Empty House Tour

All About the Busywork

I haven't posted much recently, we've been fairly busy with busywork and not really doing much else. The kids are just their wonderful selves and aside from Lily getting smarter and PJ still trying to move as much as possible (no actual crawling, pulling up or walking yet but she is working hard at all 3) we haven't had any major milestones to report.

We've been spending a lot of time preparing to move into a new house. Shaun's Grandma Yoko has moved into Shaun's parent's house and decided to fix up her house and rent it to us. It's a great big house, 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, dining room, family room, garage, backyard, fenced in front yard. Yoko has owned the house a long time, it's the house Shaun's mom grew up in. It's kind of an honor to be able to live there and raise our kids in those same rooms. We're incredibly happy with the move, and very grateful to the family for thinking of us.

The house is in need of some work so Shaun spent a lot of time over there clearing the house out so that the construction and repairs could begin. When he was done he recorded a video walkthrough. He was very proud. Can't say I blame him, it was a lot of work! He was going over there in the evenings after working a full day at Comcast too. What a guy!

Since then there's been a lot of progress. Floors ripped up, appliances torn out, bathrooms picked to pieces. We did our part by painting. Eventually we have to do every room in the house but figured our lives would be easiest if we could put the kids somewhere fun while we work so the Playroom is the first to be done. We even got the rug and curtains already so once the floor is in we can finish it up and have it all ready to go for them.

So now we just have to get to the rest of the house, slowly but surely. I'm also starting to work on boxing up our current place and starting my least favorite part of moving - cleaning up the old place :( Boo! With all that's on my plate and the little amount of time I have to work around the kid's schedules I may just hire somebody to clean it for me. We'll have to see how much work there really is to do once we get all our stuff out of here. Maybe I'll just have friends come and pay them in pizza! Isn't that what friends are for? ;)

xoox,

Jenny

We went with a happy yellow, called "Tigger's Tummy".

The fireplace is a little out of place in a playroom. We're going to build a castle facade to cover it up! Nothing too elaborate but it will be cute. We'll attach it to the wall to block it from kiddies and it will be functional too!

PJ is enjoying the deconstructed floors! She can't zip around like that at home on our carpet!

Toddler or PCP?

Lily acts so weird sometimes! I love it :)

But if a grown-up did this there would be a drug test, haha!

Pool Fun

With one of the hottest weekends yet this summer upon us we Cordier's had the urge to hit the pool! For Penelope it was a first and Lily hadn't been in a Big pool in almost 2 years. It was a great time!

Penelope in her first swimsuit, ready to hit the water!

Lily is ready for the pool!

Penelope's first swim!

We have such a couple of water babies! They were both giggling and squealing like mad.

Alicia had Lily learning to trust her swim vest and kicking her legs. It took a minute but she got the hang of it.

Once Lily was in this floaty fish she was on her own, she wouldn't let us near her. Here she had picked up my hair clip and was using it for teeth while she chased us around the pool! Such a good imagination!

Penelope was all about the water, I think she was in the pool for 2 hours straight! She doesn't even stay awake for that long at home most days.