Monday, May 28, 2007
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Welcome to our world, son...
Announcing Owen Nigel Douglas Seaver (05/21/07, 6lbs 12oz, Liverpool fan):
Friday, May 18, 2007
InfoMonger
So, I like to read. At the last count, the list of blogs I subscribe to in my reader numbers 60. Normally I like to share stuff with people, but I read so many stories every day that I never want to keep emailing people, though I do every now and then.
Well Google came up with this cool thing that combined Reader with Blogger into this little 'Currently Reading...' widget, so I can click on a 'share' button on every story I like, and it automatically comes up on our blog. So now, even if I'm not writing anything, you can check in any day and see what I'm reading.
Well Google came up with this cool thing that combined Reader with Blogger into this little 'Currently Reading...' widget, so I can click on a 'share' button on every story I like, and it automatically comes up on our blog. So now, even if I'm not writing anything, you can check in any day and see what I'm reading.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Process I: The Room
So, I hadn't noticed that Erika said at the end of her last post that she said I was going to do some posting that same night, when in fact, I was sitting there thinking, 'sweet, if she's posting, I can hold off posting for a few more days....'
Well, this post is about the baby room, the first of many developmental processes we will be going through as parents and humans. At first, when Erika mentioned painting the baby room, and I thought, "eeewww", imagining the hassle that comes with painting a room that already has a computer desk, a futon and a barely used ugly armchair all crammed in, no thank you! Erika stayed on my back, and we came to a compromise, which was to paste a border around the top of the room. I just looked through our 5 years of pictures, and though I enjoyed the nostalgia (you wouldn't believe all the places we've been) I didn't find one! No, I'm serious, not ONE picture of our second bedroom before its current glory...man, we must have hated the room. :-)
But seriously, I did dredge up this picture Erika took after we moved the crib in and threw out ugly. In case you're confused, we have mirrors for closet doors, so you're looking back into the room, and you can see me at the computer at the other end of the room:
But then, I guess God decided we were going to paint the room, and let us know this with a some snow melt and a hole in our roof. I'd rather He didn't do it at 2am, but there we were, bleary eyed, dragging every perishable thing we saw in reach out of there, including the futon mattress:
The bucket in the middle is 3 feet high and was half full at the end of the night. To compound things, the water traveled over our ceiling and starting spreading splotches:
So after the emergency calls at 4am, the nice Hispanic roofers and a return to a state of low humidity, I reconsidered, we should paint. We were going to have to cover up the stains at least. We decided, after a painful trip to Babys' R Us to register, that we'd do a jungle/safari theme for the baby room, and so we purchased a jungly border and chose a dark green colour for the top half of our room as well as a sky blue colour for the ceiling. Here's me priming away:
Janna, Megan and Emily all came round one Saturday afternoon to help me paint the room, we did the full two coats on the ceiling first and then the walls. Sadly, I've only got one picture of the fun we had, which doesn't show the rum and sprite either:
Erika wisely took some 'before' and 'after' pics:
Then, after letting the paint dry, we had a go with the border. We were idiots and attempted to wet and paste a border on the longest length of the room without stopping to think about it, we'd wrestled that floppy, slippery paper against the wall about half way down until we realized that we didn't get it wet enough for the rest of it! So instead of taking it off again, we simply sponged water on it, pressed and prayed. The end result looks good, we were pleased with it, but if you were to look closely, you'll see many an opportunity for little fingers to pull it away again, so I'm open to any suggestion bar duct tape:
Finally, before rearranging all of the furniture, I got a big sponge and dabbed some clouds on the ceiling. I just took this picture with a flash at night, so I may repost some nicer ones in the daylight:
What with the painting done, we put everything in its rightful place. The crib now has a cool mobile with safari animals, and also on the rug too. Next will be the myriad of nice pictures we got from people. So it's just about come together. You can see two of the quilts that had been made for the baby, and also one of the pictures (of a turtle) in the bottom right corner.
We're really pleased with the room, I never would have done any of this if it hasn't been for some water, I guess I got motivated....
ps: talking about turtles, there was one wandering about our street the other day(!) do they migrate?
