Getting Sorted

We live in a relatively small house. Our house does have 3 bedrooms but they are by no means very large bedrooms. On top of that it doesn't really have much storage. And add to that my love of craft and Nick's love of playing computer games and you had our bedroom which was a complete dumping ground. Everything that couldn't fit anywhere else was in our bedroom. Plus Nick's computer as the games that he plays often have very scary characters in them that aren't really suitable for little eyes. Well they would have given me nightmares as a kid anyway. And then there was all my craft things. Below is the result of our trip to Ikea over the holidays. We now have our bedroom back! Nick has his corner and I have all my stuff organised and put away neatly. Best of all my sewing machine can stay out which means that hopefully I will get to do more crafts. On a side note I have been borrowing a friend's sewing machine for about 6 months and have finally decided to buy one myself. Does anyone have any recommendations or suggestions? We also swapped our bed which was a queen bed for the spare bed which is a double bed. Its amazing the difference this made in space! We have a no kids in our bed rule and now we really can't break it as there is just no room.

This is Kaisha's room. We got a bit more storage for her dolls, accessories and barbies and its looking really great. Best of all everything has a place.
Now we just have to get the baby's room sorted. We have unfortunately had to give up our guest room for the time being. Our couch folds out into a bed and we have lots of tents we can always put up on the lawn. We may put a single bed into the baby's room but will see how everything fits.

Catch Up

Its been a busy weekend here.
On Monday I stayed home with Kaisha so on Thursday I went into work for a couple of hours. With Kaisha. As she is still coughing I didn't like to ask anyone to have her as all my babysitters have kids themselves. I just needed to whip up a lip balm so took a laptop, some dvd's and colouring in things. There is a desk in the lab with equipment on it out of the way of everyone so I made a cubby for her under the desk and set the laptop up on the a box. She was so good. It was all so different and people were coming and going and she was happy as. Towards the end of the 2 hours she started to pester a little so I finished up then. I needed to then distribute the lip balm to people before I left so we walked about dishing out lip balms to everyone. As I was going past the owners door he asked for a meeting !!!(I had ok'd bringing Kaisha in with him first). I went "umm I have Kaisha with me" and he goes "just bring her too". So I ended up sitting in the board room with both owners and the sales manager with Kaisha on my knee reporting on my latest projects. Was very surrel and went something like this. "I'm up to version 13 for this project and am quite happy with this one although it still needs tweaking as the pH isn't quite right yet, yes Kaisha you can have an orange when we are finished, and as I was saying the pH has to be lower for it to be preserved effectively". They really didn't seem to mind the interruptions tho so its good to know that in a pinch I can take Kaisha into work.
Friday we had mothers group here and William one of the little boys was turning 2 so we had a little party.

Photo time! - William, Joshua, Beau, Kaisha, Delta & Sienna. Jasmin is hidden by Delta's hat.

Cake time - I asked the kids to sit in the kitchen and eat their cake and they all lined up like this.

Saturday we had a lovely lazy day, I did some reading, some gardening and some playing with Kaisha. I also reorganised my kitchen cupboards which will have to count as my craft project this week as I haven't gotten around to anything else. Yes my sewing machine is still at the shop. I really must ring them up again. I am knitting Kaisha a scarf at the moment but I can only do it when she is asleep as she likes to "help" me knit it. This consists of her getting a knitting needle and poking it thru the knitting, not so helpful at all really so I only do it when she is sleeping. Anyway, back to my kitchen. The reason for the reorganise was another tupperware party I attended two weeks ago. Just a little bit more and I will be sorted "wink".


Isn't it beautiful! I keep leaving my cupboard doors open on purpose so I can stare at it.

Kaisha

Is it any wonder she falls out of bed all the time? I don't think I have ever gone in to Kaisha's room once she is asleep and found her properly positioned.

Pizza for lunch.



Kaisha's new wall stickers. Actually she got them for her birthday (thank you Beth)and its taken me this long to get them up. Which is completely ridiculous considering how easy they were to put up!


I'm attempting toilet training at the moment. So far its not going bad or good. Kaisha has awesome control and just hangs on all morning until I put her nappy on for her sleep. Then she hangs on all afternoon and evening til I put her night nappy on. In the past 3 days she has had 1 accident a day and no successes. She is quite happy to sit on the toilet but just doesn't get how to let go. Anyway since its quite easy we will continue and hopefully she will get it eventually.