It's hard to believe but the girls' second birthday is almost here. I've had their party planned for months already--is that weird? But even though the big day is a month and a half away the "terrible twos" are in full swing around here. My sweet angel Olivia, where, oh WHERE, did you go? Seriously, she throws fits left and right these days. When we finally take her off the potty 15 minutes (it seems) after she's done using it, when we get her down from the table looong after mealtime is over, when I don't let her get out every last piece of clothing to try on, etc. It's all really annoying, but what I really miss is being able to just put her in her crib at naptime and have her go right to sleep. Heck, sometimes she'd practically ask to go down for her nap, grabbing her doggie, walking to her crib saying "nap". Now when I put her in there she stands right up and starts screaming and crying. But only for a few minutes and then she goes to sleep. Sigh. I hope it's just a phase that will be over soon.
It's time for this week's Show Us Your Life, brought to you by Kelly's Korner , and this week it's dining rooms. We have a very open floorplan, so when you walk in our front door the dining room is to the right and the living room to the left, with the fireplace straight ahead. It's basically all one big room. I bought the table and sideboard at Dania when I bought my first condo back in 2002. It looked great in that condo, but for this house I wish I had black dining room furniture. The table and sideboard are the same color as the trim, and then with the white walls (although we finally got one wall painted) it's just so blah. And like most other rooms in the house, we have yet to hang curtains (not that we're going to hang them in every room, but we have yet to hang any). Looking in from the kitchen. Need curtains! Looking in from the living room. Notice the plastic protector underneath, for when the kids throw their sp...
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