They just have to put one more coat of clear polyurethane on the floor. The dark spot in the corner is where it was white before. We’ll be putting curtains up, the rug in, and assembling her bed this weekend. Then I’ll just have to hang her alphabet wall and artwork.

Only thing left for the contractors is finishing the floors! Then we’ll move Helen Jeanette’s bed and rug in this weekend.

Looks like we just need one more coat!

We have counted up Helen Jeanette’s words and totaled 26 English words and 4 Spanish. She can parrot quite a few words other then this but these are the ones she pulls out regularly without prompting.

Spanish
Si
Boka (mouth)
Agua (she says agu)
Roja (red)

English
Mama
Dada
Ball
Baby
Doll
No
Blueberry (blue baba)
Banana (baba)
Uh oh
Tickle tickle
Car
Kick
Stick (sticker)
Book
Eye
Nose
Hair
Ear
Milk
Keys
Juice
Shoes
Pa (opa)
Ma (Oma)
Hi
Cheese

The room has had one coat of primer.

Dutch doors!

I went digging through the blog for before pictures of this room, I’m sure I can find better ones but from this you can tell that it used to be a kitchen.

It’s so fun to come home everyday to more progress, I had forgotten the excitement of having professionals work on your house. DIY comes with a lot of pride at the end of the job but it’s oh so much slower.

Contractors started yesterday and we now have walls! Looking forward to wrapping up any construction projects for awhile!

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Insulation is up!

For several months we’ve been working on transforming the upstairs back kitchen into a bedroom for Helen Jeanette, we now find ourselves with our backs against a wall and Chris’s dad Keith is in town to help us push towards the end. The plan is for the guys to finish installing insulation and then hire someone to put the drywall and trim back and paint. We estimate we’re through 8.5 of 12 work items and it’s taken us quite a while to get here, but Chris and Keith have been working really hard to complete the do-it-ourselves steps up so we can hand the baton to the pros that will run the anchor leg.