18 Weeks

18 Weeks...and I am...pregnant. (Especially when I wear this specific shirt!) 

Things are moving (literally and figuratively) in the Hockemeyer household. Baby H #2 came to the party in the last 2 weeks, I can feel lots of moving these days. Boxes and bags of items are also moving, moving their way right out of the house and right into the nearest Goodwill. 

We had some drywall repairs completed last week so we moved most of Tyler's toys which had previously inhabited our main 1st floor living space into the basement. At first, he stood in the middle of the floor looking around (since the big move happened at bedtime), I can only imagine him saying what happened to all my stuff?! But then he carried on playing with the small basket of toys we left for him and has been perfectly content with said small basket for almost a week. It kind of makes me re-think his toys...and the presence of so many of his toys! I've been doing some research about simple solutions for toy rotation & storage so we can change things up a bit...

Anyway, this morning we finished a big move of pretty much all of the items on our 1st floor to prepare for the painters who arrived promptly at 8am! Tyler and I are escaping to a friends house until Wednesday while the house is a painting zone...full of fumes and wet paint that a toddler would love to destory explore. We didn't get any before pictures so there's no turning back. We vetoed (but considered) Sherwin Williams Anew Gray but then picked one of their most popular colors- Kilim Beige- so it can't go wrong, can it?!