Carleigh Walking

I finally figured how how to hook up my video camera to our Mac. Here is short movie I filmed and edited tonight of Carleigh walking in her first pair of shoes.

Mud Room Project

So child rearing has recently halted any new projects. I am bucking that trend by attempting a renovation of the mud room that leads from our back yard to our kitchen. This is one room in the house we have not touched since moving in. It was covered in a particularly bad wallpaper pattern, which we always intended to change. Over the past five years had slowly filled up to about chest high with random junk. I took the "before" photos after cleaning out the junk, so you will have to leave that up to your imagination.



The plan for the room is to clear out everything, strip the wall paper, paint the walls and trim, and furnish the room with built in storage. This should give us storage for the remaining random junk, as well at alleviate the amount of things we keep in the kitchen and dining room.



Progress on the room has definitely been slow. I have been finding that things go much more slowly with a baby in the house. Removing wall paper istedious and time consuming. I also got a nasty surprise when I started removing the wall paper. It was installed directly on the wallboard, with no spackling or primer between. This meant that pulling down the paper also pulled off the top layer of the wall board. This has added a new step to the project, covering the exposed paper with a skim coat of wallboard joint compound.



After a couple of weekends of work, I finally got all the wall paper stripped. This allowed me to move on to the skim coat the next weekend.



As of tonight, I got the skim coat applied. This took four buckets of joint compound. Tomorrow, I sand. Then I can finally primer and paint the walls and ceiling. After that, the cabinets go in. I will post another update once I am finished with the final product.

Carleigh Photo Update

So Carleigh has been up to much over the last three months: Christmas, New Year's, air travel, and learning to smile. Here is a photo album highlighting what she has been up to. Click to see all of the pictures.

Carleigh Dec 07 - Mar 08

Carleigh's First Month

So Carleigh will be 4 weeks old tomorrow. I have uploaded a selection of photos taken over the last month.

Carleigh's First Month

Birth Photos

Well, no photos of the actual birth, but photos taken right after and when we first got home with Carleigh.

Birth Photos 11/28/07 8:51 AM

Baby Shower

This is a bit late, but I have been busy lately. We had our baby shower last month. Lots of friends and family showed up. It was really a good time. Thanks to everyone who came down for it! We drew in people from as far away as Florida; Lizz's mother, Linda from Gainesville, and Taylor all the way from Miami.



We got lots of clothes for the baby; roughly 97% pink. We were really happy to have the gender confirmed during the last ultrasound, since a boy would probably end up scarred wearing all that pink. Dan and Debbie's daughter Morgan helped Lizz with the unwrapping. She was so well behaved, and did not get jealous or anything of all the toys. We can only hope our daughter does so well. Based on her parents, I am bracing for a feral child who communicates via grunts and olfactory marking. That way I will be happy with anything more advanced.



Morgan did get to play with the awesome pedal car my parents got us. I also thought that this was just a really good picture.

Baby Face

Here is the picture we took home from the 36 week ultrasound. She definitely looks like me.



Everything checks out fine. Her weight was estimated at 6lbs 9oz. With 4 weeks to go, gaining 0.5lb per week, she is going to be a big one. The margin of error is +/- 1 lb, so at the low end she will be average sized. Lizz doesn't want to talk about the high end.

So we are getting close, two weeks until the due date. We will see how punctual she is.