Paints are back

One of Nathan's favortie activities from this last summer was finger painting. If you remember we spent a lot of time out on our old deck covered in colors. This week has been a little slow and I wanted to change things up for Nate so I decided to pull out our old friend. Nathan loved it :)

The best part of this activity was it helped accomplish 3 things at once.

1. Entertain Nathan

2. Get him to bath

3. Clean the shower

January happenings

Hello all. Long time no blog. January has been a pretty humdrum month for us in the Cefalo home. It started off with a very boring New Years. Jake had to work both day's so we pretty much went to bed early on New Years Eve and I spent the day alone. I did make a fun meal and we did a small celebration around 8:30 before we went to bed but it was really not that eventful.

Nathan has been a real good helper. He is learning so much right now. One of my favorite things to do with him over the past month is cook. He gets so excited to help. Especially if he knows it is a treat. I took a few pictures of him last week as he "helped" me make some brownies.

As you can see from the pictures above Nate got a hair cut. Its was long overdue. I have to admit I love his hair long. I get sad every time we cut it. He looks cute either way but I still get a little sad when I see pictures of him with his long hair.

Such a poser


Ta da! Hey good lookin.

As for the rest of the month we have been working of a few projects. Slowly but surely we are getting the house together. We decided that we wouldn't start on any house projects until after we closed. That means even though we have lived here for almost 2 months we have only started projects in the last 3 weeks.

Jake did a wonderful job painting the ceiling.

My sister Melanie came with her kids for a couple of days and she helped with the painting. I am pretty happy with how the room looks now. It feels much cleaner and brighter.

There is still a lot of work to do. We will be painting the molding and door white and we need to replace all of the ivory electrical plates. That should be done later this week. Right now the room is looking pretty bare but we have some grand plans.

I want to find some pillow covers similar to these. Probably a little more yellow.

I don't really know how things are coming together but I really like this pillow as well. We will see.
I love these chairs and I am hoping I can get a couple for a little more seating.

Jake and I are also determined to get one of these as soon as we can possibly afford it.

We will have to see what happens. There are a lot of wants but we need to make sure we can afford so for now I am pretty happy with how things are. Next we will move onto Nathan's and our room. During the summer we hope to tackle the kitchen.

We are so thankful that we were lucky enough to get this house. There is a lot of work we will need to do to make it our own but we are enjoying the adventure right now.

Your such a fat head

This....

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A good laugh. :)

Being mother of the year, and playing cars and animals with Nate. I ended up putting the container to the animals on my head. Following my wonderful example Nathan took it from my head and placed it on his. At first it stayed on the top of his head. Nathan has always had a big head. After a second I tried to take it back from him. Because of this action Nathan pulled down on it to keep me from taking it back. All of the sudden there was a small popping sound and next thing I knew I had a screaming child with a bucket stuck on his head.

I tried for several minutes to get it off. All of that time Nathan was squirming and screaming and crying. As several attempts failed I started to panic. The plastic was hard and wasn't bending much. Nathan was pulling so hard on it himself that I could see it was starting to leave marks of his forehead.

I decided to call Jake because I didn't know what else to do. I was worried I was going to have to take him to the emergency room or something. As I was on the phone with Jake (kind of freaking out at this point) Just as Jake was telling me to try and bend it or cut if off (duh!!...) I picked up Nathan and tried to calm him down. Nathan calmed down enough to let me try one more time pressing the sides and pulling it over his head. Thankfully it worked. He has a nice red mark on his head but that is all of the damage done. It was nothing that a cup of milk and some fruit snacks couldn't fix.

The only thing I regret is that I don't have a video of this happening. I am pretty sure we would win big on America's Funniest Home Videos.