A Roughen Abode: Pine Hills Neighborhood

Another great thing about our new house is the neighborhood.  It is called Pine Hills, and is nestled in the southeast corner of Buckhead, among many tall, thin pine trees and rolling hills (hence the name...).

Everyone that we have met is very friendly and welcoming.  Many of our neighbors have school aged children, but some are young couples like us, just starting a family or thinking about it.

A great bonus is this great playground in the neighborhood that will certainly be a great place for Tripp to blow off some steam as he grows older.  There are swings and fun slides, and a separate section for toddlers, which is nice when there are lots of bigger (i.e. rougher) kids around.  Below are some photos from a recent visit to the park, where we checked out all the fun things to do there.

Shady Valley Park

Playing in the cool blue tunnel

Watching the "big kids" play in the "big kid" section

Playing in the jungle gym
(side note:  why do they call it that?)

Fun times in Shady Valley Park!  Looking forward to many more to come.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  It is Georgia Tech homecoming, so stay tuned for photos from the Ramblin' Reck parade and other fun festivities.

Meg

A Roughen Abode: Tripp's Big Boy Room!

No, No... you're right if you think that we are NO WHERE near ready to move Tripp out of a crib and into a big boy bed.  However, we have a room all ready for his ultimate transition into a twin bed.  Because no one lives in this room, it has strangely become where Matt and I show our school spirit with all of the Georgia Tech and Virginia "art."

My 81 year old grandmother, Cokey, and her sister, Allene,
slept in these twin beds growing up.  Pretty cool little hand-me-down!

... and a random belated beach photo from this summer --- I share because I wish we were there now!

Tripp & Mom.

Happy Fall, though... Fall's good too...

Meg

A Roughen Abode: Storage Galore!

The one thing I absolutely LOVE about our new place is the insane, borderline-obnoxious amount of built-in storage.  I guess any amount of storage is fabulous when compared to what we had, and completely filled up in our condo.  Every nook and cranny was stuffed with something in that place... but I digress.

Here's just a sampling of the storage that we enjoy these days.

In our hallway,  where all the bedrooms converge, there are two of these matching built in units,
the drawers of which remain completely EMPTY, if you can believe it. Unreal.

In addition to all the "regular" cabinets in our kitchen, there's this nice little
desk area that serves as storage for random things like computer gear,
stationery boxes, extra stemware, and then some.

Mega-oversized storage closet in the semi-finished basement, perfect for all the clutter:
Baby gear, winter clothes & coats, camping equipment, wrapping paper,
christmas junk --- you name it, it goes in here.

Everything has its place  ... and it is glorious!

And... a Tripp photo too!

Happy Hump Day!
Meg

A Roughen Abode: The Dining Room

Since we have very few rooms that are 100% put together, there will not soon be a blog post featuring the whole new house... but, I thought I would feature one room at a time as they get closer to completion.  So, this post features to the fairly complete dining room.

Can you find the baby gate?  

Both the table and china cabinet were my great-grandmothers, and fit perfectly!

And a photo of Tripp, after a bath:

... hope he picked a good one!

Have a good week!
Meg

Babbling Baby in a Bathtub

Just a quick post to capture all the words that Tripp has in his ever-expanding vocab... another one of those boring posts that will be more interesting to me in 5 years than to any of you now (or ever), but thought I would capture while I had the chance.

Words --  Tripp can say (and we think he sort of understands the meaning of) the following words:

• Car
• Nana (banana)
• Walk
• Truck (which sounds dangerously close to a less desirable word...)
• Cheese
• School 
• Peaches 
• TaTa (Thank You)
• Please
• Dot Dog (Hotdog)
• Shoe(s)
• Bee Bee (belly button)
• Baby
• Toes
• Ni-Night
• Uh Oh
• Friday
• Morning
• Ball
• Book
• Dog
• Cat
• Bird
• Bath
• Eat
• Boo Boo (this one is new, not sure where he picked it up)
• WaWa (water, milk, or any liquid in a cup)
• MaMa
• DaDa
• PaPa
• MiMi (his little girlfriend in his class is Mila, he calls her MiMi)
• Several Letters --- A, B, C, and D... and the aforementioned enthusiastic 'Y'
• Outside (in all fairness --- he butchers this word, but we know what he's saying through hand gestures)
• one and two
• Bless You (after you sneeze.. or after he sneezes)
• BooYa (complete with hand motions, thanks to his father)
• Touchdown (with the referee hand motions)
• ... and unfortunately, he has learned "No"  and "Mine" much to our dismay.

 Animal Sounds --- Tripp knows and can somewhat articulate what the following animals say:

• Cat
• Cow
• Dog
• Bird
• Horse
• Sheep
• Duck
• Frog (sort of)

 Body Parts --- he can point out where the following body parts if asked:

• Eyes (sounds like "ice" when he says it, while poking himself in the eye)
• Ears
• Nose (and he sticks his finger about knuckle deep in his nostril)
• Mouth
• Teeth
• Brain
• Belly Button (bee bee)
• Feet
• Toes

And... here's a photo of Tripp in his new, ginormous bathtub in our new house!... can you tell he loves it!?!

Happy hump day!
Meg

Tripp's New digs

Still not 100% finished with the move, but Tripp's room is relatively complete, so I thought I would share.
Hope everyone has a good week!
Meg

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At the Park With Dad

Happy Weekend!
Meg