Day one: Baby step one from Flylady.com

So honestly, I find it very difficult to keep up on my house cleaning. i will clean all day for a day and then things come up and three days go by and the house is a disaster again. So I have decided to embark on the flylady.com baby steps. We shall see how it goes. It will be a challenge with my currently VERY clingy child. I am hoping this is becuase of him not feeling well, not because this is a stage he's going through. I love him very much. He doesn't want to be held, but if there is so much as a child gate separating us... he freaks out. Hm... I am still hopeful this is because he's had a double ear infection... though I have been told this is a very normal thing for his age.

Anyway.. baby step one - Shine your sink. Done. We shall see.

Birthday gifts, watch out kitty tails!!

So, Mac had a great first birthday party at Grammy and Papa Rutila's house with all his aunts auncles, second cousins, and great aunts and uncles, oh! and a great grandpa too boot. He has another party coming up for the Peacock side down in Myrtle Beach - so excited for the vacation BTW.

Me thinks that there might need to be a helmet purchased in the future... most likely with lots and lots of bandaids. I don't mind. I want my little boy to be a boy, and then a man. Plus if he falls (not that I want him to) its just another excuse to kiss on him :-).

PS - anyone know how to turn the video? grr...

Playing Peek a Boo

Mac learning to walk!

So it might be crooked, don't know how exactly to right it ... but you get the gist! Watch out mommie and all ER doctors (anticipating stitches in our future...)

*SIGH*

So... I pick up each night and this happened within the first half an hour Mac was awake. I've been hoarding paper because we are moving in a couple weeks (AGH!) and I kinda just sat and watching him get into one of the paper bag and though normally I would have stopped him, I decided not to this time. He had a ball (can't you tell). Then he proceeded to tear all his books off the book shelf. He doesn't want to read any of them *sigh* but likes to watch them fall and throw them *sigh*.

Such a boy...

The House...

Street View (from the summer, not today)

Right hand property line

Front door with garage door on left...

 

Left hand side of the house

View of front door from "keeping" / greeting room

View of "keeping room" from door way to "office"

doorway from keeping room to the office

Keeping room (and Mac's head...)

From kitchen into keeping room

From keeping room into kichten and dining room

Kitchen view- small and needs work, but do-able

Bonus room (great room/ family room)

Bonus room with pass through from kitchen

laundry room (there aren't many pictures of this room because of the "art" on the walls... needless to say not in good taste...)

Built in - with waist high folding table and more cabinets to teh left... but also some "art"

Door to the outside (room can also function as mudroom) and windows.. "tame" wall art..

From "desk" room to great/bonus room (kitchen on right and dining room on left)

Gas fire place

From desk room to "keeping" room

From bonus/great room to desk room

Hallway - full bath first door on left, master bed/bath second on left

, 3rd bedroom first door on right, Mac's room second door on right

Master bath

From master into bath

from bath towards door of master

Garage

Reason my pictures are stinky - someone wanted to help mama

Tag- You're it!

The video is dark at first... but... we play chase at least 1 time a day... usually much more!

Gramma's House!

We visited Gramma's house this weekend!

Before leaving Mac decided to try and trap a Kitty Kat... Nimrod would like to establish for the record that he might not be swift, but he wasn't born yesterday.

 Then.... he met the DOGGIES! 

 Then, Aunt Cindy and Mark brought a present. I think he assumed the bag and then paper were his present... 

Uh oh... gramma needs to Malachi proof...

Then, Mac helped Gramma wash the dishes... 

Time for a nap...