Well, this post is about the baby room, the first of many developmental processes we will be going through as parents and humans. At first, when Erika mentioned painting the baby room, and I thought, "eeewww", imagining the hassle that comes with painting a room that already has a computer desk, a futon and a barely used ugly armchair all crammed in, no thank you! Erika stayed on my back, and we came to a compromise, which was to paste a border around the top of the room. I just looked through our 5 years of pictures, and though I enjoyed the nostalgia (you wouldn't believe all the places we've been) I didn't find one! No, I'm serious, not ONE picture of our second bedroom before its current glory...man, we must have hated the room. :-)
But seriously, I did dredge up this picture Erika took after we moved the crib in and threw out ugly. In case you're confused, we have mirrors for closet doors, so you're looking back into the room, and you can see me at the computer at the other end of the room:
But then, I guess God decided we were going to paint the room, and let us know this with a some snow melt and a hole in our roof. I'd rather He didn't do it at 2am, but there we were, bleary eyed, dragging every perishable thing we saw in reach out of there, including the futon mattress:
The bucket in the middle is 3 feet high and was half full at the end of the night. To compound things, the water traveled over our ceiling and starting spreading splotches:
So after the emergency calls at 4am, the nice Hispanic roofers and a return to a state of low humidity, I reconsidered, we should paint. We were going to have to cover up the stains at least. We decided, after a painful trip to Babys' R Us to register, that we'd do a jungle/safari theme for the baby room, and so we purchased a jungly border and chose a dark green colour for the top half of our room as well as a sky blue colour for the ceiling. Here's me priming away:
Janna, Megan and Emily all came round one Saturday afternoon to help me paint the room, we did the full two coats on the ceiling first and then the walls. Sadly, I've only got one picture of the fun we had, which doesn't show the rum and sprite either:
Erika wisely took some 'before' and 'after' pics:
Then, after letting the paint dry, we had a go with the border. We were idiots and attempted to wet and paste a border on the longest length of the room without stopping to think about it, we'd wrestled that floppy, slippery paper against the wall about half way down until we realized that we didn't get it wet enough for the rest of it! So instead of taking it off again, we simply sponged water on it, pressed and prayed. The end result looks good, we were pleased with it, but if you were to look closely, you'll see many an opportunity for little fingers to pull it away again, so I'm open to any suggestion bar duct tape:
Finally, before rearranging all of the furniture, I got a big sponge and dabbed some clouds on the ceiling. I just took this picture with a flash at night, so I may repost some nicer ones in the daylight:
What with the painting done, we put everything in its rightful place. The crib now has a cool mobile with safari animals, and also on the rug too. Next will be the myriad of nice pictures we got from people. So it's just about come together. You can see two of the quilts that had been made for the baby, and also one of the pictures (of a turtle) in the bottom right corner.
We're really pleased with the room, I never would have done any of this if it hasn't been for some water, I guess I got motivated....
ps: talking about turtles, there was one wandering about our street the other day(!) do they migrate?
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Thumper
Well it has been about 9 months since I have added anything to our blog. As you can see from the picture below, a lot of things have been changing in my life and body! I am currently 37 weeks pregnant and awaiting "Thumper". We named him/her Thumper because I have been amazed at how much a baby can kick you from the inside. There have been so many interesting things that have happened with this miracle. I have experienced another human being having hiccups and it shifting so fast that it almost makes you pee instantly.
We have the babies room almost finished thanks to all our housegroup friends who came over to paint and to all of Sam's hard work. We have a blue ceiling and sage walls with a jungle border. Sam is still finishing up the clouds on the ceiling. All our friends and family have bought us amazing gifts for Thumper so the room is the best room in the house.
I have five more days of work before I go on maternity leave. I am looking forward to the rest and time off. I will then just have to finish up my graduate class that starts the 14th of May! I wanted to finish this class before the baby comes so I have one less class after it arrives. Once/If I finish that class I will have 2 more classes before I am complete with a Masters in Reading. Well I think that Sam is going to be adding more to the blog today so I will leave it to the master but I wanted to get out a little hello before our WHOLE life changed!
Love Erika
Stay tuned for future pictures of the upcoming Baby Seaver
We have the babies room almost finished thanks to all our housegroup friends who came over to paint and to all of Sam's hard work. We have a blue ceiling and sage walls with a jungle border. Sam is still finishing up the clouds on the ceiling. All our friends and family have bought us amazing gifts for Thumper so the room is the best room in the house.
I have five more days of work before I go on maternity leave. I am looking forward to the rest and time off. I will then just have to finish up my graduate class that starts the 14th of May! I wanted to finish this class before the baby comes so I have one less class after it arrives. Once/If I finish that class I will have 2 more classes before I am complete with a Masters in Reading. Well I think that Sam is going to be adding more to the blog today so I will leave it to the master but I wanted to get out a little hello before our WHOLE life changed!
Love Erika
Stay tuned for future pictures of the upcoming Baby Seaver
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