18 Months

Alice is 18 months old!

I can't believe it.

She seems more grown up everyday.

She keeps getting taller, talking more, and figuring things out more.

She LOVES playing outside.

Not sure what she is doing here, probably screaming, she does a ton of that now too.

Don't believe me, here is a little taste of life at my house:

She has learned how to throw the ball for Lilo, so now they are best friends.

Her hair is getting longer and developing into some adorable curls.

She loves our neighbor's dog.

She loves to pick leaves and grass and feed it to the dog through the fence.

I miss my baby, but my toddler sure is a ton of fun. :o)

Built-in Bookcases

So we have a ton of books, no surprise there.

Most of them are Stephen's and are theology or philosophy related.

We have keep them on our set of dark brown ikea bookcases.

We have learned though that ikea furniture was not intended to be moved, and certainly not 4 times.

Each move they have fallen apart more and more.

So because of that, and because we had more books than bookcases,

We decided to built some new bookcases.

We had no idea what we were getting into.

The cost and time was more than we had planned.

I spent about 4 days priming and painting all the pieces in our living room.

I listened to Tale of Two Cities while doing it so it wasn't so bad.

Alice of course was very helpful in the whole process.

The bookcases up with some touch ups left.  

Guess you can call them faux built-ins because we made them so they could be taken apart and be used individually and can come with us when we move.

Organizing the books.

Ok so here is the final before and after.

Before:

After!

Looks amazing right?!

Sadly we still have 6 boxes of books left over.

Mostly my psychology books and Stephen's civil war books and misc.

We left one of the bottom shelves for some of Alice's books.

I think I am going to regret doing that, we probably should have waited till she has learned to put them back.