Finally home

But to me it won't be "home" until we are completely unpacked, the house is done being painted, shutters and mantles are on the windows, the hideous overflowing dumpster in the driveway is gone, all the garbage from the construction is picked up from around the yard and there is no need for the contractor and sub-contractors to come here anymore. Wonder what that date will be. I am hoping it is a "home" by the end of September.

Other than that I am glad to be back in my house. I am truly grateful to my parents for allowing us to stay there for a week and store all of our stuff (that wasn't furniture) on their patio. And my dad is being a tremendous help with getting painting done. All the kids' rooms are painted except for trim and doors; Dylan's was done this morning.

The hardest thing for me is having to look at the raw sheet rock. Here are a couple of pics to show you what we look at for now:








Oh and one minor issue we encountered when we got back in was that the main bathroom downstairs, that was only touched to get to pipes, had mold growing in the vanity and all along the bottom half of the sheet rock. So we had to pull all that out and are now waiting on that to be fixed and replaced. I just want it to be all over.

Does anyone read this?

If I only knew how to add a counter to my blog I would know the answer.

Potty Training

Well it's been about a week and a half now since Aidan was potty trained. The first few days were quite hard and I was sooo grateful that Dave was home to help with the process. The first two days were really rough because Aidan would scream and fight us whenever we tried to get him to sit on the potty. Eventually he got the idea and we learned that we couldn't force him we would have to wait until he had to go.
He had only one accident one day at the park but luckily he was in his bathing suit so it wasn't too bad. And he has been really great with not peeing when sleeping. Two nights ago we stopped putting diapers on him at night and he has been really good.
For a process that started off really rough it ended quicker than I thought and with less struggles than initially thought.
This past Friday I took him to Toys R Us for a special gift for the great work he did.
We are so proud of him at how well he has done.