Progress

So we are making progress on fixing the damage in our basement. Ernie put new insulation in the walls, and new sheet rock up. Here's how it looks now:

We still need to work on the floor. Only part of the basement needs new carpet, so we wanted to try to match it to the non-damaged section. The carpet in there now is a basic off-white berber that the original homeowners put in last year before we bought the house. You think that would make it easy to find the exact same carpet. Nope. So far we have been to four different stores looking for a match, including the place where the carpet actually came from. No one has it. Apparently it was discontinued in January. Because of that, we are thinking about installing laminate flooring instead.

In other news, here's a little video of Samuel after he ate (and LOVED) chocolate ice cream. Apparently the way to get him to eat a healthy dinner each night (i.e. not just pretzles and cheese, although personally I like that dinner menu) is to bribe him with dessert. He likes this idea so much that the other morning at breakfast he told me that if he ate all of his pancakes he could have a marshmallow. Nice try, kid.