Catching Up

I thought I would spend this post catching up on things that I previously promised to share…Charlotte and Elijah’s tae kwon do belt test and a furniture update.  We also had some newborn photos taken of Jeremy, our second sitting for the baby club I joined when I got my maternity pictures done.  You can check them out in the same place as those earlier photos: sonshineportraitdesign.com , where you click on “clients” at the top and type in “jeremy” minus the quotes for the password.  Christie, the photographer, just added them on to the maternity photos gallery, so you’ll have to scroll through those to get to the new ones.

We think Jeremy looks like a baby angel!  It’s going to be hard to pick what to order.

On March 27, the kids tested for their blue belts, which is always amazing for us to watch.  In the first couple of pictures, the kids had to kick targets higher than their heads.  Look at them catch some air!  And, as always, we hold our breath during their board breaks.  The kids had to do a jump kick this time, which was much more difficult than the previous stationary break kicks.  Charlotte broke her board on her third or fourth attempt; I think it took Elijah closer to six tries because he got worried about hurting his foot.  (Can’t say that I really blame him on that.)

 

 

The big deal about moving from green to blue belt is that the blue is a mid-level, rather than a beginner, belt.  So, from here on out, tae kwon do gets a bit more challenging, and we should have longer amounts of time between belt tests. 

I can only hope!

In other news, our furniture saga came to an end this past Saturday, with the delivery of two beautiful bedroom suits.  Six weeks after I ordered it, the furniture FINALLY arrived.  (If you remember, I was promised that it would be here in two weeks!)   Evidently, Elijah’s furniture had one piece that needed to be made, so instead of simply backordering it and shipping the pieces it had, the company opted to construct the piece and ship everything at once.  The salesman kept telling the guy at the furniture store the equivalent of “The check is in the mail,” much to everyone’s frustration.

Nevertheless, Charlotte now has a twin trundle bed and a chest of drawers.  Elijah got a new full bed, a chest of drawers, and a night stand.  Here are some photos, which also show a bit of their new rooms.  We don’t quite have everything organized yet, but this will give you an idea!

 

As soon as the delivery men left, I began emptying the baby’s room of the kids’ clothes, and we got them completely moved in to their new rooms downstairs.  At last!

Both rooms still need a bit of work.  Charlotte and Jeff looked at ceiling tile a few days ago, and we will be ordering that soon.  This will finish up her room.  Elijah’s room still needs black trim painted and put up, as well as ceiling tile.  But the rooms are now quite livable, and our kids are sleeping in real beds, off the floor, for the first time since we left the apartment in Peoria last August!  We didn’t quite meet my before-the-baby deadline, but we made it.

And that’s what else is going on here.  Never a dull moment!