Walls walls walls

We have a laundry room! Or nook? Closet, perhaps?

View from the master bathroom.

View from the hallway. Can't wait to teach the kid to wash his own clothes!

Apparently there were ceiling lights in the dining room at one point. Eagerly awaiting their triumphant return.

We also have a new wall between the bathrooms. 

Can I just say how proud I am of the Mr? If you had asked me in May if he was about to start framing walls and plumbing  houses I would have tried to let you down very easy, cause I'm nice like that.

Let the sun shine in

If you know me, then you probably know that's a 40 Year Old Virgin reference, and that Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen and Romany Malco are bare chested singing and dancing inside my head right now. (Hopefully inside your head now too). Because NOT ONLY do we have a toilet that flushes without buckets (!!!!!!!!) we also have an amazing new window!

Guys hard at work. It's hard to remember how high off the ground the window really is...

Like, standing on scaffolding high. 

There was no way I could get the picture to balance on my iphone. The window is so bright!! But you can see the Mr.'s recent plumbing progress under the window. 

So I took another picture to show much light we're getting in the dining room these days. 

Now that the center section is gone, we can see so much further into the park (over our neighbor's shed), but there's a lit path that's visible into the park, and I think it will be really lovely in the evening. 

In less exciting progress, after much vacuuming and mopping, the Kid has a place to play and actually has indoor toys on site! We're still waiting on the new electrical wiring before we can paint, but we'll be painting like gangbusters in a few weeks. Tentative plan is to reseal the hardwoods, move in, and have them refinished professionally later. Yes, it would be better to do this before we move. It would also be better to be millionaires. 

So we're not millionaires, but we do have giant dancing light up fountains on 'our grounds'. 

So here's a gratuitous fountain shot from our morning walk with the wagon. 

Next time I am going to ride and he can pull me. 

P.S. I thought that I might take a video of the Viper flushing, but then I thought, no, that's weird. People who read blogs on the internet probably know what flushing toilets look like. Rest assured we are BEYOND THRILLED about the flushing of the toilet. RIDICULOUSLY GRATEFUL to be able to use the bathroom in our home without having to go outside! (Giant bottle of hand sanitizer outside the door.)

Celebrating functional commodes with steak and sushi (and water that comes with umbrellas)