Blue or Brown

Wow, I am having trouble making even the smallest decisions here. We are attempting to get our kitchen put back together after the new paint job, and these window treatments are hard for me.

Our color pallette in the kitchen is not ideal, but we seem to have the green from the counters, the brown from the floors and the cabinets, white trim, and then our light table (which we don't really love but just happen to have). Some might even add the silver from the stainless steel and fixtures/knobs. We're thinking of either going navy for the other color for the other color or a chocolate brown.

Navy:
seems to highlight the blue walls more
pros - the table will sort of work still; we have blue dishes/accent stuff already
cons - will the room be too blue?

Brown:
seems to leave the green counters as the dominant "color" of the room
pros - a more subtle look, i get to buy new pic frames and a new clock
cons - I don't think the light table works; so we'd likely spray paint it (it was a $150 IKEA table and as temporary of a purchase as it was, it's lasted 7 years and we don't mind if we get rid of it eventually).

I know it's hard to tell from these pictures, do you have any oppinions?

Weird doors are gone!

I need to get some after pictures of the office; though it's not all-together yet because we've already begun removing the weird doors in the boys room. An annoying sheet-rock issue which needs multiple layers of spackle has set us back a little. But it will get done. In the meantime, the boys room in slight disorder; but they are surviving.

Have you ever seen anything so odd? Those doors go to one of the 3 bedrooms upstairs... why?

Mario thought it was weird that I was taking so many pictures of this project.


Just before I took this one he said, "We are so getting a nail gun"

MJ has been working on building a fence out of the railing that used to be behind the doors.

Good thing we have a pretty tall ladder.


Our family is doing pretty well. I'm realizing that this baby may be arriving soon as I will be 37 weeks on Monday. I was just about 40 weeks with both MJ and Joey, so I think I still have more time, still, spending a bit of time nesting for her is probably a good idea.

Joey is talking more, and he has a very adorable voice. I'm a bit sad that "Mommy" sounds more like "Bobby", especially since not only does he point out trucks, but he can even give them different appropriate names such as dump truck, backhoe, bulldozer. I think his most favorite thing to point out in the car is McDonald's. It was hard to tell what was getting him so excited at first, but after passing our 5th McD's and here him squeal with excitement, I put 2 and 2 together. I didn't think we went there that often, but my guess is he remembers the yummy chocolate shakes that our family will occasionally share. He still loves cars and does most things holding on to one or two. He's great at playing with and entertaining MJ. It's really fun watching him run over to MJ and tackle him or give him a big hug, just because he feels like it.

MJ seems to be growing so quickly. It's fun to see how his mind words, but also a little challenging as he really tries to negotiate using some pretty intelligent logic. He LOVES Mario's leafblower and will talk about how he should be able to use it, or pretend use it. On particularly bad days, I've had to make a rule that MJ is not allowed to even mention daddy's leaf blower or he will have a consequence (after dozens of attempts to have me get it for him). Thankfully, his intellectual skills understood how serious I was so that he wouldn't talk about the leaf blower all day. Now, he wakes up in the morning but subtly asks if he can talk about the leaf blower. He really enjoys all of daddy's tools and will sit and read the Ryobi manuals. He calls them his magazines and really loves them.

He is also a pretty good engineer. I think he and Patrick would get along well with their building skills. I was particularly proud of this work machine he created on his own. It's been a couple of weeks since the guys came to remove our trees with their mulcher and dump truck, but MJ made one on his own. It even comes apart just like the mulcher/dump truck they had.


I wish I had a better angle of the truck they used.