What happened to Summer?

I can't believe it is almost Labor Day weekend. It seems like just yesterday it was the 4th of July! Obviously, our summer has flown by.

I did manage to go on a few field trips with Chloe's class. Here are some pics from the Zoo in early July.

This is me, Chloe, her friend Sophie and her teacher Joanna leaving the zoo.

We are almost done with Chloe's new room. They finished painting it yesterday, and there contractor has a few final touches (door handle and the like) and it will be done. We are going to move Chloe up there this weekend. The house project has taken a lot of work. Craig painted Chloe's room, her shelves and our new TV cabinet. Craig also painted a magnetic board on one side of her room so she can play with magnets and use it to hang art work and things when she is older.

We are in a bit of a rush to get things moved around since Ghislaine is coming to visit the Wednesday after Labor day. So we need to move our bed back upstairs, get the new bed (yeah!) for the downstairs bedroom all set up, reset up our newly fixed computer in the downstair and do something with all the junk in the upstairs bedroom that now needs a home. So Labor day weekend might mean a bit of labor in the Black household :-)

Budget Blinds just came to install the blinds today. Unfortunately, they measured for the blinds before they installed the new window, so the blind doesn't fit. HUGE waste of $$. Rats. So we'll find out what the damage is tommorrow. Not very budgety!

I'm trying to decide on a rug for her room as well .. so I think Chloe and I may do a little rug shopping on the way home from school today.

This is also Chloe's last week of school. We have loved her teachers this year, Rebecca and Joanna, and her sweet little Moon room. There were only 7 children a day and often 4 teachers at a time. You can't beat that kind of attention at a day care. She has 3 1/2 weeks off before she goes back to school. When she returns, she'll be in a new classroom with 12 children this time. Fortunately, she'll know most of the children and one of her teachers, Rebecca, is also moving up with her.

So while Chloe is out of school, one of the student teachers from her classroom will be watching her 3 days a week and I will be taking Mondays & Fridays off to spend time with her too.

We have fun plans for the Labor day weekend .. we'll go to the Oregon State Fair one day and perhaps to the Coast another day. And hopefully I'll get a chance to post some pictures and maybe even a little video after that.

Have you been watching the Democratic convention? We missed most of the Olympics due to not having a TV set up while we are in the midst of the construction, and I suspect we'll miss most of the Convention as well. However, Craig has taught Chloe the "Obama Bump" and Chloe is supporting "Obmama" as she call him.