Monthly Archives: April 2011

Happy Birthday, Havana!

April 30, 2011 – UTC

Havana’s 4 years old today. It’s hard for me to believe 4 years have passed already.

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Havana’s school birthday party

April 28, 2011 – UTC

We took our bouncy house to Havana’s school today and Gay made cupcakes so she could celebrate her birthday with her school friends. She likes butterflies, or “papillons”, so she requested “butterfly cupcakes”. Gay had to get creative: Everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to her in French and then they ate their cupcakes. Then we all [...]

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House update

April 27, 2011 – UTC

The sauna heater arrived at our house this week so we took that with us to the new house this morning to do some work. The security company installed the new monitoring devices (motion detectors, door contacts, smoke detectors) on Monday and Tuesday and we had our electrician install the cameras. I wish we had [...]

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Lucky wood find

April 22, 2011 – UTC

Since we couldn’t use the wood from Pioneer Millworks, we drove down to Tacoma this morning to visit Rhine Demolition, a stockpiler of reclaimed wood to look for a replacement. We quickly found some Douglas Fir planks that looked like the wood we wanted to use, but this was all very uniform, rather than the [...]

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Pioneer Millworks

April 21, 2011 – UTC

Our experience with Pioneer Millworks went from bad to unworkable. While we were looking for a reclaimed wood source, they provided our contractor, Schuchart/Dow, with a sample of their reclaimed wood that everyone liked. The interior designers, NB Design Group, especially liked it for its regularity across all the pieces of wood, i.e., it wasn’t [...]

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Eva’s 4-month update

April 20, 2011 – UTC

Eva is 4 months old today. She is starting to grab and hold things, smiles more and giggles when her neck is tickled. She’s not yet sleeping through the night regularly, although she’s done it a couple times. But she’s eating a lot and has some trouble napping during the day, so she must be [...]

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My closet cabinetry

April 19, 2011 – UTC

They’ve installed the cabinetry in my closet. I haven’t yet seen it in person but Mark texted me this morning about it and then Gay went to the house today and took this video of it. I designed 2 pull-out cabinets to maximize the space I had (Gay got a much bigger closet than I [...]

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Vashon Co-op preschool auction

April 16, 2011 – UTC

Gay and I went to the annual auction for Hudson’s preschool co-op. This one was much better than the event last year – the venue was better and the food was better. Gay didn’t have to be a cashier this year either, so she got to actually be at the event. We did have to do a [...]

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Replacement windows

April 16, 2011 – UTC

We’re working on getting our house on the market and that required that we replace the failing windows. We’re replacing 13 of them, some worse than others, and 5 of them were done today. They would have done all of them but they mis-measured 8 of them (identical ones) so they arrived with windows that [...]

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A week of progress

April 15, 2011 – UTC

We went to the house this morning to check on progress. The cabinetry, tile and wood trim is still being installed and we saw paint samples that Nancy and My had the painters do. Some more were being done when we arrived. It sounds like they’ve finalized most of the colors.

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