Last of the Remodelling Finished!

Finally all our big projects are done except for the driveway, which we will only do if we have time and money before selling. One weekend we ripped off the old ugly orange carpet on the stairs and upstairs hallway and replaced it. The new carpet is the same as the rest of the house but we have a whole roll we have to use up. Then the following weekend we decided to do the kitchen floor. We thought we would just rip up the old stuff and put down new linoleum in one afternoon. Yeah right! We started to scrape off the old stuff and could only get the top part off. That took until late Friday night.
Saturday, we had other plans so we weren't able to work on it until nighttime. But we now had to get off the glue part of the old linoleum. Wilmer looked online to see if anyone had any helpful info and one guy said he used boiling water. So we boiled water and poured it in puddles on the floor. After letting it soak we scraped up the residue. It worked very well! So by late Saturday night we had it all off. Underneath was probably the original floor of checked tiles but we weren't about to start tearing that off. It was all nice and smooth so it was fine anyway.
Sunday, we went to Henrietta to pick out some linoleum from a floor place so they could give us good advice. We ended up spending a little more than we planned but we got what they call floating floor. It is thicker linoleum that you don't have to tape or glue. You cut it and place it where it goes. So by Sunday night, Wilmer had it all completed! It looks so nice and bright in my kitchen now! To see the pictures of this- go to http://picasaweb.google.com/wilmer.caballero
Then click on Aaron-Tyler-New Remodelling album and go to the end of it.

Kids Update!

Tyler- Monthly Photos

Tyler is 4 months old. I can not believe how time has flown. He has changed a lot so quickly. He is trying to sit up now. He does not like to recline partially- it has to be either all the way up or all the way down! There are no teeth yet but not for lack of trying on his part! He is a drool machine. He is working on turning over consistently. He has turned over from belly to back and back to belly at least once each but it is starting to become easier for him to do over and over. There is a movie of him turning over in the web album entitled 'Aaron-Tyler-New Remodelling'. If you click on the above picture of Tyler, it will take you to the web picture gallery.

Aaron is 2 but we keep forgetting that! He is learning and progressing so fast, it seems like he is much older. He knows all his colors- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, white. He can count in order 1-10. He is working on 11-20. He can identify all the letters either by name or something that they start with. As far as language%2

Good News!

We were able to sell our house in Pennsylvania that Dad and David helped us to fix up. We signed the papers on March 30 and the folks moved in this past weekend. It is actually a lease option which in the long run will pull in more money than if we sold it outright. The sale price was also much higher than we had anticipated so we are very happy about that! Now we are looking for another rehab- possibly one we could move into after we are finished if it is in NY.