Welcome to number 32

I finally got around to taking some pictures of our place.  Of course it is a cloudy day so the lighting is lacking...but what do you do?  Our neighbor told us these houses were built about 1903.  We are lucky it has newly been renovated but still possesses some fun charm.  So follow me as I take you on a tour of #32 with all of its 36 stairs (if you can't go out you go up).

 Living room

Living Room

 Entry with its awesome crown molding 

 Dining Room

Dining Room

Fireplace in the dining room.  Most of the other fireplaces are boarded up since the builders didn't put hearths in it's against code to burn in them.  We could take the boards off but there is only one other one that looks this decorative.  Plus baby makes a big mess of herself in them so we decided to leave them alone.

 Kitchen

 Play Room/Guest Room

Bigger Girls Room

 Baby's Room

 Our 3rd floor loft or Rapunzel's room as Letty calls it

 Our room

 The skylight from the loo.  I often hum "chim chimney" while showering :)

 Our odd rock garden.  The landlord wanted no maintenance.  It would have been nicer to just pave it but oh well.

Good bye.  I hope you come and see us soon!

First Day of School...again

Letty was so so so excited to finally start school.  She loved her first week.  She is somewhat of an American novelty, I'm not sure if there are any other Americans in her school.  Their uniform is the school sweatshirt or plain blue sweater, white or light blue shirts, grey or black skirts or trousers.  I LOVE uniforms, so easy.

She did it!

Gracie went and turned four on us!  We celebrated a day early since we moved on her birthday (good thing she is still young enough to not be upset by this).  The following day was Sunday so we loaded up into our newly acquired car to head to church.  About five minutes later we were heading back home since Gracie got sick all over herself and the car.  Poor girl, my friend reminded me that she was sick last year on her birthday as well, stinkin' winter!  

We are so blessed to have Gracie in our family!  As a four year old we are working on not having a melt down over how our clothes feel especially our underwear and also using the toilet before it's an emergency.  One of my favorite things is her amazing laugh.  She has had it since she was a baby and I'm so glad it's still around.  We were at our neighbors house and the kids were playing and laughing.  "Who is that laughing?!?" our neighbor exclaimed.  "Oh, it's just Gracie" I replied.  She was pretty amazed at her deep, loud laugh.  

We love you baby girl!

 "Is this how many fingers I am now?"

Trying to be a nice sister and put up with the hair brushing.  It didn't last too long.

                                                   All of her spoils

                                      Random pic of another awesome slide