Projects and milk update

I talked to a lactation consultant yesterday and have renewed hope that I will be able to continue nursing my little Reagan. Things seem to be a little better and I have been able to let go of the worry, which is so important because stress can have quite a negative impact on milk supply. She is getting enough to eat although she doesn't always seem satisfied. I think things are going to get better from here.

Last weekend we got so many things accomplished! We bought 2 window unit A/Cs from Costco and installed them. They were 230$ each (after 20$ mail-in-rebate) and they work great to cool the downstairs. One is in the living room and one in the office so they can work together to cool the large space. We are going to deal with the upstairs as needed later on.

Allen offered to help us with our fence which was a Godsend. It would have taken us forever to get it done while juggling the 2 kids. Plus he brought tools and his ideas. It was a long day but it is done! I am really happy with how it turned out and I can't wait to let some Wisteria vine growing up to the lattice. It is so much more private feeling and keeps our dogs from completely terrorizing our neighbors.


The other project was to move the piano to the garage and rearrange our office/play room. This of course, involved renting piano dollies are borrowing our neighbor Ben to help move it. It went really well; they wheeled it out the front door, around to the ally and up into the garage. We want to hang on to the piano (Sharon might want it back? Not sure.) but it is not getting used at all so this was a good solution for now. We really like having 2 desks but also want a nice play area for the girls and the piano took up so much space. It is starting to come together and I am excited to do a chalkboard wall about 3ft tall to finish off the play area. We bought a rug which is so nice to play on. Katya really likes it. She got upset when I returned a rug that was too small. I told her that we needed to buy a new rug and now she likes saying, "new rug."