March Happenings

 A few happenings in March...

Gigi loves cracking all the ice outside

my cute blue-eyed boy

One of Liam's favorite things to do: climb into the shoe crate and dump all the shoes out!

These are those days

Home Tour: Bathroom

Our Bathroom is done for now. Eventually we want to replace all the tile and remove the beadboard but that is sometime down the road. It's hard to see from the pics, but the beadboard just isn't that nice. It had a lot of gaps and cracks that I filled in with caulk. So with a few updates and fresh paint we are making the bathroom work for us now. Here's what it looked like BEFORE:

I didn't like the dark brown color on the walls, it just made the bathroom feel smaller. And when you have a small bathroom to begin with... well it just wasn't working. I knew that I wanted to use yellow and grey so I first painted the walls a light yellow. #EpicFail #WhatWasIThinking

As you can see, that color was not working at all. It just dated the room and made it feel dingy. So I painted it again and this time went with White Dove by Benjamin Moore. Here's the AFTER:

With all the white going on in the room, it needed some contrast. So I decided to paint the medicine cabinet grey to break it up a bit.

The yellow and grey towels are from Restoration Hardware and are so nice and soft (fyi, they have a great color selection). The restroom sign is from Schoolhouse Electric and so is the towel hook.

The shower curtain is from West Elm. I'm a big fan of stripes; stripes are always welcome. :)

I wanted to add some wood to the space to warm it up a bit so the crate shelving was a perfect solution. I bought the crates from Home Depot for about $13 each and stained them.

The accessories are from Home Goods and West Elm and the Fox Print I got here.

Another update I made was to the grout. It was yellowed and in need of help. I did some research and found out about Grout Renew. You basically paint over the existing grout, which took a day a week. But for only $12 it was well worth the time spent. Just look how icky our grout was...

Here's a BEFORE shot:

And AFTER:

I made the yellow felted billy balls and put them in a vintage milk glass vase that was my grandmothers.

I also made the curtain using this fabric. The pattern tied the yellow and grey together quite nicely. :)

So that's it! It is a small bathroom, but since Adam and I get ready at different times of the day it works for us. Eventually I'd like to change out the sconces so let me know if you have any ideas! Hope you enjoyed the tour. :)

Bath Buddies

These two just love taking baths together and playing in the tub. Gigi has always been a little cautious of the water, even when she was little. She still hates to get water in her eyes. And Liam just loves the water and splashes away. They have a lot of fun at bath time!

Eleven Months Old (Liam's Monthly Photo)

Liam turned eleven months old on March 11th.

Liam has turned into a little copycat. He especially loves to mimic Gigi whenever she coughs or blows raspberries. He loves music and loves to dance along to it. He is a really good little eater and recently he wants to eat whatever we have. He loves to play with his big sister and always wants whatever toy she has, which of course causes a lot of little tiffs between them. But Gigi has been a nice big sister and it's good for her to learn to share. Liam is such a joy and such a sweet little boy. Here are his monthly photos...

Liam found his sticker at the end of the shoot, so of course he had to rip it off!