Our Old kitchen

Our external hard drive broke on us, so I thought I had lost all of those pictures. Thankfully, we were able retrieve most of a data through a software. So, now I have pictures of our old kitchen -- well, this after we restained our cabinets.

Our old kitchen before:

Hannah's playpen while we tiled the floor:

Mike tiling the floor:

Hannah's new room

We never made a baby room when Hannah was born. We stuck a crib and a changing table in our study next to our bedroom and that's been her room. However, I thought it was time to prepare one of the back rooms for her. So, while Mike was working on the kitchen, I finally painted Hannah's room. I think it turned out ok.

Mike's Hard work

We've been remodeling our kitchen off and on for about ... 2.5 years ... I don't know how they do it in an hour on HGTV!

However, after much hard work by Mike all this week, now our backsplash is finally in! Now we just need new blinds and paint the walls! Anyone have any ideas what color to paint it??

Hannah and her great-grandmother

Playdoh

We've always had these sets of playdoh and Hannah plays with them - well, plays with them by taking it in and out of the box. We've never opened them, since she still puts things in her mouth and I didn't want to scrape playdoh off the carpet.

Recently at church, she started playing with playdoh and loves it. She then realized that the playdoh at home is the same thing!

Yesterday, she motioned for me to open it but being relunctant of having a huge mess of playdoh, I grunted and pretended that I couldn't open it.

She then grabs my hand and takes me to the kitchen. She motions for something on the counter. I picked her up and then she proceeds to reach for the butcher block and pulls out one of the scissors. She then takes the scissors and starts stabbing the cap with the scissors. After a couple of stabs (and me taking the scissor from her), she motions for me to use it open the playdoh.

It was quite funny. After this I relented and opened the playdoh for her. I had no idea she already knew about scissors and that they are used to open things.