4 Miles

 This morning, men came and started getting rid of the bricks on the outside and the drywall on the inside. (You can click on any of the pictures to see them larger, if you so desire.) 

There is the hole in the wall! (This is what it looked like about the time I wrote the other post.)

End of Day 1. Tomorrow they need to drywall around the door (the door is not as wide as the windows were), put trim in, and put wood around on the outside.  Then we will be painting in the next week or so.  The next step will be to save up our pennies to put in a deck or patio. (Hopfully before the end of summer!)

Happy Birthday to James' Grandpa Grover and to my friend Erin Langly.  Erin, the card is in the mail–really!

Whoops, kind of not been updating here, haven’t I?  After our exciting weekend of birthday parties and time at my parents, we had several days of sleep issues. I know what caused them. We had several days of late naps and several more days of late bedtimes (which caused longer naps and later bedtimes again. Then we tried waking him up from a long nap, and he was even worse!). This led to much whininess on Will’s part. Alex was pretty laid back about it all—even with his ear infection (yes, that was discovered on Thursday, and we are now treating it).  That’s been about it. After having several weeks of warm, sunny days (a few days warm enough to pull out the shorts!) we are back to the normal weather for this time of year…or at least for what we should have had in early April. Usually in April we have cool, rainy days…the days were it is gloomy and it just rains on and off all day. This year our April rain mostly came from thunderstorms. The last few days have made up for that.  It’s been cruel to Will. He got used to playing outside everyday, and now we’re having to tell him he can’t because it’s raining. On top of it, he got a bike on Friday (from a great friend who’s son has out grown his) and he keeps wanting to ride his bike. We resorted to putting the car in the driveway and letting him ride in the garage yesterday.  He came in telling me he and Rusty (his stuffed dog) were going to school. Later he told me they were coming home from school and Rusty need to take a nap.   

Today has been more of an exciting day. Today we put a hole in our wall.  A big hole. We are taking out the double windows in our dining room and putting in patio doors, so we won’t have to go through the garage to go outside. “We”…Um, I mean the guys we hired (“WE” as in James and I, are just watching).  So far, so good.  I’ll put up some pictures later.  Will has loved watching “The Guys” (despite the loud noise at times that scares him), and the cat has been freaking out. And we are all bundled up, since it is in the 60s outside, and there is a giant hole in our wall.