Christian fed the girls while I made my way down to the basement right away to clean up the living room, playroom and laundry room - and at least get the spare room in a state that you could actually enter it. I finished up just as the appraiser showed up to complete our modification appraisal. It didn't take him long. Turns out, he actually appraised the house when we bought it, so he didn't have to take measurements or anything. He was in an out pretty quickly, and hoped to get the appraisal in by Tuesday. Fingers crossed! It sounded like the appraisal really doesn't matter in the end - it's just a formality of the process, but we can't move forward until it's done, so LET'S GO!
Next up, we all got ready and headed to IKEA. One of our tasks this weekend is to make some good progress on the basement makeover. We have the TV hanging now, so we needed a new table to go underneath it. Of course, IKEA had just what we were looking for. We also grabbed some lunch while we were there - turns out they had a special "eat for free" thing going on this weekend - whatever you spent on lunch, was taken off your total purchase. So, yay for free lunch :)
After shopping, we dropped Olivia off at my mom's for the night, and Amelia passed right out in the car, and took a good nap once we got home. Christian ran to his parents house to get some tools, and we started putting together the new table. Now, anybody who has shopped at IKEA knows how ridiculous their "instructions" are, so that took longer than expected. I ended up having to take a break from the building to take Amelia over to Urgent Care. She still wasn't acting quite herself, and I decided to just make sure she didn't have an ear infection. Better safe than sorry. Her ears, lungs and mouth were all clear and fine. So, it's just another goofy virus. Funny enough, about an hour after we got home, she seemed right as rain, and we never had another issue. Perfect timing...
We ended up getting a "floating" table, so after we finished putting it together, we had to mount it, and on top of that, get all of the TV, cable box and DVD player cords run behind the wall/table. Turned out to be a much more time consuming project than I imagined! Christian's friend ended up coming over to help us out, and I eventually escaped to bed. Ha. In the end, they got it up, and it looks great! And, it was rainy and gross out all day anyway, so it was good way to pass the day :)
Today's Photo a Day in May is 12 O'Clock. So here it is...noon, strolling through IKEA, and midnight, still hard at work...
I also snapped a picture of the girls trying out their umbrellas before out shopping trip :)
Finally - Amelia turned 22 months old today. I cannot believe she's going to be 2 in 2 months! Whoa. She is turning into quite the diva, with a lot of attitude to boot. She has such a vibrant personality, it's just crazy. She talks more and more every day, and is becoming her own person with every passing day. It's so fun to watch!
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