Emily Rose

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Work and Play Made for Quite a Day

Maybe you know that I love to paint, or perhaps you have figured I do because you have seen the walls of my house in pictures. Well, either way... I like to paint and love to see the transformation in a room from something so simple. Therefore, when Adam and Angie bought a new house with a couple of poorly painted rooms I offered to remedy the situation.

With that said, do you remember the "dormitory" from the last post? The one that fit two queen beds side by side (with a walkway between) that I said was BIG and I was glad? This one?

Well you guessed it! That room, one of their spare rooms, was the room I was meant to transform. (It being BIG wasn't as great in this scenario - on Friday I was wanting to start taping off instead of hanging around outside because I was a little nervous about the job ahead of me.) Luckily, Papa was willing to help me out and so by about 10 o'clock on Saturday morning we had cleared out the room and started to work.

While we were working, Emily was playing with Mimi and Uncle Ryan - looking at...

this harmless guy!

or girl!

Emily was quick to come up and report to me...

and couldn't forget to tell Papa too.

Then she was off for more play outside. Of course she found a ladybug...

and checked on the tadpoles too.

Meanwhile, Adam and Angie had returned from their separate errands and jumped right in getting the primer on the walls. Thank goodness, things really sped up with two extra painters.

Apparently Emily was worn out from all of her playing and even after a long nap she still just wanted to lay on Mimi.

After many layers of primer and hours of work it was time to apply the pleasant "Toasted Almond" ...

and before it was too late I made the A's take a picture in the first room they painted in their first home together.

Then it was BACK TO WORK!

What a room and what a day! The toasted almond is MUCH more pleasing to the eye and it is a fabulous paint job, if I do say so myself. I think Adam and Angie are glad to have that green gone too!

Thank you to Papa, Adam and Angie who worked hard on "my project." Also, many thanks to Mimi and Uncle Ryan who were working all day too. "Playing" with Emily in the heat is not always fun or easy.

* Paul had returned home for his own well deserved play day on Saturday, finally cashing in his Christmas present. More on his adventures later...

Sunday, May 16, 2010

The Out of Towners

We left town again on Friday to attend Uncle Adam's master's graduation...

and everyone was there.

Emily did fairly well at the very long ceremony - we did resort to using her binky as a plug since she always has a lot to say...

but let her really cheer and yell when Uncle Adam was finally on the big screen.

After the ceremony, the party moved to Uncle Adam and Aunt Angie's new house...

and everyone started cooking,

hanging out,

and just having fun.

At the very end of the evening we made Adam pose with his cake and all of us - minus Paul and Emily (he was on the road home and she was in bed).

Then it was time for everyone to find a place to sleep. This is the "dormitory" - we had two queen air beds for Mimi, Papa, and me. Of course we also had Emily's pack n' play. Good thing it was a BIG room!

Congratulations Adam!! We loved celebrating you and your new house!!!

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

The Downfall

So what happens when you travel, go to bed late, and get up early - all while your body battles allergies?? You catch something that really makes you sick!

Yep, poor little girl went to bed Monday night with a low fever and by Tuesday at lunch she was 102. After a four hour nap she was still boiling hot and looked like this...

I asked her if she had an owie and she said, "uh-huh." Then I asked her where her owie was and she said "chin" but was pointing at her throat (I guess we need to work on "neck") which is not one of her typical owie locations.

It was about this time that I checked in on Cooper's condition (since he was feverish this past weekend) and found out that on Monday he was diagnosed with strep. BUMMER!

I didn't tell Emily... she was finally starting to cool down and enjoy her show.

Anyway, since it was ten to five on Tuesday I decided I would wait until the morning to call the doctor. We got an appointment at 8:30 Wednesday morning and I dragged my very sick daughter over to his office. This is a little bit of how Emily was acting...

(In this video you are jumping around the room, not looking sick at all. Plus, when someone says something down the hall, you respond, "hello?")

Whatever Emily, make me look like an overreactive mother! She was talking up a storm, thanking the nurses for holding the door, jumping off the scale, showing everyone the cupcake on her shorts and requesting stickers. She did have a pretty red throat but her culture came back negative and she hasn't been running a fever all day.

Regardless of how it "looked" at the doctor, I am glad she is feeling better and hope she stays this way - move along nasty virus...