Water in the River

Leif is ready to devour that Multigrain Bread Extraordinaire (that's the actual name of it, not my description!)

We ate homemade bread with homemade butter for dinner. The bread is very multigrain - my version had rolled oats, oat bran, quinoa, and brown rice! It wa soft but nice and noshy. Very yummy!

We'e been enjoying very fine weather (that's a movie line). We spend a good part of our day outdoors...on nature walks, collecting weeds (will explain later!), running around the yard, cleaning the outside of the house, gardening, etc. Love this time of year!

He decided to get a chair. He started out sitting on it and digging a hole, but quickly moved down to the ground. :)

I've decided that Leif could use a new bedroom.

Not a different whole room, but a redesign of his current one. The sad truth is, Leif no longer likes his crib. I made the mistake a long time ago of saying in front of him to Jason, "Look how big he's getting! His crib is starting to get too small!" and well, he needed nothing else. He has been saying, for close to a year now, I'd reckon, that "my crib is to 'mall for me!" and refuses to sleep in it (eventually, he does sleep in it, but ugh! the evenings around here!)

The truth is, his crib isn't too small at all.

He can still sleep in it for a another year, at least. But he can climb out now rather easily, and as a little guy that enjoys his independence (that's putting it mildly), I think it's time he has a little bed of his own. A bed with no high sides to it, so I don't have to worry about him falling off as he climbs out and breaking something, a bed low enough to the floor that he can get in and out easily, and a bed high enough so that the things that go creep in the night can't access him as easily. (Our house, we are told, once had a bad rat problem - not the big city rats we're used to, but little water rats. We haven't seen any since we've been here, or any evidence of any, and after our last house experience, I'd say we're pretty knowledgable on rodentia).

So, time to do a new bed...and while we're at it, why not a new room?

I've drawn up plans, both for a new bed and the new room. We'll be taking down the crib and storing it. We'll also take the blanket chest out of his room and move that to another room. Which leaves...no furniture in his room!

We'll build him a bed and a few other things (don't want to give all the surprises away!)

I'm giddy about the whole thing for multiple reasons, but one of them is that in moving furniture around my house, I'm going to get a little sideboard in my dining room that I've been wanting and that will solve my current silverware issue (the issue is: where to put the silverware?)

I know I'm weird - taking all the furniture out of my son's room solves my silverware issue - pure strangeness. But still, I'm really excited and hoping to get his room done very soon! I've been very into decorating the home lately, snarfing down design mags and blogs for inspiration. I think it comes in part, from our being here such a long time. I've been on the move for such a long time (since before I met Jason, even), that I've become very hesistant to hang things on the wall or attempt to decorate too much lest I move again soon. Wall decor and decor in general can be very cumbersome to move - it adds up quick to be a lot of bulk (often somewhat fragile). So, since I'm getting comfortable here, I decided to do a little by little, using what I have as much as possible.

The best thing about Leif's room, though, is with some help from 2p, we've designed it so that we are actually using things we already have, and only need to buy a few cheap things to supplement! Awesome!

I think I could do the majority of it myself, with a bit of help from Jason and his carpentry expertise, but hopefully, we'll be able to work on it together and get it done lickety-split. The sooner we can get Leif content in his room, the better it will be for us all!

Like Leify always says, "We all work together!"

Enough of my blabbering, then.

:)