The basement is definitely coming together nicely.  They have started the drywall and are working on getting the bathroom all together.  The shower stall is installed now.  They just have to add the faucets and the door to it.  I have to admit that Bill did a good job picking out the shower unit.  Bill’s job this weekend is to finish putting the can lights in.  His brother is coming to finish running the phone and cable lines.  We have a seriously busy weekend ahead of us.

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Bill and I have been talking for a while about signing up Madison for soccer. She’s only 4, but we have a net in the yard. She’s actually pretty good (this coming from a person who actually played soccer in high school) for a 4 year old. She knows how the goalie throws the ball. She even knows how to dribble the ball. Yet, Bill and I haven’t worked on either skill with her, so we are not sure where she learned them. The only thing (and I laugh every time she does it) she does wrong is that she has to set herself before she kicks a goal.

Well, today we signed her up for a semi-local soccer place. Its a tad more expensive than say the park district, but the class ratio is better. Plus, it has open enrollment. We went to our first class today, and she loved it!!! She literally ran around for 50 minutes (if she can keep this up, she’ll never need anti wrinkle cream since exercise helps keep those away). Her skills were better than some of the other kids who have been there the entire session! One of the little games they played was called Ants and Dogs (you had to keep from being tagged), and Madison won!

We signed up for the rest of this session. We’ll see how it goes, and maybe Madison can play all summer!

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Well, I haven’t updated with any pictures since framing just looks like framing. A lot of electrical work has been done too (by Bill and his brother), but you really can’t see that either. However, we started working on adding a bathroom today. Here’s what it looks like when you add a bath when you didn’t have one before:

Yes, you have to dig up the foundation and add a pit (and beyond that they lost me.) Let me tell you, it is super stinky when they do this too! At times today, I was already to pack up the Briggs and Riley luggage, and high tail it out of here. However, opening the windows helped somewhat. I keep trying to remind myself — this is all for a good cause. LOL

I also most forgot to tell you. We had to shut the gas off on Friday to move some piping. Well, when we went to relight the water heater, it wouldn’t! After messing with it for about an hour, we ended up at Home Depot and got a new one. That means, the only appliance we haven’t replaces since we moved in here is the refrigerator! Keep your fingers crossed on that one please. In a way, it is good that it died now. It was 21 years old, so it definitely was on its way out.

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I know I didn’t post on Mother’s Day, and I got some emails asking why. Well, Bill didn’t get me anything for Mother’s Day from either him or the kids. Needless to say, my feelings were a tad hurt. I seriously would have been happy with a card. I spent most of my day mad about it. We talked and he didn’t think that he should get me anything, and it never dawned on him that the kids should have gotten me something. Sometimes, I swear, I could just smack him upside the head. I showed him all the things he could have gotten me like an optical mouse (since I go through mouses like there is no tomorrow) or even my very own GPS unit. Heck, anything off of Buy.com’s weekly deals page would have made me happy! I know I don’t normally post when Bill messes up, but I decided that it may help other men out there! Buy your wife something for Mother’s Day! She’s not your mother, but the mother of your children. If your children are little like mine, they can’t go shopping for their own gift! I am hoping next year he plans on making up for this year.

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I am not sure if you any of you even remember me posting about this, but when Will was born he had a hole in his heart. The pulmonary veins were also tight around his heart (I think it was something like this), and he had a heart murmur. When he was a little baby, we had to bring him in to be checked by the pediatric cardiologist. At that time, we were told that everything looked fine and that he would probably outgrow it. He was suppose to have a follow up in December, and bad mommy here forgot (you know they make Phentermine without a prescription now — you’d think they made me a drug that could help me remember important things like scheduling follow up visits!).  Well, we went today.  Good news though!  Everything looks great.  The hole closed up, the arteries are now normal, and the only thing we still have is a heart murmur.  However, I guess 50% of all children have this sort of murmur, and they outgrow it.  All in all, it was a good day.

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We had an exciting end of the week. On Thursday, Madison graduated from preschool! They came in and said the Pledge of Allegiance and then sang God Bless America. They also sand the Graduation Song, Hokey Pokey, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Rainbow Song, Bend and Stretch, Do Your Ears Hang Low?, Teddy Bear, The Turtle Song, He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands, and It’s a Small World. Yes, they really did sing that many songs. Granted, they all didn’t start and stop at the same time, but it was the effort that counted. It was super cute.

Now, these next two pictures are from when they called her name get her diploma. Yes, they gave them diplomas!

The teachers also kept a folder of all their work, so we could see how they progressed through the school year. We also got some photos that they had taken throughout the year too. Mommy and Daddy were extremely proud of her and picked her up a couple of things:

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We have had a lot of progress this week. Right now, they are framing out the basement. However, we are still trying to figure out where to put a bathroom. I have a really low ceiling and we have beams that are seriously in the way. The HVAC guy is coming tonight, so we should have some of our ductwork redone shortly too. Here’s what we are looking like:

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