Finishing Touches

On Friday, they put all of our hardware and our crown molding on all of our cabinets and they also put shoe molding up and started on our porch posts.  This week, the excavator needs to come in order for us to pass final inspection (since we have some drop offs where more dirt needs to be brought in).  The painter will need to come to do touch ups, we neeed mirrors and closet organizers, and they need to add some things in our peaks. Other than that, we're about done!  Right now, they said to plan on getting our keys to move in on Thursday morning. 

 

The back of the bar will be painted white.  It didn't get painted originally because we changed our minds and decided to put beadboard up.

 Greta loves to "cheese" for pictures:-)...

Father's Day

We had a great day celebrating Joe today.  I think he had a good day too:-).  We went to Joe's parents' for lunch (my family is gone right now), did some packing and then relaxed at home tonight. 

 

We got Joe a "Mr. Incredible" shirt for Father's Day.  He is our Mr. Incredible.  Plus it'll work great to wear in Disney:-).

 The Geurink men/boys...

 Layla and Gibs both made Grandpa a card for Father's Day.  Gibs cut out (with help from me) pictures from a magazine of things that Grandpa likes.  Some of the things included were desserts, bacon, eggs, a steering wheel (for driving), pizza, deer, McDonald's, and dogs.  He knows his Grandpa:).

Siding (among other things)!

The siding is finally on!!  The siders started last Thursday and finished on Tuesday.  Appliances arrived on Tuesday.  Plumbing fixtures went in yesterday and hardware/doorknobs/crownmolding went on today.  The garage door also got installed today.  I'll post updated interior pics later.  The exterior still needs some final touches, but it's getting close!  We should be in within a week!

Pandi

On the right is Pandi, on the left is New Pandi.

Gibs LOVES pandas and has loved Pandi (the Pillow Pet) since he got him when he was little (and for some reason started calling pandas "pandi's" when he was little).  He is the one thing that Gibs almost always chooses to bring out of bed with him in the morning (and sometimes a blanket too) and often chooses Pandi to take along in the car when we go places.  Over time, people have laughed at how well loved Pandi is (and he does get baths in the wash machine, that just doesn't help).  Last week at a garage sale, Gibs saw a brand new looking panda pillow pet and of course wanted him.  I first told him "no".  Afterall, we have SO many stuffed animals.  But then after seeing how sad he was and since this New Pandi looked like he was never used, for $3, I couldn't resist.  Gibs now has been loving his New Pandi and loves to tell people that he now has two pandi's:).  Pretty sure every single person can tell which panda is new and which is VERY well loved:).  I'm curious how long New Pandi will look, well, new. :-)

Carpet...check!

Our carpet was finished being installed today, our indoor light fixtures were installed yesterday and our driveway/porch was poured yesterday!   The plumbers will hopefully come soon to install toilets/sinks and then early next week our house should finally be sided.  After that, the excavator needs to bring some more dirt and then I would think we could get inspections done and start moving in!  We are really excited.

 It's hard to get nice pictures when everything looks so messy now:). 

 The kids were really excited about the carpet!

Ring around the rosie in Gibs' room...

 I love how Greta joins right in with Gibs and Layla...

 Greta's room with carpet...

 Layla's room...

 Gibs'...

 Can you tell they are a little excited to be moving soon?! :-)

 Watching a fly that was on his last leg  wing... 

Being silly pretending to sleep...

18 Month Stats

Greta had her 18 month appointment last week.  She didn't like the doctor touching her at first, but then in typical Greta fashion, found her happy place with her thumb and was fine.  She is not talking a whole lot, but the doctor said she's still in the normal range for an 18 month old.  They expect them to say at least 8 words in addition to mama  and dada and she does, but she doesn't say that many words and doesn't put any words together yet.  I'm sure eventually she will:-).  She was doing well in all other areas (fine and gross motor skills and such).  The doctor asked if I had any questions about potty training and I said I didn'tn because I do not plan on training her any time soon!  She definitely does not seem ready yet! 
We love her so much and still think of her as our "baby" and probably always will:-). She is a major mama's girl and loves to snuggle up on my shoulder and suck her thumb.  It's sweet to see her suck her thumb now, but obviously at some point, we'll have to work on breaking that habit!  She still loves baby dolls, but not quite as much as she used to.  She loves playing anything her big bro and big sis are playing with.  She also loves playing outside with her cozy coupe and with scooters and little trikes.  Here are her stats.

Weight: 22 lbs 6 oz -- just under 50th %
Height: 32.25" -- between 50th and 75th %
Head: 46.6 cm -- around 50th %

Funny that her percentages were all exactly the same as Gibs' at 18 months.  Funny too that when I looked back on my blog for Gibs' stats, I was over halfway done with my pregnancy with Greta and when I looked back at Layla's 18 month stats, I was less than a month away from having Gibson.  I can't imagine that now.  I enjoy not being pregnant:-).  I love our family of five (and a half = Elvis) and love having Greta as my baby:-).

Paint, Countertops and Flooring!

The painters worked for about a week and got everything painted!  They'll have to come back for touch ups, but we were really happy with how quickly they painted everything!  The flooring/countertop guys then got that all done last Thursday and Friday.

 

Layla wanted a blue room just like her old room.  We did a different shade of blue this time since we wanted to use the blue in other rooms, but she loves it!

 And I'm really happy with how Gibs' room turned out.

We walked to our house from Gavin's house on Friday while the countertop/backsplash/flooring guys were finishing up.

 I hadn't gotten a picture of Greta before in her room.  You can definitely tell by the kids' clothes that the temperature has suddenly gotten much colder!

 Harper looking stylish:)...

 I thought it was cute that all the kidswere looking out Layla's windows:).  Layla will be able to keep a good watch on things from her room:).

They also put our deck on last week.  Can't wait to screen this in so that we can eat ouside bug-free:). 

 The kitchen looks so different with floor, countertops and backsplash!  I'm so happy with how it turned out--looks just like it did in my head, phew! :)

 Laundry room...

 Back hall with the back bath on the left and the laundry room is to the right of the picture...

 Master bath...

 Kids' bath...

 

I'm so happy with how things are turning out (thankfully:-D).  It feels like we picked all of it out so long ago, I almost forgot what I chose:).  Baumann Builders seriously made it SO easy though with making our selections.  I would definitely recommend them!  You just go to their showroom to pick everything out and their interior decorator helps you choose everything.  Since we've decided to build, I've had so many people tell me that they could never build b/c it'd be way too many decisions and way too much work.  Baumann makes it easy!  And they didn't tell me to say that:). 

Siding will hopefully go on this week, then it will really look almost complete!  The siders apparently are really behind due to the cold/wet early spring we had so we'll pretty much getting siding on and move in shortly after:).  I'm sure our neighbors will appreciate no longer seeing our "green house" (as the kids call it). :)