Before and After

Well, we have just about gotten all of our house projects done....about time since we began all of this in January. Our own room trim still needs painted, but the rest of the rooms are completely finished! The last outstanding chore I kept putting off....a box cushion and throw pillows for my great grandmother's bench. Last week I forced myself to dive into this project, thanks to google, I found a great tutorial and it was only a four hour project. Yea!!! Here are the before and after picutres. I posted a while back a few shots, but the before and after give a better idea of how drastically we changed the feel of the room. Have to run and finish cleaning and prepping to celebrate Levi's first birthday this weekend!

Walking with his walker in the driveway....feeling proud.

Levi's "feed me NOW!" face....we see this whenever we put him in his high chair with no food in sight.

Wishing Chair

Nashville Library and Wishing Chair productions put on regular puppet shows in the children's Theater at the Library. We had the privilege of seeing The Stonecutter during our trip to Nashville. I took some video, but later found this one on Youtube, that is the full show. Its bunraku and the singing and naration are the Professor and Mary Mary from storyime. Very talented folks. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/E0lnxwFMmeI

Nashville is so COOL!

Tuesday in Nashville we set out with a list of things to do for the week and checked off nearly half! We started with storytime at the Nashville library. I have been to a lot of great storytimes, but this had to be the best! They have two characters, The Proffessor and Mary Mary who come out in costume and alternate singing, drawing, and reading stories, and there are also three puppets, somewhat reminiscent of Mr. Rogers. Oh, and juggling, the Professor juggles! Then we tracked down a place called Phillips Toy Mart. The coolest toy store EVER! They carried all our favorites, like Manhattan Toys, Hape, Haba, Corolle dolls, Plan Toys, Melissa and Doug, Kumon, Usborne, etc. I don't know which of us had the most fun. Rebecca came out with a doll and doll carrier, similar to the ones I use with Levi and for Levi I got the Melissa and Doug walker toy with alligators that chomp up and down when you push. He thinks he's hot stuff now. That would have been a great day, but it got better. Rebecca and I shared some Chinese while Levi got in a nap and then we went to Monkey's Treehouse. An indoor playground, which was great for a rainy Tuesday.

So much to do!

 Special area for the under two crowd.

The perfect princess accesory. Check out CharmingCharlie.com they have accesories for EVERY color and style imaginable. Also their prices are reasonable and $5 shipping no matter your order. The store was like a candy store for Rebecca and I.

On Thursday we found another indoor playplace. This one is in Franklin and was beyond amazing. You can come and go as you please all day, the kids have a path to ride bikes indoors, coffee bar and free wifi for mom....Evansville NEEDS one! We took a break from play to hit Cool Springs mall.....more amazing shopping, and then went back for a little more play in the afternoon.

                                    The week also held several trips to Whole Foods, Opry Mills Mall, Cece's frozen yogurt and a myriad of other neat shops, and little adventures. Oh, and we also ate at a place with a 200,000 gallon aquarium in the restaurant with sharks, sting rays, and TWO marine biologist floating around amongst the coral reef and hundreds of small reef fish. AMAZING week!