repunzel, repunzel...

...i joked over email with a friend this morning that some kid will be saying that to adeline when she turns 6. b/c until she turns 6, she is sequestered to her bedroom. b/c she has been a total grump & really, to be honest, a spawn of the devil today (GASP. THAT MAKES *ME* THE DEVIL! well...i guess tell me something i didn't already know, eh? i mean, can't we all be a bit devilish at times? fallen human nature & all?)

this, my friends, is addy's grumpy & mean face & is mostly what she has been showing us since wednesday.

there have been moments of non-grumpy face adeline. but those moments don't last so long. so as i mentioned before, she has been told to go to her room, hold her teddy bear & let the tears flow. i held her while she cried for a bit but it seems it just may be one of those times where she just has to get over *it*--whatever IT is--by herself.

then wes & i joke about keeping her there until she turns 6. then the jokes about repunzel start, b/c really, if adeline is stuck in her bedroom until then her fast growing hair just may make it at least down to the lower window in 3 years, right? ADELINE, ADELINE, LET DOWN THINE HAIR!

this is the thing. i know how terrible i feel when a virus hits me hard as it has adeline. i know i feel miserable...but how do we help her understand that she can feel miserable & hate the world YET still be kind to others? i can not even count the number of toys she has thrown or the number of times she has pushed amelia & swatted at amelia over the past few days & especially this morning. we've had it! we're up to our ears in devil-child & i can't take it anymore!

say it with me: BEN-E-DRYL. are there any other options for cold relief for 3 year olds? seriously, drug companies! do something about this!

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what else have we been up to? remodeling the girls' bathroom! we have a strict time frame: from saturday (yesterday) to this saturday morning, when we will have guests here (wes' parents). guests use this bathroom when they are here so it *needs* to be finished by then. really, it's good that we have a strict time frame...or else it could go on & on forever, with no end in sight. like our kitchen. or our bedroom.

this is one of the glimmers of hope in our past few days: the sick, but still a bit happy, adeline. also note the two missing drawer fronts. remember me telling you how they just fall off when opening the drawer? well, here's a good shot of the aftermath: open-ended drawers. perfect for toddler hands to reach in & begin destruction of property.

so we probably should buy a new cabinet, right? but our thought is that we have a few more years of child-destruction ahead of us, with them climbing & pulling & falling into the cabinet. so we decided to just paint it & then maybe in 5 or so years, if needed, then to buy a new one. you know, when the drawers that wes is gluing & stapling & nailing back on start to fall off again.

you *know* you are envious of this light fixture. AND let's not forget to mention the medicine cabinet door! hello saloon door, what type of medicine to you have for me today? it is a great way to hang hair barrettes. hhmm. once it's gone, i will have to find a new method, drats! i bet it will look much better, though.

the person we bought this house from was a realtor. & a really terrible home-fixer-upper-person. b/c they put in all these cabinets that are falling apart & the ugly tile & the light fixtures. YES! they went out & purchased (!!!) these light fixtures! but they also did other weird things like put in toilet paper holders in dry wall that are supposed to go into tile walls (the porcelain kind, the kind that when you take them out they leave a huge hole in the wall) & then they put the towel racks about 5 feet *away* from the shower. the holes that have been spackled over are from the really super hideous towel racks that we pulled down immediately upon arrival b/c they were that ugly.

so here's our list for this week:

• paint ceiling (done)
• fill holes with dry wall & spackle mini holes & peeled drywall from who-knows-what & then sand (nearly done)
  
• paint trim & cabinet (started)
  
• paint walls
• buy new sink, medicine cabinet, cabinet for over the toilet, etc
  
• install new light
• install new medicine cabinet
• install new towel racks & tp holder
• install cabinet above toilet
• install new countertop & sink
• move faucet from the master bathroom to this bathroom (another oddity that i will explain below)
  
• install new hardware on teh drawers/cabinet doors (another story i will tell below)

*oddity: the faucet in our bathroom matches the shower faucet in the girls' bathroom. soo...they went to home depot or some place like that, purchased a new shower faucet set & the new sink faucet to match, then installed the sink one in the master bathroom. seriously, how can a realtor be so, uh, un-appealing? mis-matched? didn't they ever watch hgtv?!

*story: when we moved in, oh nearly 3 years ago, we bought a new light & then new drawer/cupboard pulls for this bathroom with the intention of remodeling this bathroom, oh, 3 years ago. we did work very hard that first 8 months...then millie's pregnancy began & voila! all home projects stopped until the play room, then our bedroom (still incomplete, that's why you haven't seen the 'after' shots yet), & yes, the kitchen will probably never be finished until we decide to completely re-gut & get new cabinets & floors (a few years away, my estimation...b/c it will shadow wes getting his old salary plus the raise he deserves with the promotion...will that ever happen? hhmm...that's why i say give us a few years). anyway, so we bought the pulls/hardware with plans to remodel this bathroom years ago. then we didn't & we put these fairly pricey pieces *somewhere*. do you know where? b/c we DON'T! we both have seen them at least once over the past 2 1/2 years but don't quite remember where. we have looked everywhere since yesterday. **we even cleaned wes' 'workshop' room in the basement in hopes that that lowe's plastic bag filled with these pulls would be found in the depths of one of the many other bags & bins & piles. nope.

i know we just have to go buy new ones, loose the reciept, & like magic the originals will turn up. in a place we never thought to look (under the couch?!)

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so. that's the goings-on here. i'll leave you with a cute shot of our cuties.