Spaghetti Night

Oh yeah, this is why we don't have spaghetti as often as Allison would like. How could I forget?

Kristen doesn't understand why I think she needs to have her face washed. Why would I want to torture her like that? (Loryn hams it up in the background.)

Loryn tried to convince me she could just lick it all off with her tongue.
"See Mom, I just lick it."
I wasn't convinced she could get it off her eyebrows though.

Loryn's Sliver

Back on March 28 Loryn was playing outside and got hurt. She came in crying with a small cut on her foot (we thought). We were concerned there might be a sliver but couldn't see anything. We continued to watch it for a few days in which time it became infected. That Friday I took her to the pediatrician who got about 5 ml of puss out of it and put her on an antibiotic. He said if it didn't get better by Monday to take her to a podiatrist.

So on Monday, April 5, 2010 I took her to a podiatrist. They did an ultrasound but couldn't really see anything and told us to come back on Wednesday. When we went back they were able to get a better ultrasound picture of her foot and could see there was a foreign object they thought was about 1 cm long.

We decided to do out-patient surgery the next day and were scheduled for 7:30 am. I got there with Loryn on time but as I was filling out the paperwork at the check-in desk Loryn found the sippy cup I had hidden down inside the bag. It scared her to death when I turned around and screamed as she sat there gulping down her sippy. After consulting with the anesthesiologist we determined to try to distract Loryn for the next four hours to keep her from realizing she was hungry and thirsty and try to do the surgery around noon.

Loryn and I had a great time going to Brooke's and playing Rock Band and seeing Brooke's law office. Then the hospital called us to come back.

Long story short, they found a 2 cm wood sliver lodged deep in her foot. The poor girl had been hobbling around with it in there for over a week and a half.

She was so mad when she came out of anesthesia. It took me and two nurses to restrain our usually sweet and agreeable Loryn.

This last Monday we finally got the five stitches out but we took this picture right before going to the podiatrist. Loryn's one complaint to him was that she wanted red stitches not blue ones. He assured her he would put it in her file and be sure to use red ones next time. Lets hope it isn't any time soon.Poor Little Loryn

Final Product (for now)--Master Bathroom

I put the finishing touches on the master bathroom last week but after all the hard work I was too tired to do the finished photos until today. We have been able to use the shower for about three weeks now and we are loving it. Can you believe it? We actually use our master bathroom.




As part of the project I also tiled the vanity countertop and painted the vanity a chocolate brown. This picture was taken during the sanding process of the vanity and before I put in the sink. I was going to save and reuse the existing sink, but I put in a new one and a new faucet instead. In case anyone thinks that was wasteful, the old faucet was brass and dripped randomly. The pop-up drain also leaked randomly making it hard to put anything under the sink because you weren't sure it would be dry or not. Now that I write about it I wonder "WHAT WAS I THINKING?" Of course it was a good idea to go new.



During the tiling process I used the floor in my bedroom to lay out tiles to see which ones would work together. Mysteriously other playroom creatures would work their way into the room to see what was happening.

Kristen turned out to by our toy arranging friend on this occasion.

I made the front panel of the tub removable by tiling a sheet of DensShield and then propping it into place and securing it with silicone. It seems to be very secure. This way when it comes time to do the floor or when we take out the tub, etc, we will be able to simply cut the silicone and remove the panel for easy access. It is an experiment.

BIG IMPROVEMENT!
Maybe next year we will go for the floor.