So... I got sick of the red kitchen. Actually, I never liked it it in the first place, but I was 5 months pregnant when I painted it and still had 3 rooms to paint before Addi was born after moving into a new house. It took three days to paint the 4 to 5 awful burnt red coats that looked so chic on the tiny paint chip. I kept thinking to myself "it will look better after the next coat." 
Sigh....it never looked any better after the second coat, so I was wasting my time. Anyway once I was done, I painted our bedroom, Ella's bedroom, and Addison's nursery. Ella's and Addi's rooms both have stripes. Yikes!
I was completely burned out and 9 months pregnant after all of that. Oh yeah, and after Addison was born, I painted the foyer (also with stripes) and the dining room that both have 10 foot ceilings. That was fun. In case you are wondering where Eric was during all of this, he was absent for most of it. He hates painting. It's his one thing, so I usually let him off the hook. He does most of the yard work, does most of the other handy projects, and he's a great poopy diaper changer. I did make him help a little with the girls' rooms (I was 8 and half months pregnant painting the nursery in multicolor stripes...what was I thinking?).
Anywho. Back to the kitchen. I was looking at paint chips (about a billion of them) before painting, and Ella comes in with a "whatcha doin'?" and I said "Mommy really wants a green kitchen." and she said "no, Mommy, green is for boys."
Where do they get this stuff? Well, I picked out a color that, of course, was beautiful on that tiny little 2 inch paint chip called Balsam. Doesn't that sound lovely? It didn't turn out so lovely. It would be if I had white glass-front cabinetry, a white tile backsplash, marble countertops, and stainless steel appliances. In other words, the color is very pretty against white, but my brownish/green laminate countertops, and black appliances, not so much.
I am disappointed, but anything is better than that red. Eventually we will tile the backsplash and get granite in here and then maybe it will work. Until then, we're living with it, just like the red. It wasn't so bad...
YAY! Addison is walking! I also got some pics on the boat...
We did spend lots of time on the beach, too, but I have no pictures to prove it. The girls love the sand and water; it really is a shame we don't live closer to a beach. Addison ate her weight in sand and drank half her weight in saltwater and of course Ella still claims the beach to be her favorite place on Earth (that might change when we go to Disney World) so she was in heaven. Dan and Pat also treated us to an awesome day at Waterville. We had lots of fun even though Ella pretty much reserved herself to the same two foot duckie slide for most of the day. Eric and I rode all the big waterslides and discovered that we're too old for waterslides. The same day we went to Lulu's for dinner and the kids got all sandy and wet, so that was a success. Addison did not even come close to sleeping through the night for the whole four nights - even the day we went to the water park and Lulu's back to back without a nap. She got up five times that night. That's another post all by itself. We still had lots of fun and always look forward to the next visit. Poor Dan and Pat are probably still recovering.
