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End of April update

Not much happening this month… We have continued to work on the bathroom as we’ve had time – which isn’t much. We have been to different parks the past two weekends with Peyton and she absolutely loves playing on the slides and other toys… We have photos online of some of her fun. We also made it to the beach last weekend with Brett and Trina.

Grandma and Papa Sellers made it down this past weekend. They had a blast with Peyton as always. Peyton is growing and continues to wow us with new words and dances. She’s learning so much and so quickly. The daycare is teaching her all sorts of songs like “The Wheels on the Bus,” “Deep and Wide” and “Jesus Loves Me”. She also learned to say “no ma’mn,” something she apparently hears a lot from us…

Other than that, things have been mostly quiet and uneventful. We have been doing really well…

Random updates…

We had a full weekend this weekend. Friday, Grandma and Papa Sellers came into town. We just had a low key night at home. Everyone is feeling better from our various infections, so we enjoyed our time this weekend. We started early Saturday in the bathroom installing the plumbing for the new tub/shower. We finished that by mid-day and so we removed some of the subflooring in the bathroom so that we can replace it and hopefully correct a hump we have in the floor. Updated photos have been added in the Remodel gallery.

We took some family photos with the grandparents during the afternoon. This is their first professional photos with Peyton. Her other set of grandparents got to have professional photos during Christmas this year.

On Sunday, we had another play date with Layna and Olivia. Photos have been added to our .Mac gallery.

Bathroom update

This weekend, Brett came over and put in the backer board for the tile around the tub. That is all ready to go and now we can do the rough in on the plumbing. I hope that we can get that taken care of this weekend. My uncle will be doing the connections for the plumbing once we get the rough in complete. Brett can proceed with the tile around the tub after the rough in and some other things are sorted out.

We also went shopping and got all of the tile for the floors and the tub. Its all in our garage now waiting for installation, but I have a few things that need sorting out before that.

I need to figure out what to do with the ceiling. I’m thinking of making it a flat ceiling, but we don’t have flat ceilings anywhere else in the house. And I don’t do drywall. Anyone know a good drywall person??

We went ahead and ripped out the sink and cabinets in the bathroom too so that we can get a better plan of what we need to do with the floors. I’ll take some pictures tonight and post the progress…

Quick, quarantine the house!

That’s what the doctor could have said on Saturday. After working on the bathroom with Brett (ok, while watching Brett work on the bathroom), I went to the doctor to see what was ailing me. I told her that I was having problems and thought I either had an ear or sinus infection. She inspected my ear and said that didn’t really seem to be the problem. A little irriated maybe. She said open up – say Ahhh…. I did and the reply was quick – yeah, there’s the problem. A positive strep test later, she comes back and gives me the verdict. Great.

So I call and give the news to Jen. Turns out the cute little give Mommy kisses, give Daddy kisses trick we taught Peyton recently isn’t quite as cute when Daddy has strep throat. So, Jen does a 360 in the middle of 501 and heads for Doctor’s Care, too. Nevermind the errands she was running. The same doctor attends to her and Peyton. Verdict – a double ear infection for Peyton, a sinus infection for Jen.

Peyton and I were out of school/work yesterday to recover, but Jen was non-contageous and decided to work. We’ve used a couple cans of Lysol around the house trying to disinfect everything. But we all seem to be on the mend.

Actually, we didn’t know Peyton had any problems. She was user usual happy self so we had no idea she had an ear infection. We see that she’s inherited her mother’s and her grandfather Coffin’s tolerance for pain… She’s been great about taking her antibiotics and laying there for the ear drops – even though you can tell they feel funny to her.

Everyone is back at work or school today. And we all seem to be feeling much better. And we’re so glad!!!

One down… one to go…

We recieved the title for my truck over the weekend. That is one car payment down and one to go. We just have Jen’s car which should be paid for early next year… YAY!