What are Mary, Justin, Grey and Hazel up to?: May 2013

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Our child is a genius

Grey is learning his letters. He started by only recognizing p (for papa), m (for mama), and g (for gg). Now he can recognize almost all of them! He has now started matching letters to their outlines. He started with an app that does it, and he really surprised us tonight with this matching game Denise gave us from her days as a kinder teacher. He was so proud of himself when he would match one correctly!

Pulling out the letters.

He can do a lot more but his 10 second attention span kind of limited him :)

So proud of himself!

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Monday, May 27, 2013

Camping fun!

Burt Lake State Park. Cold but fun!

The Cross in the Woods (the Curls would have liked this)

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Camping preview

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Sunday, May 12, 2013

We put an offer on a house!

We put an offer on a house!! Woohoo! We weren't planning on things happening so quickly, but this foreclosure came on the market and we had to act quickly to get it. We are very excited!

Details:
4 beds, 2 baths, 2000 sq ft. Two blocks away from Denise's on Liberty street. Six-seven blocks from the lake and a public beach. We got it for $100,000 less than it was for sale five years ago! Crazy! We are very excited and can't wait for work to begin on the house. As you will see in the pics, it needs a lot of cosmetic updates. The only major thing wrong was that the water heater needs to be replaced, besides that, everything is pretty much ready to go! We went this weekend to pick out our new kitchen... so exciting! We will keep you updated on next steps.

Master bedroom

Master bedroom view #2 (one of two walk-in closets)

Upstairs hallway

Second bedroom upstairs (with walk-in closet)

Third bedroom upstairs looking into the upstairs bathroom. Weird that the bathroom is off a bedroom that is not the master... we will need to fix that in time. For now, it is fine.

View from one corner of the living room, looking towards the left. Nice green carpet and textured yellow wallpaper.

View from the same corner, looking towards the right. This looks into the dining room and the kitchen is behind that striped wall (we are tearing down that wall and making a breakfast bar)

Bay window (where all the light is coming from in the dining room pic above)

Fourth bedroom which is really more of an office since the patio slider doors are off of this room. The second bathroom and second set of stairs is just to the right of the slider.

Nice kitchen with view of carpeted bathroom #2 (sarcasm). This is where most of our money is going. We will be gutting the kitchen, closing off this entrance to the bathroom since there is another entrance from bedroom #4. We are planning on putting the stove where that opening is right now. As I said before, directly behind the person taking this picture is a wall that we are knocking down and putting a breakfast bar/peninsula in it's place. Hopefully that will open up this dark room!

We are also redoing bathroom #2 with new tile, paint, toilet and vanity (the tub is actually in decent shape).

"Nice eyes"

Sometimes when Justin gets ready in the morning, he has to plug Grey into choo choo to be able to take his shower. The other morning, Justin came out if the shower to find Grey pretending to put in makeup with my makeup brushes. He was saying, "nice eyes mama."

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Friday, May 10, 2013

Walks

Gg likes to "walk" around the block using his "bike" (called a plasma car). It takes about 20 minutes because he has to stop at every ant hill (there are lots!) and watch the ants go in and out if the hole. He says things like: ant! Home! Eat! And work!