Max was in the tub and was about to get out after he was done washing. We have a set of stackable buckets as toys, and he put a smaller blue one over his privates. He announced with glee, “So my penis can breathe in outer space!!!!”
Talkie Talk
Ok – this is definitely a girl learning to talk! I thought Lucy might fall into the ‘my older sibling talks enough for me’ syndrome but oh no! she is ready to speak for herself. 🙂 Here’s some recent Lucy-isms:
Eggie (Egg)
Hot
Botty (her bottom)
Off! (a hat or shirt or zippered jacket)
Inky, Kinky, Dinky (Binky/Pacifier)
Pusssh (the buttons on her radio)
Eeere de go? (where’d he go? usually her brother; said with hands outstretched)
Aaire eee is! (there he is!)
Elmo (a new love)
Sic (music)
Cohn (corn)
Atag (hot dog)
How Cold is My House
This week has been relatively mild, but last week was very cold. So cold in fact that one morning, Max opened the refrigerator and was confused that it was ‘not too cold in the refrigerator’. Brrrrr…
22 January 2006 : 1 Garage Door
This weekends work focused on putting in the 2 openings for our new doors in the south wall of the garage. We got all the stucco removed and one of the doors ‘roughed in’.
While
Max and I were working on the stucco and the tar paper, my dad was moving a couple
of pre-existing studs so that we could save an electrical outlet. 
After
the remaining studs were removed, header was put in and voila! a garage door opening. 
15 Jan 2006 : Saturday
The forecast for Saturday was for showers all day. We didn’t know if we would be able to get much work done.
It rained during the night but stopped in the early morning. It was not raining after breakfast when I went out and began to take down the tarps I had covering the cement (I didn’t want the water running off the roof to make a line in the newly poured driveway). It sprinkled a little bit, but not too bad. We decided to see how the strong wall would fit on the new stem wall. When we carried out the strong wall we realized we had a big problem.
While there is plenty of room for the strong wall to fit under the existing roof (since
the stem wall had been lowered [see previous post]), The roof over hang prevented
us from lifting the strong wall over the bolts in the stem wall. There was no way
we could get it installed. We scrambled for ideas. The one that we sort of settled
on was that we would have to jack up the corner of the garage roof about 5 inches
to clear the bolts. Not a good option, but the best that we had. Since this would
be an amazing hassle, we tossed around other ideas. We finally hit on one that was
brilliant in its simplicity. If you see me or my dad, ask us about our solution. Below
is the strong wall in place with room to spare. 