Rocco's First Time Playing T-Ball
My nephew Owen preferred playing in the dirt
Rocco actually hit the ball from the coaches pitch!!!
The Coaches: Vinnie, my big bro Darren, and my little bro Wesley
My newphew Gavin chillin' in the dug out!Seeing that we had 4 different types of flooring underneath our carpet, before they could lay the wood they had to put down some kind of cement stuff to help level out the floors. This takes 24-48 hrs. to dry and you CAN NOT WALK ON IT!!!! This particular strip was connecting the old part of the house to the addition. So you had to go up the back stairwell and through the upstairs and back down the front stairwell to get from point A to point B. Very annoying. We had a SERIOUS chat with the boys about NOT walking on the wet cement. Well we were leaving and putting our shoes on when Dominic suddenly appeared at the front door but not from coming down the right stairwell. When I asked him how he got downstairs he burst out crying, this is what I found......
The reason for my blogging hiatus. At the end of this spring we started a small house addition to our home. Just a little over 2200 square feet, nothing big! ha ha. Here are a few of the beginning pictures. I will post pictures of the finished project. It feels so good to be able to call it a finished project. It was quite the production but we a thrilled with the results. So I promise to reveal pictures of the new addition in a future post.
Roll out the equiptment. The boys loved watching all of the big machines
A little frame work
A look from the inside
and from the outside
a view from the existing part of the house. this is the wall that will be knocked down to combine the addition to the existing part. the hole is where the sliding glass door to the backyard used to be.
don't mind dominic
who needs TV when you can just watch the construction guys at work.
some of the original hardwood floor when the house was built in the 1880's
We uncovered 4 different types of flooring when we pulled up all the carpet. Which is now all dark hardwood floors. we had lots of little surprises throughout the construction. that's what you get with a house almost 130 years old.
They played games
won prizes
had their hair painted
ate cotton candy
potato sack races
rocco was a little better than dominic
cute cousins holding hands waiting for their snow cones
ate snow cones
made some future career plans
All in all everyone had a fabulous time!!!
Rocco started level 2 this summer
Rocco's little friend whom he referred to as "His little Coco Puff"
Favorite thing was jumping off the diving board
Rocco has turned into an excellent swimmer
After two weeks of daily swimming lessons Rocco passed level 2 and is now ready for level 3 which is the entire length of the pool! Whoooo Hoooo!
Hair netted and ready to go!
Some Hair Net Hotties!
All the kids waiting patiently to enter the factory
Someone's a little excited about the candy
Carlson Clan
When they said everyone had to have a hair net, they meant EVERYONE!
Little Philip, who is allergic to peanuts, even got to tour
Vinnie's Aunt Polly, for whom we race
Vinnie with cousins TJ and Steve
"TEAM POLLYWOOD"
Some of us raced for the cure, some of us walked for the cure, and others strolled for the cure! I am back from hiatus. I have been debating whether to try and blog our past 5 months or just start from now and work my way back. The OCD in me wants me to just pick things up where I left off and so that's what I'll be doing. So ......we'll start back at the end of May. We've been pretty busy around here so bear with me.
