The Little Mermaid

Thursday night Jason was playing with Eva, dropping her onto the bed. Then she started crying and she said her arm hurt. :( Pretty quick I figured out it seemed something like the last time she broke her arm, she wouldn't calm down and nothing was making her forget her arm hurt. I'm sure it will never get easier, seeing one of my babies hurting. We went to the urgent care, same place as last time, but the doctor couldn't see a break, he even had a radiologist check it out. So they put her in a splint and the doc said to come back on Saturday and he would check her out to make sure she was okay.

Eva and I went back today, here she are in the patient room. She was feeling much better today.

(She wanted me to sing with her, but I told her I didn't know that song.)
Her arm is still swollen and it hurts her to bend at her elbow, so we've been referred to the pediatric orthropedic doctor, also the same as last time. Poor Eva. But there is an upside to it. This time she hurt her right arm, which is the hand she sucks her fingers on. So hopefully this will break that habit.

Time to Break Out the Tools

Since we got home approximately 5 days ago it has been non-stop renovation in our house. Let me tell you what has been crossed off the "To Do List". (Abby, is that appropriate use of quotation marks?) One of the hardest things was done before we got home. My friend Janae was staying in our house while we were in Idaho and she painted our living room, which involved standing on the "don't step on this step" step of a ladder while painting with a q-tip taped to a toothbrush, or something like that. Yeah, have I mentioned how much I'm going to miss Janae?

Done on the "To Do"
-Paint bedroom
-Bedroom decorations
-Make headboard
-Replace light fixtures in pantry area, laundry room, closet, 2 hallways, kitchen
-New sconces on 3 ceiling fans
-Paint bathroom cabinets (ALMOST done in 1st bathroom)
-Take down blinds in front room
-Order hardware for doors
-Finish trim in kitchen
-clean out kids closets

Still left "To Do"
-sod in backyard patchy areas
-front yard landscaping
-clean carpets
-paint cabinets in kids' bathroom
-buy and install hardware for cabinet doors
-install hardware on interior doors
-touch up paint on ceilings and walls, some popcorn texture is going back on the kitchen ceiling, as much as it pains me
and a bunch of other little stuff....I just realized this was getting boring.

So, the headboard........AMAZING!!!!!!!!! I (and Jason) painted the wall behind our bed a teal-ish color right after we moved into our house with the intentions of painting the rest of the room white and getting a black headboard with white and black decorations. A year later...DONE. And a year was a long time, that teal did NOT look good with the tan/khaki color on the walls. I LOVE MY BEDROOM! Thank you Jason for giving me a headboard after 3 1/2 years of having our king size bed. I picked the color and fabric for the headboard, but Jason did all the work--Alex, my brother-in-law, helped out some too, thanks Alex. :)

The kitchen looks SO much better with the lighting!! We decided to do track lighting and I didn't realize the kitchen could look that much better, but it does.
Before:During:I know this picture is blurry, but don't you just love the smile on Jason's face from holding the skill saw, or whatever that thing is called.After:
One of these days I'll blog about our trip home. It was wonderful and not long enough. It was so sad leaving. Someday we'll be back though, for good!