Here's what our Saturday looks like.

We're finally redoing our nasty bathroom. Basically we gutted it and we're starting from scratch. Stephan's working on the plumbing under the house right now. We have a raised foundation so there's less than 2 feet of space underneath our entire house. Here's the underneath of our house. Weird, uh? This is an optical illusion because it makes it look so spacious.

When we ripped up the floor, there was five layers of flooring all on top of the original subfloor: black and white checkered linoleum, yellow flower linoleum, plywood, green and yellow linoleum and then more plywood. Ugh. It was seriously disgusting. There was termite and water damage in the subfloor so we have to replace most of that, hence the big hole.

Stephan invited the girls down with him. 

Penny went down first. Ginger's excitedly waiting for her turn. Penny's standing on the ground here, just to give you an idea of just how cramped it is down under.

Then Ginger.

We should have put Jake down there because he's the only one who doesn't mind crawling around. He's such a perfect baby. He was playing in his room all by himself during all the excitement. 

Penny the Graduate

Penny's part of a pre-school program at the high school and they had a graduation ceremony this weekend. Initially I was skeptical about a silly, little pre-school graduation. But I'll be honest, it was the sweetest thing I've ever seen. Each of the high school students picked a pre-schooler and shared a few things about them. Penny's favorite teacher, Mac, said lots of nice things about Penny. Of course, I cried.

As they marched these little kids out onto the stage, Penny never smiled once. I don't know why she was so stoic. It's like she thought she needed to be serious while on stage. Even as Mac was sharing some funny inside jokes between her and Penny, Penny never cracked a smile. She just stood there all somber. Maybe she was nervous.  The ironic thing about Penny "graduating" from pre-school is that she'll be in the same program again this fall.

This is Penny and Ginger before the ceremony. Sometimes they really like each other.

This is Mac sharing some sweet things about Penny. 

It's almost like she's trying not to smile.

 

 Here's Penny looking at who knows what.