It reads as follows:
Yes, you may get in my room.
No making a mess.
No turning on the trains.
No jumping.
No farting in my room.
No getting on my bed.
Ask before getting onto my bed.
Jonah’s Rules for Lucy
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New Place
I’m just now finally getting around to posting these pictures. Initially, I had a whole set of about 50 pictures that I had wanted to upload into a set on flickr. I’ve now decided against that and only uploaded a few. Most of the reason I am hesitant to upload all of the photos is that we just did a round of painting in all of the bedrooms and have added some more decoration. Jonah and Gabe’s room is now a nice sky blue, which matches perfectly with their shelves and beds. Lucy’s room has walls of alternating colors: pastel pink and pastel purple. The master bedroom is now purple. In both of the children’s rooms, I have painted in a magnetic chalkboard on their wall. This week, I hope, we will get that framed and then I will feel like I can finally take pictures and share them with my friends who are interested in seeing.
Anywho, here are some of the pictures of our new place. We have to admit that we are happy with our new space and are enjoying it thus far.
Our living room:
Apologies for the lighting.
Entrance wall:
Living Room Looking Into the Kitchen:
Dining Room:
Hallway and Laundry Closet:
Lucy’s room is to the left.
Hallway to Jonah’s Room
Bikes in Garage:
There are a few more pictures uploaded to flickr that I didn’t post here. I hope to post the newly painted room soon!
1st Grade!
I apologize for not getting the “new place” photos up. We are still unpacking and we just finished a round of painting. I would like to have the rest of the decorating done before I post photos, but I think I’ll just go ahead and post them soon. I don’t think that I could ever be done “decorating”. hahaha
Anyway, yesterday was Jonah’s first day back at school. I took a bunch of pictures of him getting on and off the bus. He was excited and scared, but when he came home, he seemed to have a good day. I cannot believe that Jonah is already in 1st grade! My does time fly by so fast!
Jonah’s Ready!
Jonah on his way out the door!
Running to the bus stop…
I have more uploaded to my flickr account, if you want to see them. Jonah has a friend that he met in the apartment community that he now gets to ride the bus with.
A Sneak Peak at my Garden
My Garden is getting set up nice. The bird feeders have attracted many different birds that Jonah and Lucy love to look at each morning.
The blueberry bush is now thriving in the ground. It hated its pot.
Next year I will work on digging up the bushes and planting flowers, I think.
Jonah – Newscaster
Jonah visits WLFI for a tour. His favorite part: The weatherman and green screen, of course! However, the news desk takes a close second place!
Moved In
We’re finally moved into our new place.
It took a while to get our internet and phone up and running, but it was worth it.
Lucy and Jonah no longer share a room. Yay! We have a grassy area outside our door we can let them run around and play on — plus, we can plant and landscape the mulched area around our apartment. I’m so excited! A blueberry and rosemary bush have already gone in, and I have my tomatoes hanging, and some potted plants on the brick portion of our patio. Today I hung two bird feeders, which led to much enjoyment for the kids as they watched birds and chipmunks spring forth for the new food.
I still have about 14 boxes left to unpack, but hopefully our apartment will be picture ready and guest-worthy soon!!! (This weekend, if hubbs and I get our butts in gear! Ha!) 
Yeesh
It’s been a while since I’ve last written on here. I’m not promising that I will be back constantly, but I want to see if I can try this again. I miss blabbering on the internet, whether coherently or incoherently.
Pictures to come, shortly
Saturday, after driving 3 hours from Dayton, Ohio, we arrived home to what looked like a mess left behind from a tornado. The power was out, the streets were flooded a few feet high, trees and power lines were down. We all looked at each other and thought, “wow, we must have missed something BIG.”
Yesterday I had the opportunity to take some photos of the damage in our area. I am amazed that even after clean-up, there was still a mess of trees around.
I will get pictures up shortly, but in the meantime, here are some links to satisfy your appetite:
The majority of these pictures are actually within a few hundred feet of where we live. Pictures 2 and 20 are of trees that are right outside of our patio window.
http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/lifestyles/photo_galleries/photos-damage-from-saturday-storm
Here is the first blog post from the meteorologist:
http://blogs.wlfi.com/2010/07/18/july-17-2010-west-lafayettelafayette-microburst/
Here is the second post:
http://blogs.wlfi.com/2010/07/19/looks-like-macroburst-not-microburst-hit-w-laflaf/
I Wish I Had Photographic Evidence
For the past couple of months, I have been temporarily working at Willow Stained Glass Studio. My job mostly consists of sitting around enjoying art and ambient jazzy/classical music attending to customers and selling items. Since I’ve work there, I’ve already acquired 3 pieces. There is another I have my eye on; hopefully I can acquire that one soon.
Anyway, back to my story!
This last week the shop owner posted on her facebook that a chipmunk had happened its way into the shop. There were lots of jokes and talk about how to get rid of the chipmunk. I, of course, assumed that the chipmunk had been “taken care of” when I arrived to open shop on Saturday morning.
However, as I approached the shop, I noticed a rather large crowd gathered around the right side gallery window. They were pointing and laughing and shouting “Oh!” and “How cute!”
Once the crowd saw that I was there to open the shop doors, I was alerted to the small brown mammalian creature nibbling on a Nutragrain (!) bar, sitting on one of the art stands in the window.
I giggled and said “Oh!” and “Well, I guess the little guy got a chance to stay.”
As I opened the doors, a few people came in behind me to get a look at the creature. All of the commotion must have scared it away because out of the corner of my eye, I saw it jump into some bags hanging on a coat rack and then flee across the floor at my feet into the back room.
After the people left (and after lots of “cute” talk about chipmunks), I went on the lookout for Mr. Chipmunk. I also decided to do some damage control.
I noticed the Nutragrain bar wrapper on the couch, tore open by ravenous teeth and a trail of tiny little chipmunk poo on the couch. Yeah. That was gross.
So I went about cleaning up the mess when I found that the chipmunk had also decided to get into some raisins and what seemed to be remnants of some kind of nuts.
Then I found a banana with bite marks in it. Apparently the banana peel was too much for the feisty Mr. Chipmunk.
So after all that cleaning, I had a good group of customers coming in to see if they could get a peek at the chipmunk in the shop. Unfortunately, nobody saw him. Perhaps he boosted some of my sales, though.
When the time came to close the shop, I decided to do some damage control. I took out all the trash, placed the non-hampered fruit in the refrigerator, and ensured there were no other little things Mr. Chipmunk could get into that would cause a mess.
Hopefully when the shop opens tomorrow, there isn’t a huge chipmunk mess everywhere and he isn’t dying of thirst/hunger. Well, he has toilet water if he gets desperate.
And so then the question comes to mind: Did the chipmunk enjoy that Nutragrain bar?
Note to Self
Don’t post Modest Mouse lyrics about backing into cop cars as your facebook status. People WILL worry and inquire.
