The Florida Gatchel Daily

October 19, 2010

Noah and the Bird House

Quite awhile back, at one of our many trips to Michael's, Miesje and I had picked up some cute little $1 birdhouses for the kiddos to paint. Since then, we've just never taken the opportunity to do it. Well that all changed this morning!

Miesje (who's half way there - yay for Baby C 2.0!) and Coen came over and we broke out the paint supplies to finally paint those houses! I think that Noah really enjoyed himself, you'll have to check out the pictures and let me know what you think.

Otherwise, we had LOTS of fun playing today. Noah and I spent quite a bit of time playing with fire trucks and the dump truck. His imagination is really starting to kick into high gear and it's fun to experience that with him.

Funny story of the day: When Shell and Dudley went to Universal they brought Noah back a Spongebob book. In the book, Squidward asks for peace and quiet, and in the book, you turn this wheel to give him earplugs. So Noah and I are turning the wheel, and I ask him what Squidward wants and he tells me "ear binkies" It took me a minute, and then I started laughing hysterically as I realized that Mom and Shell call a pacifier a 'plug' while I call it a 'binky'. Only my Noah Joe....

I managed to finish organizing the kid's closet today (shudders at the thought of having to do it again anytime soon...) and also got my crafting closet cleaned out and organized (it will actually function, now!). Now to just organize each individual craft (I got the sewing stuff straightened out at least) and I'll be a happy girl :)

Doing pumpkins with the Florida Fam this week, so I'm starting to think about the stuff I need to get together for that. I am not going as all out as I normally do (in fact it's going to be REALLY low key) but I have been toying with the idea of building a haunted gingerbread house with Noah. I think he might really like that... Anyone have any thoughts?

Alright, more tomorrow, but no promise of pictures because I see that blogger says it will be disabling its image uploading ability tomorrow. I will try to remember to get here early and get pictures up, though :) Until then...

Getting ready

He got to wear one of Mama's t-shirts

A before shot

In progress

Coen painting, too!

They are too cute together

Painting away

He got some paint on my jeans so I returned the favor...

The finished product!

October 18, 2010

Kayla tries to find the Mama

It's been a very busy day at the Gatchel household! The kids and I had lots of fun playing with all kinds of toys and reading books, and I somehow managed to get the whole house cleaned and 5 loads of laundry done, too. And I went outside after dinner to finish weeding the front. While I was outside, Mikayla was trying to find where I went. Grant says she spent almost the entire time I was outside watching me out the bedroom window :)

Painting birdhouses with Miesje and Coen tomorrow - can't wait! Hopefully lots of pictures then...

Thing 1 and Thing 2 playing together (right after this, he was giving her hugs and kisses, it was too cute!)

Kayla going for a crawl

Noah had to prove he could roll around on the floor, too...

Where's Mama?

Still don't see her...

You're sure she's out there, Dad?

There she is!

Such a big kiddo

She pulled herself up all by herself...

Still watching the Mama

Hey Mikayla, what's the duck say?

October 17, 2010

House Updates, Kids and Chili's

So after my marathon blogging efforts of this morning, we spent a Sunday mostly here working on odds and ends projects. I got the kids closet and old clothes sorted and cleaned out (FINALLY, just need one tote for Mikayla's stuff yet...) and Grant got lots of playtime in with Thing 1 and Thing 2. I think he might have read 3 dozen books to Noah this morning... Then we met up with some of the gang for dinner to get the chance to see the Kunkle's one more time. Now that they're up in Maryland we've really been missing them and are glad to get to spend any time we can with them. We're glad that there's an end in sight and that they'll be back here permanently eventually. And it was wonderful to get to see some more of the Florida Fam, too, since we really haven't had the chance since we got home from Ohio. It really reminds me how great it is to have a good group of friends to rely on... More tomorrow.

New kitchen color (yay, finally!) Grant did a fabulous job on it while we were gone

It's not as orange as it looks, I promise. It took awhile to grown on me, but especially at night, I really like it now

Noah had to say 'cheese'

Paint in the bathrooms (yay finally!)

And new fixtures

And cabinetry, too!

My reading nook in the bedroom. My double papasan is one of the best furniture purchases EVER!

We re-did the guest bath, too

Loving the color

Noah told me he had to say 'cheese' again

Mikayla looking more than a little adorable

Did you say I'm going to get to eat, Mom?

This makes me think that we should change the phrase to "faster than a speeding Mikayla"

Yay for time with the Florida Fam!

Hangin' out

Mikayla investigates a lemon

Not quite sure about this...

Still trying to figure it out

Ewww, bitter!

Randomosities

OK, I think this is officially all the pictures I had on any camera :) These are just some odds and ends. We have been doing a lot of work on the house lately (both bathrooms redone, fixing up the master bedroom, painting the kitchen/dining room, new light fixtures, etc) so I've included some pictures of some of those things, too. I will try to document the other things here the next few days, too. In the meantime...