On The Loose!

Life has been crazy this week for us. With this beautiful spring weather brings spring projects! We had been talking for years about getting new hardwood floors in our dining room and refinishing most of the downstairs' floors. Thanks to tax season, now is the time! I'm super excited but this has been quite the process. Everything has been moved out of the two bedrooms, hallway and dining room and is sitting in either our 3-season porch or living room. Besides the fact that I can't find anything, we're sequestered to the basement, and the house is a mess - we can't access our bathrooms! So, when Mitchell informed me he had to go number two yesterday, I threw the kids in the car and zoomed up to the library up the street to use the public restroom :o) So, we've made it work, but I'm ready to be done showering and getting ready at the gym every day. Tomorrow is the final coat of finish and they'll be done, so Saturday we can have our house back!! I'm really excited, especially now that Dominic is spending more time in his gait trainer, he'll have more room to roam.

New floors in the dining room!

Refinished floors in the 2 bedrooms and hall

Speaking of roaming, Dominic is a man on the loose! His PT put him in the 'Mustang' today and he loved it. He needs to work on using his right foot more because he tends to bump back and forth into walls because he's only pushing with his left foot. But he'll get there and he seems to LOVE being able to move on his own. They're working on getting him a Mustang of his own!

On a totally separate subject, I saw this link about Dr. Arndt and wanted to share it. We just love him and are so happy to see that he's bringing more attention to West Michigan and to DeVos Children's epilepsy program. Mike thinks I should attend the event and I'm thinking about it...

http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/eightwest/Epilepsy--help-for-parents 

We have really been loving this awesome weather. But I'm sure it won't last and we'll be blasted with another blizzard. But, we got Dominic out on his AmTryke tonight for a spin. He loves the tryke but is NOT a fan of the helmet. I guess for now he doesn't need it. It will be a lot of fun to take him out on the tryke this summer.

Yeah for sunshine!

He does NOT like the helmet. I guess flashbacks of his crainial helmet?

Thanks to Curious George, Mitchell was determined to make
an automatic car wash for his cars and trains

Mom with her Dom

This weekend we're home the boys will be cheering me on while I run the Irish Jig. Should be a gorgeous weekend for a race! Then we are hoping to feed Mitchell's obsession with Dr. Seuss and take him to see the Grand Rapids symphony's production of Green Eggs and Ham. Saturday night Mike and I have a date...sort of. We are going to a Laughfest event with some people from work. Should be a lot of fun.