January 2012 Archives

Now that the outer shell of the house is pretty much nailed down, they're been focusing on the innards.  The cabinets are all in, their respective countertops placed, and they got all the tile work done this past week.

Seeing the patterns we worked out so many months ago with our designer finally come to life is so cool.  Sure, it seems neato bandito scrawled out on a piece of paper like this:

But that's just nothing like seeing this:

And in the kitchen:

Here's our beautiful master bedroom bay window:

And they laid the driveway, too:

Now it's getting hard to wait for the move-in date!

We went to a 3D ultrasound place this past week, ClearView Ultrasound in Austin.  We were wondering if our Little One is going to have my Italian nose or Serene's cute little Chinese nose.

As we were sitting in the waiting room filling out the paperwork and awaiting our turn, there was this strangely hypnotic music playing that seemed to be hand-bell renditions of various Green Day songs.  (It sounded like synthesized hand-bells, not real ones.) 

We snooped around a bit and found that it was an album by Rockabye Baby.  And they had several other selections there too, Coldplay, Bon Jovi, Nine Inch Nails, etc.  I'm really not sure what to think about all that...

 
Apparently since Serene is so tiny, the baby doesn't have much room to move around, or so saith the nurse.  I have a hard time grasping that.  It seems to me that the baby will make whatever room he needs.  At any rate, Little Lo was snugged in his breech position all nice and cozy.
In this first clip we started in 2D and watched the baby smack his lips, then switched over to 3D to see him with his hands in his face.  I sleep like that sometimes too.


In the second clip, we again started in 2D and switched to 3D.  I sped up the 3D section a bit so it wouldn't be 1 frame per second for 5 minutes of a sleeping baby.  For this one I was singing Istanbul is Constantinople by They Might Be Giants to try to get him to move around.  He wiggled and kicked, but didn't move his head very much.  Sometimes comfort supersedes any dancing urges.

The stone and brickwork has been finished.  It's so beautiful!  Pics:
I took another shot of the left side to better show the graduated stonework over the foundation. To recap: There's a rule in the Circle C HOA that there can't be more than some number of inches of concrete foundation exposed, so we get some extra brick work down over part of the foundation, making the whole house look taller.

And here's what the back of the house looks like with all that brick and masonry slapped on it:

They've also put in all the cabinets in the bathrooms and kitchen, and added most of the inside doors, along with the door and window trims and baseboards.  It's starting to look a bit like a house in there.