Sunday, January 27, 2008

Mama's little helper

For the last couple of weeks, we've been preparing to pain our house. The first phase in this project has been to remove all of the wallpaper throughout the house - a task that the previous owners of this house made quite difficult by painting over the wallpaper. But the work went much faster with Ethan's help. He had is own tool, a spatula similar to Mom's scraper, that he would tap the wall with, copying Mom.

After we finished the walls in the hall, we attacked the bedroom, which the previous owners made even more challenging by taking off some of the wallpaper before they painted. This made our project a guessing game as to whether we were taking off wallpaper or just wall. We think we got all of the wallpaper off, as you can see below.
Ethan loves to play on the stairs. When he is playing downstairs, sometimes he will make a break for it down the hall, wanting to play on the stairs. Of course, Mom and Dad are always supervising (don't call Child Protective Service's please). His newest trick on the stairs is being able to come down the stairs instead of just going up.

The other day, Kyle got a letter in the mail that we thought was pretty funny. Click on it to see what it says in the first paragraph. We're thinking about signing up for it, just for a laugh.

4 comments:

Ryan and Michelle said...

I'm not sure what you had to do to be a candidate for that list, but hopefully it didn't involve any surgery. Although Kylie and Kyle are pretty similair.

Amy and Micheal said...

Go for it Kyle! You would certainly stand out among the crowd. :) Best of luck with the rest of your home project!

Lacey said...

Congratulations Kyle! What an honor to make the women's list of Who's Who! :)

Kristina said...

Kyle, I think your invitation beats my invitation for the Who's Who Among High School students I got last year. :)