How Lucky You Are Jocelyn and Ian...And Me:-)

For the past month, Poppa has been hard at work for you both, Jocelyn and Ian, to create a playroom in our basement. We had a 50's style wood paneling area in our basement that Poppa has spent the past 5 weekends from 7-7pm every Saturday and Sunday filling a million holes and seems, sanding them all down and then painting about 5 coats of primer and paint to cover the dark wood and brighten up the room. He has also been drilling some seriously aggressive holes in the cement that are our walls to run cable and electrical cords. He was worried a few times when the drill started to shoot sparks and the room started to smell like burnt wood but he finished the job! He removed cabinet shelves in order to paint and then had to replace them. He also spent an entire day painting heating pipes to avoid having to enclose them in with wall board, which now surprisingly blend into the rest of the room. After the first couple of weekend days, Poppa would head downstairs thinking he only had a few things left to do and every weekend day, I would eventually have to come down the basement stairs at around 6:30pm to tell him that you were waiting for your tubby time.

Pepere has added his handiwork to the room by learning how to put a banister on the stairs, walling in an already semi-enclosed tv cabinet, and framing out a couple of doors. It was pretty amazing to see your Poppa and Pepere working together this weekend to frame in the remaining door (and the cat door within the door) and put the finishing touches on, what I have to say, is a pretty cool little playroom for you both. Poppa was certainly glad to have the job mostly finished Sunday afternooon and proceeded to fall asleep on the floor while you, Jocelyn, crawled around on top of him. I regret not having taken before pictures but as soon as the carpet is in, which goes in tomorrow, and the furniture is in place, I will post some pictures to show the fantastic job that your Poppa did for you!! And, of course, many, many thanks to Pepere for his help as well!!