100 Day Project: Day 46-61

Check out Day 46 - 61

The last two weeks have been alot of fun. Malaika is smiling and chatting so much more. She's also holding her head up alot more as she meets many of her aunts, uncles and cousins on the Dugaw side.

100 Day Project: Day 31-45

I want my mummy!

Malaika is two months old and growing like a weed. She is currently 12lbs 3.2oz and 22.5" long. She's eating like her daddy and sleeping like her mummy. We've enjoyed getting to know our little one and look forward to many of you meeting her someday.

Check out day 31-45.

100 Day Project: Day 18-30

Malaika will be 6-weeks old on Tuesday.

Enjoy Day 18-30 by clicking here

100 Day Project: Day 1-17

Check out pictures from the first 17 days.

100 Day Project

As of June 1st I have decided to do a 100 day project that requires me to take a photograph of one subject for that period of time. This is not an easy project to accomplish, I have many friends that have attempted to do it and they usually give up by around day 40. Projects that I have heard of people doing are they take photographs of the colour white, flowers or maybe just a paperclip in random places.

My 100 day project will end on September 8th and my subject is Malaika, my daughter. I have choosen an easy subject, it's one that I love dearly, she's not going anywhere and how much fun is it to see how much she will change in those 100 days.

I will NOT be posting pictures everyday, however you will get 10-15 day bundles to view.

Malaika Quinn - 100 Day Project

It's a Girl

Malaika Quinn

May 22nd, 2007 at 10:00pm

Seattle, WA.

8lbs 14oz, 19 3/4" long

Remodel 7

Take a tour of the completed portion of the remodel. Along with the bedrooms and bathroom the attic was completed, didn't take a picture but it does look good.

We have about 10% left to be completed, this includes the mirror and blinds for the downstairs bathroom, blinds for the hallway and babies room, pictures on the walls, repairs to the upstairs bathroom, cabinetts and clearing out of the garage.

Our new bedroom

Our new bathroom (still waiting for the mirror)

Pillows on futon were all handmade by Gramee (Donna Dugaw)


Our baby room

Happy Mother's Day

As a pending mother I would like to wish all the mothers out there a Happy Day.

Remodel 6a

The living room floors are complete. What do we have left to do? Well, the bathroom downstairs still needs a countertop, faucets and a toilet. The attic needs a ladder and floor boards and the upstairs bathroom needs all of it's plumbing redone and the bathtub needs a new finish. We have moved into the downstairs bedroom and the babies room is on it's way to being ready.

We emptied our storage unit and we currently have all of our "stuff" in the garage. That's a bit of a headache but we are hoping that we can get everything in it's place in the next week or two.

I've attached a picture of me, sorry it's taken me so long to get one up on the blog. Not a great picture, took it myself without a tripod.

37 weeks

Remodel 6

We're not done yet. As you can see we had to live in the living room for about 1-week while they put carpet in the office, babies room, downstairs bedroom and hallway along with painting the nursary. What do you think of the colour? It's Dill Pickle.

So as of today, we have moved into our new room downstairs, which we love, and we've moved back into the office. The downstairs bathroom still has some work to be done to it and this week I will be moving out as we are refinishing the hardwood floors in the living room. Yes, it went from very full to empty in one day. We're about 2-weeks from being finished and I'm 4-weeks from my due date. The nursary is currently storing everything from the living room and I can only hope and pray that I will be actually fixing up that room next weekend.

We were living in a studio (our living room) for a while

The bathroom is coming along

The garage got new cabinets

The downstairs bedroom now has carpet

The office also got new carpet, I wish I had painted it

The babies room got new carpet and a new paint job

Remodel 5a

I've got colour on my walls and I love it. Check it out, the hallways are Alaskan Skies, the bedroom is Cotswald and the bathroom is Meadow Trail . The vanity will be installed in the bathroom tomorrow along with the garage cabinets, the bathroom fixtures should go in sometime next week. The shower doors will be installed in about two weeks along with the carpet. At that point we move it to the upstairs. I wasn't too sure when we were going to get to this point...whew!

Remodel 5

We're getting really close to being finished with the downstairs. The bathroom has been tiled, the walls have been primed, the trim and doors are up and the new window has been installed.

Next week the bathroom will be grouted, the walls will be painted, the vanity and bathroom fixtures will be installed as well as the garage cabinets.

Things are looking good and we seem to be on track for completion.

Pictures - Bedroom, hallway (linen closet) and bathroom

Remodel 4

It was a week of dry walling. From hanging, to mudding, to drying, to sanding. Next up, the painter (see samples below). I'm having a hard time finding the right colour for the bathroom - greens to the right. The babies room is all set - two colours in the middle and the bedroom and hallways are in the light beige colour scheme - colours to the left. Again, I could use my sisters help with this one. Oh well, back to the colour board.

Welcome to our remodel



Bathroom

Bedroom

Bedroom

Remodel 3

Our insulation is now in. For all those Jamaicans out there, that means that the place will be nice and warm in the winter and it makes the place amazingly quiet. Plus, it should help save us some money on our electrical bill. With the insulation in olace the rooms actually look like rooms. Next week, the Sheetrock will go up and I can check out my paint samples.

30-Weeks

Can you imagine I only have 10 more weeks to go. The little person inside of me likes to move around mainly in the mornings and late evenings. It's been fun watching my belly move in all sorts of directions. We've been told by the majority of people in the states that it's a boy and when we were home, in Jamaica, we were told by the majority that it's a girl. Tim's guess is a puppy. Only the big guy and possibly my doctor knows what we're having.

No doubt I am getting bigger, I have put on about 19lbs which means I'm on track to put on about 30lbs by the end of this pregnancy. The required amount of weight is 25-30lbs so I'm feeling okay with where I'm at. At the beginning of the pregnancy I didn't want to be around sugar. All of a sudden, I'm craving it worse than ever before. This is something I'm going to be watching over these final two months.

To think that I'm approaching my 8th month, it has certainly started to slow itself down and with my sleep pattern and back aches, I was hoping this was going to be the fast part.

I promise to post a picture, so if you get here before I do, check back later.

Remodel 2b

The deck is complete. Yeah, one project down about 50 more to go. Martin has done a wonderful job with it. We weren't sure about the colour but it turned out really nicely. The deck can now hold more than one without feeling like it's going to collapse...party!

Check out the electrical work in Remodel 2a

Remodel 2a

The following are pictures of pure confusion. It's a big job, the entire downstairs is being rewired. We even had to move the panel on the outside of the house. The first picture shows some of the plumbing - red tube for hot water and blue tube for cold water.

Hot and cold water for the washing machine and sink

Don't ask me, I just hope somebody knows what's going on

Our new panel