The PB and Js

Monday, October 3, 2011

Brooke's big girl bed

For the past few months, Brooke has been having some issues at bedtime. She wants us to stay with her until she falls asleep. So every night one of us sits in the hallway just outside her door until she falls asleep. In the mornings, she usually wakes up around 6am and cries for us. At that point we'll bring her in bed with us for the next hour until we're ready to get up.

When Paige was this (exact) age, we transitioned her into a toddler bed. We did that because she had been trying to climb out of the crib. Brooke, has not made any attempts to get out on her own. But we figured since Brooke is already having some issues with bedtime, maybe if she was excited to sleep in a big girl bed she will improve? So yesterday we set up the toddler bed in her room, but we're keeping the crib in there as well until we're sure she's ok being out of it. It took awhile for her to go down for a nap because she was pretty excited. And bedtime went fairly smooth last night too. She even slept in until 7am on her own!

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Flooded basement

In the last 7 days, weather.com is reporting that we got hit with 8-12" of rain. That's equivalent to the ANNUAL rainfall in Phoenix. The worse for us was on Tuesday night. It had rained all day and continued through the night. I'm guessing the majority of that 8-12" happened within 24 hours.

When we went to leave the house yesterday morning, we found about an inch of water in our basement. There are 2 parts to the basement, the finished and unfinished parts. The unfinished part is where the washer, dryer and furnace are. And there's a drain in there as well as a drain in the garage. The water was moving down the drains, slowly but surely. I used a mop to help pull the water from the corners and away from the appliance to the drain and pulled up a few small rugs we have. After I had mopped, that part quickly dried up. The finished part has a shag carpet and no drain. So that water just sat in there. Luckily, just recently we moved a lot of clothes that were in boxes into plastic storage bins. There were some boxes on the floor, but we quickly got them picked up and I don't think much if anything was ruined. Except the carpet.
We're not upset about the carpet getting soaked. It was very old, dirty shag carpet that was going to be replaced sooner or later. But we just had to advance that timeline a bit and pulled half of it up last night and we'll probably tackle the rest tonight as it's getting kind of stinky down there now.

We were so excited when we saw that there was tile under the carpet. If we had known that, we probably would've pulled this up a long time ago! Some of the tile is a little chipped around the edges where the carpet was nailed to it, but other than that it's in good condition. But then as we pulled some up over by the closet I uncovered a number 6. And I said to Justin, why is there a 6 on our tile. He quickly ripped up more carpet by the number like it was a Christmas present and then exclaimed "It's a shuffleboard court"!

At this point, we still have the other half of the carpet to pull out, who knows what we'll uncover on that side!

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Kindergarten Favorites

I hope I can remember to do this each year, starting with Kindergarten!

First Day of School 2011

The girls were excited this morning to go back to school. Brooke is going through a shy phase, so she was sort of hiding behind Paige here:

Paige loves getting her picture taken now and most of the time will even smile for me! She is so excited to be in Kindergarten this year!

And here's Brooke, still being a little shy, but at least smiling:

This is outside of school. Paige did well when I left her, but Brooke didn't want me to go. She's been extremely attached to mama lately and being home for the past week with me hasn't helped. They are trying to smile, but the sun was just so bright!