Blessed

I'm feeling really blessed with this remodel right now. I'm seeing things on the more finished side now, and it's starting to sink in that we actually WERE able to get this done. I sat this morning before church eating breakfast and drinking my coffee(I got up before the kids!!) and was so thankful for my new dining room space and the new addition we'll definitely soon be enjoying. It's more than I could have imagined. I painted the dining room Thursday night and Friday during nap/quiet time, and Brent put down the floor on Friday evening. We painted up some trim for the dining room yesterday and will be putting that on soon. The boys were VERY interested in helping Brent out with the floor. Tate brought up all his tools, or anything that looked like a tool(evidently the pizza spatula looked like a tool) and they both "helped" as much as we would let them. Here are some pictures:
The boys helping:




Before and after of the dining room:
Before the doorway was cut yesterday:

The new doorway:

And here are a couple pictures of my muddy children. A lady from church gave me some lady bug rain boots for Callie, except they were a little big. I put on her jelly sandals and then put on the boots, hoping they'd stay on better. They stayed on, but she's not so good with her balance and right after this picture was taken she fell face first into the puddle:
After getting her all changed I came out to find that Tate had gotten a little muddy himself.
This picture just screams of Tate's personality. Mud on his face, his toothless grin with a little drool coming out, and of course a boy's favorite attire: camouflage.

I think he ended up going through three outfits due to mud, and Hunter went through two and Callie through two. I had to go buy another thing of Oxy Clean b/c I'm running a little low. Hmmmmm, wonder why. Between mud and potty training my washer and dryer are getting a rather strenuous workout. Potty training is going pretty well, I think something clicked in Tate. He even woke up dry this morning!