Today Sarah continued her streak by getting into the medicated chest rub and getting all over my bedspread and pillow. She used too much soap cleaning up and got soap suds all over the bathroom.

But she made up for it slightly later. A repairman was here fixing the front blinds and Sarah became his best friend and constant companion. They started talking about princesses at one point and he asked her who her favorite princess was. "Mommy," she said. I had to smile.

Goodbye to Our Sweet Little House

We put our rental house on the market this week. You can go search the MLS and find it. We lived in this house from 2005 to 2008. It was a wonderful house where we have lots of great memories. I have been feeling very nostalgic as we have been there the last few weeks getting it ready for sale. I pulled up some old pictures from when we first bought it. Wow, what a change! We really did have some vision, I guess. From a neglected, sad place to a charming, warm little home that I hope someone will love as much as we did.

Then:
This is what the house looked like when we first went to look at it. A few of these things had been removed by the time we moved in, but not much!

Can you see the gross old carpet in the living room? Do some of you remember this horrible wall paper in the master bedroom? What a nightmare! The house was so full of stuff!

The house today:
See if you can match up the "before" with the "after"!!

 

Last year when everything was in bloom:

 

The interior with the staging furniture:

Thank you to so many of you who helped with projects on this house and who helped us have so many wonderful memories there.

Today's Mess

Toothpaste all over the bathroom. Sarah, when is it going to end??

Paxton in Nursery

Paxton is officially old enough for nursery in two weeks, so he tested the waters today with Mark. He loved every minute. They blow bubbles at the end while they wait for the parents to arrive. My baby is getting old!

Today's Adventure

The weather is actually nice today so the kids have been getting dirty outside. A few minutes ago I went out back to check on Sarah and she was bouncing on the trampoline buck-naked! Laughing hysterically because she knew she was so funny. She jumped down and started jumping in the mud! What a girl! I'm really in trouble!

Destructive Sarah

Sarah has been on a destructive bent lately. This afternoon she found her cold, soggy Top Ramen noodles from lunch. (Yes, I let my kids eat ramen and, no, I had not washed the dishes.) She dumped them on the floor and proceeded to dance around in the middle of it, smooshing it with her feet all over everything! Yesterday, she emptied out an entire container of baby wipes, and most of a roll of toilet paper in her room. She spilled our container of change all over the bedroom floor this morning, and now we are finding change all over the house. Every day it is something new. You never know what her clever little mind will dream up next. And Paxton isn't much better since he can now carry his stool all over the house to climb up to whatever he wants to explore!

Pax's Route

Pax has created a little route around the living room: Up the stool, onto the side table, over the sofa arm, onto the sofa, down the ground, run around the sofa back to the stool to start again. At first I didn't like him climbing on the furniture, especially because his older siblings follow suit, but it has provided him with so much entertainment the last few days that I have grown to love and even encourage that little circle of activity.