Improvements

Last night Nina and I took Lilly back to the dr. The poor little girl is still fighting the bilirubin battle. The Doctor gave us several possibilities as to why this is dragging on for so long. One of them is called Breastmilk Jaundice. It is apparently a low risk but persistent issue. The treatment is to stop breastfeeding for a period of time and then the level apparently drops off and doesn't rise again. Poor Nina and Lilly. Today has been very confusing for Lilly and very frustrating for Nina. She can't wait for tonight to get here so she can make Lilly a happy baby again. Lilly is NOT a fan of formula. Nina says she keeps looking at her like "What is this and why are you trying to make me eat it?" She has been spewing the smelly stuff all over all day.
Her level did drop today and will hopefully continue downward.

In other news, we have done a few things to the house.
First, the front windows have been replaced and the inside and outside looks so much better. The big payoff will hopefully come with a lower oil bill this winter. The old ones were single pane.
Then Tim installed a new storm door. We are hoping that it will also improve the insulation in the house.
I have also been painting the basement. We haven't done it since we moved in and it was just a plain white. Laura and I went to Home Depot and picked out a couple of what we thought were complimentary colors. The base is a taupe and for the accents something called "Sweet Georgia Brown." It is a really pretty brown on the sample. Well, when I got it home and started putting it on the walls I could see that there is just no way that we are calling it brown. It really is a kind of an Olive green. I am ok with it, however, because we are now fully immersed in the Scouting program and the colors have "scouts" written all over them. Bosco is not amused.

I am almost done with the basement and then I am going to get to work on the hallway upstairs. It is really nasty!
Hmm...wonder what color I will end up painting it?