buttons and whatnot

The girl is loving the "button movie". Every night after dinner she has to watch it,several times. She is now trying to recreate it with her buttons while humming the little movie tune.
Our neighborhood is along the path of a large St. Patrick's Day parade route and when I was little my cousin and I used to always go. Since we've moved back here, Ryan and I have yet to go. We thought this year we would-maybe Keely would get a kick out of it. But when we got up at 8:00am our neighbors (the pool ones) already had about 20 people in their yard, all clad in green, holding beer bottles, and hooting and whooting. Oh boy.Other folks were staggering around carrying coolers and the infamous red plastic cups. We changed our minds. The parade isn't so much about the family or the kids anymore- it is more about the youngins' (not me, I'm SO old) getting plastered and going nuts. So we stayed home and cleaned & rearranged our study and Ryan built my table! We just need a piece of countertop or something not hideous for the top of it and it's done. Awesome.
One half of the room -not finished, but cleaned up. That bookshelf was a disaster. I realize a before and after shot would be more effective, but I do not have one. So sorry. More to come.