Alice is blue.

In the Palm House today, we celebrate two latest and greatest achievements...one is blue and the other a toilet!

You'll notice that to get to the point where we could install a toilet inside the house, we had to first, finish the bathroom tiled floor, and second, finish painting the wall behind the toilet. Yeah! This means that Andy was free to take on the next major bathroom challenge...tiling the bath surround...

We're doing classic craftsman bungalow style subway tile, offset like brick, and we'll add in a glass tile detail at the top (the same glass as is in the floor of the bathroom). Projected date of completion? Oh, 4 more days or so.

So what have we been doing since the last post? A whole lot of painting. While the painting party was invaluable, we couldn't imagine how long this took. Every day we plod towards the finish line. The day that we can move in. Painting the front room, the living room, blue was a huge indicator that we're really really close. Here's a pic of the first coat.

Trust me, it looks really good in real life. Though the color is dark, it's offset on three of the four walls by a large window or the opening to the room. And, the upper section and ceiling is white (as is the molding).

While we were hard at work today, Pili and Alice watched over us. Pili curled up in a little ball, and Alice decided to play with paint. If you look closely, you can see a patch of blue on her side. At one point today, I looked behind me to see little Alice looking up at me with her sweet little face, as she sat on the ground and leaned up against the freshly painted blue wall. Oh silly dog.

In other news, Dad nearly completed putting together our IKEA kitchen cabinets. Tomorrow we'll start hanging them. Appliances are right around the corner. Kitchen, here we come!

On a personal note, I'm entering my 34th week of pregnancy!