Update!
1 11 2008
So what happened? Where have we been? Having a baby and working on finishing our house! on August 28th, 2008, 8:35am, Isobel Rayne Collier was born weighing 6lb14oz and was 21″ long. The birth took over 30 hours and I have never been more impressed with my wife’s strength and courage.
Izzy has been home with us now for a month and her and mom are doing very well, she is gaining weight and getting stronger everyday, I don’t doubt she’ll be walking soon! For those who know us and are l;ooking for photos, go see Laine’s facebook page, she does a photo of the day, usually involving Izzy in some way.
On the house front, yesterday I finished the window trims on the outside of the house and the last bit of stucco touch-ups. We decided to go with lime/sand stucco for a finish coat after the clay stucco finish coat failed twice in rainstorms in August. Live and learn I guess. It is a lot more durable but a lot more hazardous as Laine’s mom found out when she got some in her eye and burned her cornea. She recovered with no apparent lasting damage thankfully, but we now treat it with a lot more respect and caution.
The topsoil has been delivered, raked and seeded. We built a shed for storing stuff in, the new wood stove has been installed and the upstairs walls have been slipped inside. Tomorrrow we get our gutters and downspouts and I hope to have the discovery coat done upstairs and the slep downstairs by the end of the week.
It’s nice to be working indoors and making some really good progress on the house, especially when we now have a little one waiting to move to her real home! I promise to be a little more consistant with our updates, especially in a weeks time when we get some highspeed internet at the in-laws to use! So long for now!
