Purple princess room. Before and After

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Kaylee wanted a purple princess room for the “new” house. I knew the children would be sharing so I had a more neutral color in mind. Jon and I always shared a room with siblings, and the kids like sharing a room. So until they get older and it’s odd they will continue to share. This is a before and after of The Nursery. A.K.A the purple princess room.

My first color choice was a shade of green that ended up looking poopy like the carpet. Not good. They (I was still packing in UT.) put one coat on and then called me. We decided that I would pick a new color after seeing the green in person.

I herd nonstop about how great it would be to have a purple princess room. So did everyone else.

Josh said I should just do purple because guys can do purple and it’s a gender neutral color. I told him I’d send Regan his way in later years if I got flack about having him in a purple room. Then Kaylee and I went to the store and I let her pick from three color chips.

2011-10-22_11-41-26_397And here is a photo of said poopy carpet. Literal poop. I decided against posting the dookie photo. GROSS! So this is the master carpet, but it’s all the same. And I am SO happy I missed out on dealing with that beast. They cleaned the cement. A LOT.2011-10-22_11-42-45_316

The room was this pink color that I HATED. And came with popcorn ceilings. So those had to go.2011-09-17_15-44-56_912

The ugly old yellowed switches and outlets went away too.2011-09-17_15-44-31_373 2011-11-11_22-09-54_265Dwayne installed most of the new floor for the house. He’s awesome like that. Pretty pretty floor.

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So she got her princess room. But I did it my way. I didn’t want her to grow out of her room in a few years, and then have to do it over. So I decided to make a room that is meaningful for our family and that she can grow with.

I had her grandparents and the Greats that she knows send me a favorite wedding photo for her room. They are her princesses with their princes. AWESOME right?  I also got enlargements of Temples that have special meaning for our family, and those are her “castles”. She has for years called temples “Temple castles”.

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She started asking us where the baby was going to sleep. So I told her that her bed goes on top of Regan’s and turns into a bunk, and that the crib would go where her bed was. So she NEEDED us to bunk their beds NOW! (This was months ago.) Her reason being that they needed practice sleeping in bunk beds. So…..011 013 021 026 028 033 067

They were VERY excited to go to bed that night.

068 010They LOVE the beds bunked. This was the day I got them new bedding. They like to lay in bed and chat.

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This is our cute crib. Shannon gave it to us since we left ours in Utah when we moved. I had planned on just buying one off Craig’s list when we decided to adopt. Well the deciding to adopt happened much faster than I thought it would. 🙂 But it timed out perfectly for scoring this sweet crib.127 126 123 125

A little princess bling on the plain closet doors. I love all the mirrors. They add so much light to the room.131 132

We have (left to right, top to bottom) the St. George, UT Temple, L.A. Temple, Mesa, AZ Temple, the rendering of the Phoenix, AZ Temple, and the SLC, UT Temple.133And now for a side by side comparison.

BAceilingfan BAclosetDoor BAwallFloorWe like it. More important Kaylee LOVES it. She got her purple princess room and couldn’t be happier.

139And Regan LOVES his mini man cave. 😉

Joshily house demo continued.

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Photos are NOT in any sort of order. Different days and times all mixed together. Enjoy.

IMG_7793Getting rid of unnecessary walls and closets had competently changed the feel of the Meadow house!

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Who needs a wheel barrow when the house comes with own shopping cart. Seriously fantastic. IMG_7788 IMG_7787 IMG_7785

Regan asks every day to, “Go Josh and Emly house an use my baby Regan hammer?” IMG_7783 IMG_7804

She came inside giggling because they decided to sidewalk chalk each other instead of the sidewalk.

They do spend lots of time playing outside, and more time watching movies while the adults work. But they do LOVE “helping” with the demo/remo efforts though. And yes they are watched. There are MANY pairs of eyes on these two.

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I know! And that was ONE wall in ONE room. There were painted over staples, and nails, and…… Twas bad!

IMG_8224This is where/what they spend most of their time. Kaylee watching a movie, and Regan playing Angry birds. Hmm not sure what those two were doing with the shop vac….

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Helping hammer out some tile to make life easier for the carpet instal.IMG_8209 IMG_8210

She really was enjoy herself, and I did put safety glasses on her after taking these pics. IMG_8212 IMG_8214 IMG_8216

She enjoyed painting letters on the wall.IMG_7801 IMG_7803OH BOY! Yes well, he was working that HARD!

 

Kindergarten screening

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IMG_8236Kaylee and the super cute/nice teacher/lady (not sure if she is a teacher, or just helping with testing? I will call her a teacher.) who administered her screening test. She was very kind to humor my need to document EVERY moment of our life.

So they had us (parents and children) waiting in the cafeteria. It was fun seeing some of the other kids Kaylee will be going to school with.IMG_8252She did AWESOME! The teacher (who’s name I forgot to get.) said she is very ready for kindergarten (socially, and academically.), and that she is excited to have Kaylee attend the school. She also said that they always send kids home with a few things to work on.

The only thing she struggled with that surprised me (because she is good at this at home.) was identifying numbers 11-20. Other wise she did as expected.

So when asked to write her name (not specified which!) she wrote her LAST name. The teacher was impressed and amused. I reported that she CAN do both, but is more comfortable with the letters in her last name. We will continue to work on it.

She has ALWAYS struggled with gross motor skills. She can hop on one foot, but is super unsteady. We practice this everyday. She takes it very seriously. VERY. “I needa prakis hopping on one foot for kindergarten!” I have herd this daily for months.

She has a hard time remembering where her ankle is so that wasn’t a shock.

Jon was listening in on another teacher parent review while we waited for Kaylee to come back, and got a panicked look on his face when the teacher started talking about sequencing. HA! “Dude, she’s great at sequencing.” I think he was more nervous than Kaylee!

I have not covered opposites or rhyming words AT ALL. Those two subjects were not on my radar. The teacher said that Kaylee when asked to do opposites asked, “Whats opposites mean?” After it was explained she did great. We do need to work on it though since she said that the opposite of hot is not hot (hehe). This amused the teacher. But she knew up/down, big/small, in/out, happy/sad. I was impressed since we really have not gone over this at home.

The teacher reported that Kaylee did okay with rhyming, and that lots of children struggle with it. But to work on it over the summer. Will do teach. Will do.

She also said that I need to teach Kaylee the spalding pencil grip, and told us how to do it. I thought I was doing it right, but was just SO not. Shannon did show me the spalding way, but clearly I failed in teaching it. It’s okay. We have time to work on it.

I love that Kaylee got her first “Great job!” from a teacher. Evidently they are looking for the children to relate a sentence or two describing a picture. Kaylee told a whole story. The teacher said this is an indicator of creative writing skills. Kaylee LOVES to tell stories.

IMG_8237Just sitting and waiting for little miss to come back. Regan got to use a mini urinal while we waited. He thought that was AWESOME! Jon said it was so cute, and I said too bad getting a picture of said cuteness is not kosher.

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We let the children play for all to brief a time before we loaded them into the car to leave the school.

IMG_8239 IMG_8240 IMG_8241 IMG_8242 IMG_8243 IMG_8244 IMG_8245 IMG_8246Please note that Jon is playing too! Love that man!

Jon is dropping off the humungous registration packet today, and then she is all set for school. Well aside from uniforms, backpack, and school supplies that is! 🙂

Sunday dinner at the Day’s house:

Jon: Kaylee passed her screening.

Shannon: Of course she did. Was there any doubt.