They’ve made quite a bit of progress in the last week and started putting the drywall up. The shower is staring to take shape – as we literally changed the design 3 times this week. These are from yesterday and I haven’t been down yet today, but it looks like all the walls and ceiling should be finished soon. Then it’s just floors, doors, bathroom fixtures, and the finishing touches.
Reagan was 18 months old last week – I know, I can’t believe it, either!
We took a trip to the doctor last week for a check-up. It was an interesting, because it was the first that she didn’t get any vaccines, but she is really starting to know places. Once we got called back, she was so upset about being there, she wouldn’t even stand on the scale. She eventually warmed up, but it took a little while.
Her stats were – weight: 27lb. (between 50th and 75th percentile) and height: 34.5 in. tall (over the 97th percentile)! That height really jumped and you can really see now how much taller she is than the other kids.
Later that afternoon, we made it to Georgetown’s President’s Annual Christmas Party. It was her first time seeing Santa and she did pretty well. She wouldn’t sit on his lap, but we did get a nice picture and she’s been carrying it around all over the house.
One of Reagan’s favorite words right now is “mess” and that is quite appropriate for the last week’s worth of work in the basement. They ran all the electrical for the outlets and recessed lights. Then they got started on the plumbing and that’s when the mess started.
On Friday, they started digging to search for the sewer line and left piles of dirt everywhere. Today, they started to make some connections and fill in some of the holes.
(shower on the left, toilet on the right in the far corner and sink on the right in the near corner)
The last thing I should have been doing tonight was changing the blog background. I could have been going to bed or shopping for presents or sending much needed alumni chapter emails, but since there are only a few short hours until December is here, this seemed like a better thing to cross off my list. I did get some things posted on Craigslist tonight, though.
Now I hope we have decent weather this weekend and we can get our tree and take the fall decorations up and replace them with Christmas things.
So, after one day of work last Monday, they took a few days off (without telling us, but we’ll overlook that for now). Today, they got started again and framed out the walls so we can start to see the space that will soon be finished.
Tim and I have been talking for a while about a pretty major project for our upstairs – converting the tv room into a bathroom and shifting most of the current bathroom space into Reagan’s room for a little more space and to give her a closet.
We’ve been tossing this idea around and really didn’t have any pictures of what this would actually look like or which contractor to go with. Then, we went into a store – well, a shop full of older architectural pieces – and they had a beautifully refinished clawfoot tub. We decided that, despite the expense, it was perfect and would be a great start to the bathroom design.
But, we still had the problem of where do we live while the upstairs construction is going on? And, we would be losing a living space and couldn’t come up with a solution for moving the tv to the first floor.
So, we decided the best thing is to add a bathroom and finish part of the basement and to do that first so we can “live” down there while they work on the upstairs. We called one of the contractors we had been talking with and, over the weekend, signed him up to start today! They started today and upgraded our electrical box and they’re starting to move wires and pipes on the basement ceiling.
We Tim spent a few hours in basement over the weekend to start getting things ready. If you have ever even peeked into the basement, you can see that this is a major change already. Most of the things that were piled all over the back portion of the basement are now efficiently packed in the front, hopefully out of the way of all the work.
Now I just hope the Christmas decorations are close enough to the outside that we can get to them in the next few weeks.
