Life rolls along

Nothing horribly new or exciting to share here today, just some random thoughts/happenings.

Emma and Timmy each were told that they need some outside/play shoes so that they are not getting all their shoes dirty. Timmy's are some velcro ones that he can put on by himself ... we're very happy about that. He does a really good job, and only puts them on the wrong feet one out of every three times!

One of the kids favorite things to do is to go "wooding". In fact, Timmy calls his play shoes his woods shoes. Apparently wooding is the act of exploring your way through the forest around our house. This activity is made even more fun if you bring Albert with and have to try to deal with keeping him from wrapping his leash around every tree in sight (and there are a lot of those).

Emma finished her swim lesson session last night (Timmy finishes today). She passed onto the next class. She's doing very well, and getting braver and braver about getting her face wet.

Emma's room is getting closer and closer to done -- phase 1. The bed itself is pretty much finished We put up the curtains and last bit of trim last night as well as some finishing touches. The mis-measured bookshelves/Barbie mansion are in place. The next step is that I'll build the platform for the elevated play area and Cyndie will do some finishing touches. We also need to cut the mirror that we have for there in half so that we can get it up the stairs.