The Saldana Zoo

We're finally back in our bedroom!!! We've actually been back in our bedroom since Saturday, but it's finally coming together. Gilbert came down with a throat infection over the weekend and he spent Saturday through Monday afternoon sleeping. He did break for church on Sunday morning but he really wasn't feeling well. Luckily the kids and I seem to have escaped that illness. However, Matthew did manage to catch another cold. Elise and I are okay for now.

Baseboards sanded down and walls primered



Sanding during nap time



Well, after painting, we decided we just couldn't live with our old bedding for long because it looked ridiculous up against the wall color. So we found something we liked and we're happy with the way the room is coming together. We need to really put some finishing touches up on the walls, but at least we're not being swallowed by brown on brown.



Matthew LOVED having our bed in the living room. Here he is enjoying a movie while laying on Mommy and Daddy's bed. This is our old bedding. You can see why we couldn't take it for long with the new wall color.



Elise tried rice cereal. She was not a fan.

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Improving on her sitting up skills



Uncle Jason gave Matthew a bucket of army men. Can you tell he's excited?





Matthew thought that the mask was a hat. He was Jewish for a day.



I finally pulled Elise's high chair out of the garage. She looks so tiny in it.



Bruce and Vicki gave Matthew a skateboard for Christmas last year and he gets to play with it every now and then but we only let him play with it on the carpet. He surprised us by doing this when neither one of us taught him to do this:

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Elise got some Tinkerbell sippy cups =)



Matthew likes to smother Elise with love







Elise doesn't like the flash on the camera. It always takes at 3-4 tries to get a decent picture of her looking at the camera if I have to use the flash. I get a whole lot of this.



Matthew "helping" Mommy clean the windows. His spray bottle was filled with water.





Elise has finally decided she wants to try to get around a little bit... and then she wedged herself under the couch.



I love this face. This is new.

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Yes, that was a long post. Gilbert is on vacation next week but we're just going to be hanging out at home. Much easier with 2 little ones. We'll see what we end up doing.