Remodeling Round Up...Sorta

Yeehaw y'all, it's time for Remodeling Guy's Remodeling Round Up!
I cannot take any credit for what you are about to see.

My beloved hubby has been the busy beaver on this project.

He has turned it from ugly, unfunctional, wasted space into....
A room.


More specifically, it will be our family/schoolroom.

He is amazing! (Uh..no I don't have him sleeping out there. We just moved the spare bed from the music room. Where it was serving as a low couch. Oh yes, we are creative. It will probably serve the same purpose in its new home.)

And he is driven. He has gotten this far in a little over a month. He has done everything except some of the electrical and some of the drywall hanging. Why suffer (possibly maim yourself or blow up your house) when you have a neighbor who is a professional electrician? Why torture yourself (with a pitiful drill) when you have friends who hang drywall for a living (and who brought their totally awesome tools of the trade)?

No, we haven't started painting yet. That will be my contribution. This green is just leftovers from a fit of insanity I had after looking at the dirty, disgusting garage wall that used to be there.

My man knows how to bust out a room! I can't wait for the finished result. But alas, I will have to show that off at a later time because I can't make him work any faster.
What, did you think I was a slave driver?
Git along little doggie.. (how would you spell that anyway?)

WFMW: Not Brushing My Kids Teeth

Okay, before you call child services on me, hear me out!

How many of you ladies like to sit there and watch your children like a hawk while they brush? I thought as much. None of us like to do it and it hardly yields satisfying results..at least in my household it doesn't. Often I end up brushing the child's teeth myself. Which, the whole idea is to encourage good hygiene and taking care of one's body...not having Mom do it all the time.

However, neither do I want my children's teeth rotting out of their heads. What is a mother to do?

Enlist the help of a sibling! I have my sons brush the sides of each other's teeth to get those hard to reach areas. They have fun and keep their teeth sparkling. There is also the competition factor about whose teeth are actually cleaner...more motivating than a trip to the dentist! :)

Not brushing my kids' teeth works for me!

Found In Our Front Yard...

Look at this fellow..isn't his coloring spectacular?

Here's another show stopper!

And look what I managed to capture...a humming bird! We actually have a pair that visit our tree now. I imagine that a nest is nearby.

Just a few of our feathered friends that visited today.

What Is It...Revealed!

In a fit of boredom late one night this weekend, I decided to create something.
My son said it was outerspace.
It was a happy accident.
It took three redos of the G to get to this.

And then I splopped paint...aaaaaaaaaaggggghhhhhh.

Which I then decided looked pretty cool and so I did it some more.

Thinking outside of the box.
Free paint and canvas.
Equals one priceless work of art.

Unique and a bit funky. Just like me!

What Is It?

UFO?

Toothpaste splatters?

Toddler art?

Can you guess?

I'll give you the full reveal tomorrow!

Camera Sneaks

All photos in this post were taken by my boys....sigh...without my permission. Do you think they need a play camera?

Learning About Nothing

We read this book last week for math.
Surprisingly enough, it was my Mr. Independent who grasped the concept of zero the best. This is a really fun book and obviously the littlest one enjoyed it too!

Zero Is Not Nothing by Mindel & Harry Sitomer