Week 4

Today completed the 4th week of construction and much of the inside work began today. For a while it looked like progress was slow. Once the walls and roof were complete, it looked like everything stopped. It didn't though and the crew worked diligently installing insulation in the walls, ceiling and on the foundation and installing the electrical.

The first inside work is installing the new can lights in the kitchen. That meant tearing into the ceiling and, well, it seems that we will be without a kitchen from now until the project is done. We could still use it, but it is going to be a mess. Most everything is covered in a thin layer of dust. Just enough so that you know you should clean everything off before you use it. They have also begun putting up the drywall.

In the next few days, we expect they will begin tearing out the wall between the kitchen and the breakfast nook. We have been held up by our new door, which has not been delivered.

The contractors found old newspaper in the walls and ceiling. Not sure why it was there, insulation perhaps. It is very brittle but I was able to find a date on one page - 1933! - which is right around the time the house was built!

BoGo Update

Tomorrow is 31 weeks! It has been a while since the last post on the BoGos. So here goes.

Here are the ultrasound pictures from the doctors visit on the 18th. The top one is Baby A (a.k.a Go) and the bottom one is Baby B (a.k.a. Bo). Mother and babies are doing really well. Bo measured in at 3 lbs and Go measured in at 3 lbs 4 oz.

Both girls seem to be very active and we often spend the evening watching Laura's belly as the duke it out. Laura is sure that Bo flipped over the other night, which would be a good thing because at the last ultrasound we found out that she is now breach.

Laura is holding up like a real trooper. She is a little worried about summer and being to hot. I have assured her that extra air conditioning is in the budget.

We head back the the doctor on Monday June 2nd.

Progress!

Week 2

We are now well into our second week of construction (really only 8 working days) and the contractors have already started framing the addition. As you can see from the picture they have about half of the floor done. Our contractor, Mike Foster really seems to be keeping the project moving.

Good thing because Laura is due in just over 12 weeks or only 9 weeks since full term with twins is considered 37 weeks.

We are really excited about prospect of having our new kitchen and family room done. Washing dishes by hand is getting a little old.

Additions

So, with just a little under 3 months until the new additions arrive, we have decided to put on another new addition. These pictures show the progression over the last week. Wednesday we came home and the porch was gone. Thursday found a big hole in our back yard. No turning back now....