When you enter the house, the staircase is immediately in front of you, with the fancy chandelier dropping from the tall ceilings. The front stairs meet with the kitchen stairs curve up to the 4 bedrooms. Counter-clockwise, you enter the "blue bedroom", which leads through to a dual-sink, "Jack-&-Jill full bathroom", (not pictured), which connects to another neutral colored bedroom (not pictured). The "master suite" has the aqua walls, and leads through to a full bath with dual-sinks, jacuzzi tub, (maybe shower), and walk-in closet. The guest room with in-suite, full bath is not pictured. 

 

Going clockwise from the front door, you enter the "red room" with wooden floors, then proceed into the "dining room", then enter the kitchen- where'll you'll see a section of stairs that connects to main stairs up. The kitchen is fully wrap around, with stainless steel appliances, a TV cable, 2 sinks and the eat-in area with the giant windows behind it. If you turn left of the dinner table, you enter the "red study", if you turn right out of kitchen, you enter the family room area with fireplace. Continue walking, you'll pass the wet bar on left, stairs down on right. Keep walking and the hall to left takes you to half bath room and laundry room with double sinks. Then the 3-car garage.

In order to get our Sony HandyCam to work on our Mac, we had to upgrade to the new Snow Leopard OS and the iLife '09 suite. The OS takes 4 GB but is really neat and its great to have the camera finally work. If you found this page, use these links to click through- if you buy it through my links, I get 4% back. It's about $5 more at Mac and Best Buy. 

I was hesitant to spend the money on this one, but boy am I glad I did!! The Baby Einstein Baby Neptune Ocean Adventure Gym continues to be one of the most used, best toys we have. The reason this playmat is FAR better than the rest because it comes with a toy that plays music and lights up (see the white triangular toy suspended between the blue poles). The quality of the dangling toys and mat are great... I usually dangle whatever toys are handy and alternate them anyhow- but the music/light toy is AWESOME entertainment and even has a few modes, including one that changes the song when it is moved/shaken. When he was younger, he enjoyed watching and listening to it, and now that he can crawl, he climbs beneath it and likes to shake it to change the songs.

This is a total must-have.

Wondering how to keep your newborn happy in the crib? The Infantino Sunny Sunshine Crib Toy will amuse both of you. This was recommended by a friend that is a nanny and thankfully I got one! The singing toy with dancing lights is easy to attach to crib, simple to turn on and continues to play a nice tune for awhile. I replaced it with a mobile when the baby turned about 4 months but still used it on the floor and put it back in the crib once I lowered the mattress for an older baby. He still loves it! 

 We LOVE the Fisher-Price Laugh & Learn Fun with Friends Musical Table.  It is easy to alternate from the essential OFF mode to 4 audio modes: English, Spanish, music/song and assorted noises. There are 4 main stations around the corners, but even the little toys in between make cute little noises or move or something. Currently, the baby is playing with the toy on the floor but I like the one day, I can add the four blue legs and have a table. I would absolutely recommend this table and even bought another one for a gift.