Connections

I hate connections. They better not lose my luggage!

My first flight

And our first time boarding before first class. :)

Master bathroom remodel day 300

Okay it hasn't taken 300 days but it is dragging on. Here you can see the vanity cabinets installed and the drywall textured. This is after I took down the drywall and had the framer lower the medicine cabinets 3 inches. I also lowered the lights 5 inches and then re-hung the drywall and repaired the old cutouts. Although I measured the vanity width and took into account the door trim, I didn't take into account the tile on the side of the tub. As a result, the drawers will not open so we placed the cabinets so that the drawers will clear the tile on the left side but now they won't clear the door trim. We'll need to cut the drawer faces a little in order to clear it and hence why there are no drawers on the right side. There are just way too many details to plan for.



With all the careful planning, you'd think I would have measured the door to see if the cabinet would fit. Luckily it fit after removing the door and some of the trim.


I also had the plumbers come back out so they could center the showerhead and the temperature control. I took down the cementboard and then made a patch so that the holes matched the new locations of the rough valves. I also changed out some of the 1/2 inch cementboard for 1/4 inch hardiebacker(white-ish gray) so that the shampoo niche would be just a little bit larger.


Concrete patch.

Let me out!

Cat Seat

To prepare for Lauren's upcoming airplane flight, we bought a new car seat, although Riley thinks it's his seat. We bought the Britax roundabout since it got top marks and was smaller than their Marathon model. We bought the seat from Albeebaby.com.

I'm 9 months old now!

I can sit up, crawl, stand up in my crib, climb the monkey bars, clap, wave goodbye, make clicking noises with my tongue, and next week, I'll be swimming in the Pacific Ocean. :)

2 steps forward, 1 step back

We have made some more progress but only to discover that some things need to be fixed. The framer installed this access panel so that we can change the air pump or electronics for the tub. The plumbers also finished the shower plumbing and setting the tub in concrete.


Here you can see all the rough plumbing and the insulation that I put around the pipes.


Here I relocated the pump closer to the access panel for easy services. I also mounted the electronics near the door as well as wired up an outlet for the pump and lights.


Here you can see the duct work and exhaust fan that I installed. The long duct is going to the shower where we have another exhaust fan. I'm so glad I don't have to breath in that insulation anymore.


After I finished installing the duct work, adding 2 more recessed lights, and moving the pump, the drywallers were ready to hang. Here you can see the cementboard (gray) and the drywall.



Here's the inside of the shower with the rough plumbing. If you look closely, you'll notice that the plumbing is not centered on the wall. It's off by like 1 inch to 1.5 inches depending on the item. The light in the ceiling is centered. We might have the plumbers come back and fix this. Unfortunately I didn't catch this before the drywallers hung the cementboard.


Here we installed one of our medicine cabinets so that we could check the height. It turns out that the opening is a tad too high for a certain someone so we are going to get the framer to lower the opening 3 inches and then I'm going to lower the light outlets 5 inches. Hopefully all this rework won't take too long.

Olympics 2024

First sitting, then crawling, and now the monkey bars.



So this is grass. I'm not quite sure I like how it feels.

My first restaurant highchair

Where's my food!

Catch me if you can

Lauren is officially crawling now. We still need to do some more baby proofing and have mentally accepted fingerprints all over the house but....



...I wasn't quite expecting this.