Merry Christmas!

Love (left to right),

Lucy, Nibbles the Nutcracker Mouse & Marigny

We bagged a big one last week!  And all we needed was a huge snowball. 

xoxo Marigny & Lucy

Surprise! It's done!!

From this.......

 To this!!

They call me mellow-yellow.....quite rightly.......

HAT BLOGGING!!

Thank you Great Aunt Karen, we love love love our Pony-tail and Pig-tail hats! We wear them to school every day and everyone says they are the cleverest hats.  Hugs all the way to Memphis!!

Lucy-left, Marigny-right xoxo

The bugs and germs are winning!  We have been in school for two months and have been home sick for:

lice, fevers, colds, ear infections and now pink eye(s).  

Our latest PSA,

Faces of pink eye:

Marigny

Lucy

We are feeling pretty pathetic right now.

We were much happier and healthier last Monday when it was Halloween!

Well, not really healthier, Lucy had to stop trick-or-treating due to an earache. But we had a great cookie making party with Peter and Violet.

Our creations.... 

The bakers...

Baker Marigny and Baker Peter

Quality control...

Baker Violet, taking her job very seriously....

Another committed baker, Miss Lucy....

Dada Bumble Bee and his little Fairy Butterfly Princesses heading out to trick-or-treat....

Marigny, Violet, Peter and Lucy

Happy Sunday!

Chef Lucy making us some apples for apple pancakes........

So, we have not been keeping up with the blog, but this post is to show why. The past 6 months on and off, and the past 2 months constantly, we have been working on our house's exterior, and we are ALMOST DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A reminder of what the house used to look like.








And here is where we stand today after three work crews, one amazing Dan, as much as ANML could contribute, about 1500 feet of various types of new lumber, probably 10000 nail holes filled (no kidding), two rounds of sanding, a bunch of new shingles, a bunch of help from the neighborhood, emotional support from the neighborhood, about a dozen mental break downs, a whole mess of new windows, late nights on tall ladders hanging off of power lines, and a whole bunch more:














Of course, it is not 100% done, but we are really close now. More when we are 100% done!

Football! We got to stay up for kickoff and the first touchdown of the season. Then Dada said it was time for bed. Grumble, grumble, grumble.....

Go Pack!

Lucy, Marigny, Dada

PS We hope Grandma, Papa, Uncle Dan and Aunt Ann had a great time at the game!!!! xoxoxoxo

We did it!! We are officially Kindergarteners.

On our way to school we were a little nervous. Drop off songs of the day:

The Really Really Song (aka, Wannabe)-The Spice Girls

Mamma Mia-Abba

Walking from Pearl to our School.....

First Day Picture

Lucy-left, Marigny-right

Happy Birthday to Dada!

Another celebration at the Great Minnesota Get Together.

We love you Dada!!

xoxo Lucy & Marigny

Happy Birthday to Us!!!!!

We are 5 years old and loving every minute. New dollies, new dresses, new fairies, new shoes, new Hello Kitties, new horses, new princess dresses, new umbrellas, new bug books, new Unicorn Pillow Pets, new bunny books, new shoelaces, new stickers, new school on wednesday, new paints, new is a really funny word when you type it over and over.... :-)

We made funfutti bug cakes and for our big day and decorated them with millions of sprinkles.....

We went to the zoo and this was our favorite exhibit....the noisy grasshopper......

How old are we? 5!!!!!!

Team Adelman, happy about being 5! Well, you decide.....

The sun is setting on this day.....

We love love love you all.......hugs everyone!!!!!

Peace to you all on our journey to 6!

Dental Drama

Long story short, we had some dental drama which was remedied on Monday. Here are the final tallies:
Marigny: 8 cavities
Lucy: 7 cavities, 4 crowns

Marigny recovering from surgery with her comfort item, Mrs. Toucan

Lucy, taken just after waking up from anesthesia and a morphine nap.....

I think they went a little overboard with the botox!
Lucy

Brave Marigny and brave Dada, watching Tinkerbell

Everyone is doing well and ready to head out on our big road trip this Friday!

Butterfly

Well, it's been a busy weekend here. The house is undergoing a metamorphosis.

Here is our house on google maps. Right now, you can see what it looked like:



So, here we go. We've been working on getting rid of that ugly grey shingling, and redoing the entire outside of the house. Curb appeal, you know. We've been working on it for a while, but made a push to finish stage 1 this weekend.

First off all, here of one of the many trash heaps we have collected in the process:




Next, here are some example of what that stuff was hiding (wish we had known when we bought the house):

1. Really top-notch wiring job for the porch light:



2. Great accent -- ripping of the drip cap, so that the ugly grey covering can fit on the house snugly:


3. And completely rotten window frames. Nice.


Anyway, we were finishing up getting off all of the shingling and the side balcony this weekend, among other things.

One of the last bits of shingle siding ("insulbrick"):


Alley side of the house on Saturday morning:


Uncle Dan working on the balcony:




More progress:


And now its gone:


The door to nowhere.


The finished product, from further down the alley:


Of course, there are three more sides of of the house, each with 2 floors, not to mention the attic.

A rooftop consultation:


An Dan climbing around on the roof:




Anyway, by end of day Saturday, we were done with the first stage of the outside of the house.

We'll take a moment to mourn our tree that received the orange mark of death:


So, a full day of work on Saturday. Time to play. Ketsale's (next door) third birthday:

Games first:



Ketsale in a cake coma:


That's what too much cake will do, I guess.



Anyway, woke up Sunday with nothing to do. What the hell, lets rip out the kitchen wall.

First, use a low quality stud finder. :)



Once you've found the low-quality stud, have him tear the call out with his bear hands:


Actually, first step was to put up a LOT of plastic, and then have Dan go to work with a sawzall.



Eventually we got out the part we wanted out, without destroying the house.




Not bad for a weekend. Time to go to sleep though.