Kitchen Renovation

We finally got started on the kitchen floors! It is the last place on our main floor that we are putting 3/4 inch maple down. N and I went to Noni and Papa's house overnight so D could pull up the tile.

This tile is no joke! It takes forever to pull up because it is on top of the sub floor rather than backer board. UGH!! Now we have to replace half of the sub floors because they were weakened by the thinset. Thus, the small, soon to be large hole in our sub floor which N is pretty convinced she helped make.

 

Hopefully wood will start to go in tomorrow. Fingers crossed! There is still a lot to do in the kitchen, but the floors are the largest project. Here is what is to come in our kitchen:

• hardware
• paint the cabinets
• back splash
• new faucet
• open shelves to the left of the sink
• paint

A ride for N

We bought this cart for Christmas thinking that N would use it to tote small toys around the house. We were wrong. N and J decided it was better suited for carting small children.

Trim Please

D put trim up this week! Hooray for us! Here at the Tallerico home we work hard on projects for a few months, and then don't work so hard for a few months. We are happily spending the time while N naps to instal trim, make frames (yippee for our router), and repaint N's dresser. Painting N's dresser has taught me two things. 1) we are going to buy a paint sprayer and 2) don't repaint any furniture until said paint sprayer is purchased. It takes way to long with a brush and foam roller. We will post pictures of the frames and dresser soon.

Naomi loves to help us do any project. Weather we are cleaning our house, brushing our teeth, putting on our shoes, or installing trim, she likes to be involved. She decided to pitch in and help D secure the baseboards yesterday.

 

Sledding.......finally!

It finally snowed enough to go sledding. During N's nap I went and bought a sled and put it on the kitchen table. When she got up from her nap she looked at the sled, looked at me, and said "blue boat." So with blue boat in tow we went across the street to the park to go sledding. She absolutely loved it!

waiting to go down the hill

so much fun!

Daddy's turn

going back up the hill