room renovations + some cute things...

Here the first attempt at doing baby girl's hair!  It's pretty fine and kind of does it's own thing, but today it was standing straight up on top of her head, so I stuck a barrette in it.  Thought it was kinda cute!

Like Mercer, Isabella has discovered that she can control her hands.  She'll hold up her hand, move her fingers around, and stare at it as it moves.  This was one of the things I found really fascinating when Mercer discovered... and it's still really cool now that Isabella is doing it too!

One thing she's doing with her hands that's not so cool -- she's constantly trying to suck on her fingers or thumb.  I catch her with her hands in her mouth.  Noooooo~~~~ we don't want to go down that road.  We were lucky that Mercer didn't suck his thumb, rather, used a pacifier.  And we were able to get him to give it up eventually.  Can't really do that with a thumb or finger!

Mercer has been saying some funny things lately.  The other day he came home from school and said his teacher told him he could fly to space and become an astronaut when he grows up (and he was very serious and adamant about this).  Then in the next breath:  "but I don't want to get married.  Ever."  Why not? I asked.  "Because married people are yucky."  Daddy and I are married.  "Well, you and Daddy aren't yucky." 

That was just one example that I can remember... wish I had been writing them down all along over the past month or so.  He's got a great imagination!

He's imagining things up in his new room, unfortunately.  He's been finding a lot of excuses to call Todd or I up to his room at night.  I get it... he's a little scared... but we've got to convince him that he's OK up there.  One day, he's going to love his room.  Once we finish cleaning out the upstairs, it will feel like a little apartment.  Futon, TV, fish tank, computer table.... he will never want to leave!  Guess it will take some getting used to. 

Here's a series of photos from his first night in his room.  (just before his birthday)  He was pretty excited then about it.  And - here are some photos taken since we've gotten a few more things finished in his room like decorations up / books on the shelf / closet "door" hung / etc.  He, himself, has converted his Thomas the Train table into a LEGO table... so he's adding his mark to his room too.

It took a couple of months to get to this point in Mercer's room.  Isabella's nursery conversion was quite a bit easier.  The bones were already there from when Mercer was in the nursery / converted toddler room -- we just had to convert the bed back to a crib and add a little finishing touch just above the crib:  the pink bow on the fish "girlies it up" a bit!

Isabella OFFICIALLY slept through the night her 2nd day of daycare (Monday, March 4th).  But - she hasn't done it again.  So... she let us know she could do it, but now chooses not to?  We shall see.  In the meantime, we're sort of sleepy here / schedules are a little out of whack~ 

We'll get there.