OWWWWW!!!!

Keira and her pal Sarah hanging out together.

Doesn't it look like Sarah is trying to smack Keira in the head????

Actually she was patting her head- it was cute and Keira didn't seem to mind at all.:o)

The video

Here is the Video of Keira whining. Since I couldn't get the computer to upload it to blogger I uploaded it to youtube. In this video she is telling me that she has had enough of being in the exersaucer and she does not appreciate the fact that I put her in it for 2 min.

Just another monday...

Mike informed me at lunch that I either don't love him or don't think he did a good job on the siding since I had failed to show a picture of the completed siding. I thought that the post on Saturday showing him putting up the second to last piece of siding was good enough for people to get the general picture of what it looked like- apparently not. So here are the pictures of the COMPLETED siding and yes Mike you did a good job. :o)
I tried to upload a funny video of Keira but alas our crappy Internet has failed us again and the upload won't work... so instead of a funny video of Keira you get to see pictures of the side of our house- I am sure you will find it just as interesting as the video of Keira.

off with the old and on with the new

Here is the house without the old siding. Mike tore it all off this am.

Mike installing the new siding......

Keira and I walking our errands. Its great to live in the city. We walked to Hannafords, Rite Aid, and Wal-Mart.

Mike putting up the last few pieces of siding on this wall.

BRRRRR!!

Keira and her pal Sarah all bundled up so us mama's could get out and go for a walk today.

Making progress??

This girl is not making any progress in the teeth department!! Here she is this am all doped up on Infant Tylenol and Baby Ora -gel. She woke up this am with bright red cheeks and she keeps clawing her face and whining. Poor baby. :o(

Mike is making progress in the porch.... its mostly insulated....


And he is working on putting in the recessed lighting in the ceiling. He comes home from work and works like a madman till bedtime... I keep telling him he should take a break!!

Fast food anyone???

This Taco Bell is just getting finished being built- Right around the corner from our house.We are now within walking distance of Dairy Queen, Burger King, McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Wendy's, D'Angelo's, Dunkin Donuts, Clam King, Applebees, Amato's, Luis's and Subway. Its comforting to know that in the event that I decide to stop cooking and eat fast food that we will never starve. It really is to bad we don't like fast food - it would be so convenient.
Mike- "Woman- whats for dinner tonight?"
Me- Whatever you heart desires.. take a walk and get the fast food- artery clogging delicacy of your choosing"

Election day!!

Today is election day. We went to vote for town Mayor, selectmen, alderman (not really sure what any of those mean really except Mayor) Anyways- Being that this is our first election in Manchester we went to vote at Parker-Varney school. Only we couldn't find Parker- Varney school. We had assumed incorrectly that the school was off of Varney St- not correct. After 25 min of driving all over Manchester and taking up all of Mike's lunch break I told Mike to stop by Walgreens and I would run in and ask someone because we all know men don't ask for directions. Thankfully someone was able to help us and we went and did our civic duty by voting. :o)

Yes I brought my camera... in case you hadn't noticed I am a little addicted to taking photo's

Keira and dada coming out of the booth...

Just a cute pic from today.. :o)

hmm I wonder what grass tastes like??

A few pics from our walk yesterday.

While I was putting the stroller away I laid her on the grass. She kept letting it brush against her mouth and then she opened her mouth and tried to eat it. I didn't get a pic of her with the grass in her mouth as I immediately pulled the grass out since we did fertilize our lawn this year....

its good to have electricity....

Here is Ty Pennington- I mean Mike installing the electrical boxes in the former porch/new kitchen area....

And here is Keira- watching dada do the electrical and spitting up and drooling all over the floor as usual.... This is actually the first time she has "sat up" by herself... No she can't really sit alone - as you can see she is using her arms for support but its a step in the right direction. No no we won't be keeping that lovely orange carpet that Keira is drooling and spitting up all over.

The start of something good (and pretty)......

Thanks to Mike Hippert , Mike was able to frame and install our 3 new windows in one day!!! As you can see the windows look awesome. I have to say that I am super excited about the grill work in the windows. I LOVE windows with grill work- and as none of the windows in our house have it I always said to Mike when we start replacing windows they have to have the grill work in them. So now hopefully we can get ALL new windows (to match of course).. Mike tells me it will be a few years before we can afford that- but I can't help but dream about the day when I have all new windows and they ALL have grill work in them. :o)

Keira's new trick...

Keira learned how to roll from her BELLY to her back wayyyy back when she was 2.5 months old. She appears to have forgotten that she knows how to do this. This week she figured out how to roll from her BACK to her belly. She loves doing it and will do it over and over again. However- She does NOT enjoy being on her belly and whines and crys until she is back on her back. But since she apparently forgets how to roll back... We have to flip her back over everytime she rolls. Its rather amusing.

My new talent of fixing computers....

HAHA.. Well I fixed the laptop- at least for the moment. Don't ask me how- I couldn't tell you. I pushed some buttons and Viola!! it connected to the network. Even Mike was impressed. I told him I could do this job of being a Desktop Specialist and Server administrator any day.
Anyways here are some pics of the destroyed porch.
Tanya

Uh no- Not again.

This is not an excuse.. trust me- but we are having Internet issues AGAIN. Mike's computer is dead dead and Mike doesn't have time to fix it at the moment since he is busy tearing apart our kitchen/ back porch. We have decided to expand the kitchen an extra few feet by turning the back porch into kitchen space. However its not insulated and doesn't have double pane windows. Therefore need all new windows in the porch and new dry wall since Mike had to tear off the drywall so that he can put new insulation in the walls.
But my point is our laptop is also not working at all- It won't even turn on so I can't upload any pics. I am only able to post this by getting of Mike's work laptop. I am sure there is a way to upload pics on this laptop but I don't know how to do it otherwise I would. So If we can get the computers working again I will post some pics of the demolished and torn down to the studs back porch.

Some pics from today.