October 29, 2006

• I finished sewing costumes for Halloween last night, with 3 days to spare! Go me! I have a pic of Megan, but I still need to get one of Becca. Megan was being a total ham, so her pic is a little dorkey. She says this is her cute kitty expression.

  

  You can't see it, but she is holding her tail, which I tipped in white, and I added little pink pads onto the paws to make it more cat-like. 

  Becca's is a dragon, done in red and yellow. She found a dragon head-piece at Legoland, so I did the body part for her.

  Last week the girl's school had their fall carnival and the kids had a lot of fun. I ran the frog ring toss both for an hour, but the other parent didn't show up, so it ended up being a bit more exciting than I expected. But it was fun and all the kids were cute in the Halloween costumes. Becca managed to collect enough points from games to trade in for a huge, camoflaug stuffed frog. Megan used her points to get lots of little things. It always is interesting how different they are and how differently they do things.

  Speaking of different, Megan was diagnoised with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Poor kid got that from me I am afraid. Anyhow, apparently all the trouble we have had with her being a picky eater, since way back when she was even 2 and 3 is her particular obsession. They do have drugs to help with it, but they don't recommend them for kids, because often the side effects are worse than the original problem. So for now we will see if a therapist can offer any help or stratagies. Perhaps we can find something 'acceptable' for her to move her OCD to. I don't know, that is how I try to cope, but I have had a lot more years to learn to deal with it.

  Our landscaping is moving alone, they seemed to have placed all the cinder blocks for the walls and back patio. Next they will be filling the hollow interior with cement. Not sure what comes after that. Last week they took a whole truckload of dirt away that they had dug out. Well here are some pictures, which should show better than I can explain:

  

  This will be the retaining wall for the steps up to the front door.

   

  This will be a little patio off the driveway, next to the house.

  

  Another view of the same patio off the diveway. The two sets of double-doors are off the living room and main hallway.

  

  And this is part of the backyard. This will be a covered patio. The back bit is going to be a fireplace and to the left will be a work island with small fridge and BBQ. It doesn't look terribly impressive now, does it?

  Our other happy news this week was that we finally got most of our drapes installed, so we finally have some privacy from the street! We are still waiting on one set, the delay being fabric that has been on order for close to 6 months now. They say it will shipped early November, but at this point I am not holding my breath. Anyhow, here are some pics of how the living room and dinning room look now. We are basically done furninshing them now, we just need to hang some pictures.

   

  This is the left side of the living room.

   

  The right side, Milkyways favorite sleeping couch, especially when the sun comes through the windows and onto the couch.

  

  And our dinning room, ready for entertaining! Just in time for Thanksgiving!

  Okay, well that is about all the news for now. Hope everyone is well and has a great week!

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