dried we can erect the walls of the shed

The frame for the shed

Don lifting cement

One section done

We have to pour it, tamp it, and then smooth it

Some of the damage

Don mixing the cement

Pouring it in the frame

Smoothing it out

Don cleaning up the edges

Half way there

Our little nugget has officially passed the halfway point. We had our 20 week ultrasound and everything looked absolutely perfect. The baby's heart rate was around 150 beats per minute. The baby was measuring in at 7 inches long and 10 oz at the time of the ultrasound. We got to see the heart with all 4 chambers, the spine and of course the adorable little profile. We did not want to find out the gender so you're going to have to wait another 20 weeks to find that out. The baby has been moving quite a bit. I'm hoping soon the baby will kick or hit hard enough that the kids can feel it. They both understand a little bit. If we ask them where the baby is Caden says in Mommy's belly and Téa runs over to lift my shirt up but I'm not sure how much of it they really get. I'm hoping that when they can feel it move and as they see Mommy's belly grow bigger and bigger, their understanding will be a little better. I've been feeling great! If it weren't for my growing waistline and feeling the baby move every once in awhile I probably wouldn't even remember that I'm pregnant. Since we've passed the hump we officially get to start counting down the weeks until baby comes.

8 weeks pregnant