Looks Like we Made it!

FINALLY!!! The kitchen renovation is done!!! We weathered the end of the summer and early fall without a functioning kitchen for several weeks.  Trust me when I tell you that it’s not fun washing dishes in a bucket with the garden hose (or in the tiny half bathroom sink).  And that eating take-out (all. the. time.) is not what it’s cracked up to be.  But we made it!  It’s done.  We hung the last finishing touch (the beautiful roman shade) over the window last week and our kitchen is DONE!

Take a peek at some of the before and after photos!  I LOVE everything about the new kitchen and I can’t pick a single favorite detail.

 

 

 

Happy Birthday, Robert!!

Robert is a two year old force to be reckoned with!  Robert officially entered "the terrible twos" last Monday (although unofficially he's been acting out the terrible twos since he's 15 months old).  

His favorite word is "No!" and as of late we just can't seem to keep pants on the child. *sigh*.  But all that aside, we love him just the same. It hardly seems possible that our "baby" is turning into a big boy (a big boy who has done pee pee in the potty at least three times now!"). 

Happy Halloween!

Trick-or-Treat smell my feet. Give me something good to eat!!  The boys went out trick-or-treating for the first time. (Thank you, Grammy and Pepere, for handing out candy so we could enjoy this experience as a family!!)

AJ was ridiculously shy and not into it (until he could ring our own doorbell and say "Trick-or-Treat" to his Grammy) and Robert LOVED yelling "Trick-or-Treat" to all the neighbors. 

Of course every holiday and milestone makes me super nostalgic, so here's a trip down memory lane at Halloweens of Pouliot past. 

Smile for the Camera!

And smile they did!! I was thrilled when I picked up the boys’ school pictures yesterday.  It’s so nice to have pictures of them SMILING…and TOGETHER….and NOT BLURRY because they can’t stop fidgeting.  Enjoy!



Adam Michael Pouliot, Jr.
Age 3 1/2



 

Robert Everett Pouliot
Age 23 months

 

Trick or Treat!

Halloween is a week away, but the boys celebrated early at school tonight. Of course that meant that I had to get to it when it came to making their costumes. This year AJ insisted on being a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and Robert of course would not settle for anything other than what his big brother was wearing. (They don't even know what ninja turtles are!)

I have to say that I'm pretty proud of how well their costumes turned out. But I'm more excited about how much the boys LOVE them. 

Gerbil Journal

Over the last few weeks, AJ has really bloomed in his preschool II class. They are starting new learning activities including a journal. The classroom assignment was to draw the shapes in their JOURNAL as the teacher called them out. AJ might have heard differently...

Today, his work was posted on the school Facebook page with the following caption:

"Sometimes what a child hears is not exactly what their teacher says. Learning is a process. Preschool II is starting to journal, or gerbil as this student calls it."

 

If you look close enough, his picture on the left does actually resemble a gerbil. I knew it was his work before I even talked to his teacher at pick up today. :)