Paint

Yes.

I know that "Paint" is not a very exciting title for a post when "Introducing Baby..." is what many of you are hoping for, but paint is the best I've got at the moment!

Since there's no baby yet, and since my mom is up here, she, Matt, and Owen have been out painting Barb's rooms! On Monday they did the priming...

...and Tuesday morning put on the first coats of final color paint in both the front sitting room, the hall closet, and the bedroom!

This photo doesn't do the color justice - it looks more mustardy here than it really is - in real life it's more golden. Really love this color - we're using it a bit in the stair well and the front living room, too.

The bedroom color is more tame, and is slightly more to the green side than we had anticipated, but I still like it very much. We will use this color here, in the basement, and on the ceilings on the main level. The peek at the front room on the right hand side of this picture does a better job of capturing what it looks like in real life...at least on my computer monitor!

Today they were able to second coat all three of these spaces, and Matt found the can of paint leftover from when we redid our main bathroom three years ago that we will use in the bathroom up here. If Baby doesn't come tonight, that's on Mom's agenda tomorrow.

Matt's still juggling plenty of work items this week on all fronts: he's got small projects for both of the firms he contracts with as well as a final set of drawings for a large remodel/addition for one of our own clients that's due this week. This limits the amount of time that he can spend out in the addition, but he's managing to get quite a bit done. But not tonight. Tonight he's sleeping in the living room because we found out this afternoon that he and Rinnah are victims #4 and 5 of the strep that's been working its way through our house! I think we've had every possible combination of symptoms that you can have with strep. Leah had a crazy sore throat and couldn't eat or drink anything (but no fever). I had no fever, and only a very mild sore throat, but had had it for a while and it wasn't going away, and on the drive home from finding out she had it, realized that I was aware of every swallow, which isn't a good sign. Yep. Strep. Krassi was next - no fever, no sign of sore throat (as demonstrated by a healthy appetite), but tiny, tiny red dots on his cheeks, then his arms, then his back - scarlet fever (with no fever? who knows. But that's what they call it.)

Matt was pretty miserable last night with an increasing sore throat, so we sent him AND Rinnah in today (she had a mild fever, has been rather cranky, and when asked if her throat hurt, said, no, but her tummy did *ding ding ding - sore tummy - strep symptom!*)

What a crazy time to have a Baby. ;)

So that's where we're at, and hopefully the next post will have news of someone new! (Or else photos of a painted bathroom. Who knows?) ;)