Living in the Rain

There are certain things that come with living in Oregon. One of them is rain, lots and lots of it. And, while this winter certainly has been one of the easier (and by easier I mean less rain) ones since we have lived here there have still been bouts of heavy rain for a few days straight. One day I walked into the boys room to find this - it's the paint ballooning out, full of water. We called maintenance and very very looong story short...

...this is how that room looks now:

Actually it has drywall back on it today. Throughout that day that I found the balloon and that weekend, the walls got wet, the carpet became quite wet, and the smell was awful It has been over two weeks since we have been able to go in that room. We've had to go through the rounds with the housing department and UO environmental health. Turns out there was a leak (I'm still not sure if they know if it's from the roof or the siding) upstairs and our neighbor up there was flooded as well. They had to check for mold in the walls and everything and Isaac had to force them to get going on all this. So, the boys have been sleeping next to each other on the floor in the little middle room and people have been coming in and out practically everyday. Most of our stuff from that room is in our little hallway. I didn't think our apartment could get smaller, but it has. I guess this should teach me to not complain about what I have! At least when we get to move back in there our apartment will suddenly seem bigger and we'll have a full hallway to walk down and the boys will have somewhere to play other than the living room and a bed to sleep in - it will be so nice. I really hope it's soon.

Despite that damper we've had some fun. We managed to dye Easter eggs:

Taking a break from the Easter egg dying. No pants on - a normal sight. And look at all those fingerprints on that door...

We had an impromptu hunt around here. The guys filled the eggs.

Easter morning was pretty simple, but it was a good day to remember what is important!

In the chaotic scramble that always happens before church we got this picture.

Emry is quite smiley. I love it.

Just a day of getting out of the bath and wearing just underwear and a way-too-small dragon costume all day doing puzzles and reading books.

The weather was great on Saturday and, sadly, the bike Kason has been using that belongs to no one - we call it the community bike that we use- disappeared for good. Amazingly, we found a decent one for cheap on craigslist. Bikes aren't the easiest thing to come by in this town. So, Kason got one without training wheels and Asher got one thrown in as well.

Kason has...a ways to go in the no training wheels area. I just about died laughing at Isaac trying to keep him upright as they were going along the sidewalk. It is alot harder than I thought it would be!

Asher caught on to pedaling within the day. Actually he knew he could get away with pulling it in to the house and figuring out how to pedal in the living room while I was feeding Emry.