and i halped

our weekend was good, though far too short.

saturday, we dropped ollie off with mom after his morning nap so bryan and i could get cracking on the floor. we spent pretty much all afternoon grouting and cleaning the floor. it turned out rather beautiful. we still have a few tiles to grout: bryan was unable to grout the last few in the kitchen, as i needed to stand on them to clean some of the others, and we have yet to do the little back hall area. should be pretty easy, though. the toughest part was cleaning up the grout haze; the dirty wash the grout leaves all over the tiles. we went over them with 3 stages of water during the initial clean up, and then over and over them again and again. at the end of the day we scrubbed them with a 50/50 vinegar/water solution and that did the trick. once we get the last little area grouted, bryan will use an acid cleaner to remove the white film from the grout (a side effect of our cleaning) and THEN he can seal it. and the floor will be DONE!

it was tough work, though we hit our groove and started to move pretty fast. i'm still sore from all that bending and squatting though. once we were finished, dad arrived to help bryan finish laying the last couple of tiles in the back hall. i took a cool shower (which, along with fresh picked corn and afternoon naps in a warm breeze, i believe are one of the pure joys of summer) and headed over to mom and dad's to see the baby. he was having fun with nana and shannon and even took a great nap for them, thank goodness. bryan and i stayed for dinner (chicken fajitas) then rushed the baby home before total meltdown.

oliver's allergies were bothering him something awful all weekend, so i gave him some benedryl at bedtime and he slept pretty much as awesome as i could hope for (not through the night, but at least on schedule).

sunday was our anniversary! we took oliver over to mom's again, and bryan took me to see the new indiana jones movie. we both thought it was really cute and just as cheesy as ever, which i absolutely expect for an indiana jones movie. we had a lot of fun. we went to the super fancy theater again, and even ate lunch there. we don't much like paying for movies, but we're really digging the vip seating there.

afterwards, we came home and i was able to trick oliver into taking a 3rd nap for the day. after he woke up, we walked down the block to michael's family restaurant to have 5pm dinner with all the old folks (not even a joke). i had meatloaf and bryan had liver an onions. yes, we're becoming the old folks ourselves.

dad came over to help bryan move the old cabinets out of the garage and into the basement, as our new cabinets are being delivered today. the old cabinets are now in the basement, along with the old countertops and the majority of our dishes, pots, pans, and whatever else we stored in our kitchen that didn't fit in the dining room along with the dining room table, breakfast table, and fridge(yes, my house is a total disaster zone; the only way i get through it is closing my eyes). anyways, i can't wait to see the new cabinets!

as i was following them around snapping pictures, i noticed that our first roses are blooming. they are utterly gorgeous and smell wonderful. is spring actually here, now that it is june??


oliver slept like garbage last night, the little stinker. no idea what was wrong. well, plenty of ideas but no solution. so i am exhausted today. hopefully he is getting back on track at day care. she hasn't called and some PLEASE COME PICK UP YOUR INSANE SON so i have to imagine he's doing better. to make things even more fun, i ended up getting sick last night as well. oliver woke up around 10 and i went to fed him. as i was sitting in the chair i started to get very, very nauseous and hoped and prayed ollie would finish eating and go back down quickly before it got out of hand. luckily he did. for a short time at least. not sure if it was the movie theater food, suspect diner food, or the combination of the two, or perhaps i got shannon's tummy blog saturday, but it was NOT very fun.

tomorrow morning we're taking a few hours from work to drive out to sullivan, wi to view countertop samples. our designer asked the warehouse to hold the slabs for us, since the color is being discontinued. they said NO that is against policy, we will only do so once the cabinets are installed (june 15th) and the official measurements are taken. our designer pleaded, since we have to know what kind of countertops we'll have in order to paint and pick out backsplash tile, and as it's being discontinued there is no hope of knowing for sure they will have that stone by that time. but they were adamant. then the sales woman there went on to say that the stone is not smooth and we better look at it before we make our decision. sooooo we're trekking out there to view it and our 2nd choice. we really can't wait until after the cabinets are installed to know what we're getting, since we need to paint before. SUCH A PAIN. so we'll see what happens.