I figured because it has been a month since my last post I should probably do some updates.
We moved almost all of our things into the new house on May 25th. When we arrived we found that there had been a fire in the laundry room. 
Thankfully it was contained to just the one room, so we thought we would just have to remodel the laundry room, get the A/C cleaned out and we’d be moved in by the end of the week. WRONG! Here we are a month later, living with my mom and her husband while the house is pretty much completely remodeled from floor to ceiling. All the word that we did the month before we moved in had to be completely re-done, with the exception of the floors. They will need to be resealed though. It has been increasingly frustrating to be living under some one else’s roof, not having all our our belonging, and not knowing where a good majority of them are, but in the end this has been a huge blessing. Our new house, which was built in 1997, will be pretty close to entirely brand new when we move in this weekend! I picked out my new washer and dryer last night, as well as al new light fixtures and ceiling fans. We are also getting new vertical blinds in the living room ( they were the old school cloth material before… YUCK!) New hardware for the kitchen cabinets. The insurance company is footing the bill for this entire remodel and we had the funds to re-do the whole kitchen but decided to put that off until a later date just so we can get in our house before the kids start college :0)
Because we didn’t think that we would be out of the house for more than a week, we left all of our furniture and everything in the house. This caused everything to smell like a fire place. Part of the renovation was to have everything professionally cleaned. I’m really hoping this worked well because having our furniture smell like that kind of irks me. Before any of this happened though we were planing on having out seafoam couches cleaned, so I am stocked about seeing them and hoping they look brand new again.
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Change of subject
This post is turning out much longer than I had anticipated. One positive thing about staying at my mom’s is she has her own personal pool. The kids and I have been taking major advantage of that. Trey has been able to swim since he was 15 months old but kind of developed some bad habits in the last year. In the past month he has taught himself how to use his arms when swimming, come up for air with out having to roll over into a float, do minimal tricks when jumping in
and starting to dive down to pick up toys. Leilani is also pretty much fearless in the water. She hasn’t been sticking to the swim-float-swim routine exactly but she is a fish regardless. She even jumps in off the hot tub as well. 
In other Leilani news, she is talking up a storm. probably 80% of it is babbling but she is speaking pretty clearly for a lot of other words like I love you, Please, Thank you, Trey, Lani, swim, Brooklyn and so on. She is also doing great going to the bathroom on the big potty. I have contemplated doing our 3 day potty training on her while we are at my mom’s on the tile but I just don’t think she is quite there yet. Maybe another 2 months.
I think that’s it for now. We are FINALLY moving into our home this weekend and I could not be more thrilled. I’m hoping to have a open house/house warming with a month or so. I’ll keep you posted :0)
STAY COOL!
