Well, friends I am super excited. We have a solar roof!!! Some of you may know that we signed up (and put a deposit down) for a Tesla solar roof on day one of the announcement… which was before Julius was born… over 4 years ago. We knew we were going to have to wait, so that is why we are super excited that we actually have one now! Honestly, Will and I aren’t early adopters of pretty much anything, but we needed a new roof anyway (really needed a new roof after 4 years of waiting) and thought we might as well get a new roof while saving the planet. The roof looks INCREDIBLE. It looks exactly the same as the pictures but even BETTER. I have to take a picture now that the construction equipment is gone, but here it is right after they finished it. 
The crew who installed it was awesome. They worked on Saturday to finish it, and when they finished up they were so funny. We were sitting on the screen porch and they walked by and said “Lexi… you have a solar roof”. When I got all excited and started to walk outside to see the finished product they joked, “wait! You can’t look at it yet – we need to wrap it all up and put a bow around it, then you tear it off. Oh and there is a camera crew coming from the local paper for the ribbon cutting.” I told them that they had to wait so I could run inside and put on make up. Now we just have to wait for a couple inspections before they can power it on…
(By the way this article was definitely not funded by Tesla, since you know I don’t do sponsored articles on my blog. That said, if you DO want a solar roof, solar panels or car, you should definitely use my referral link – you’ll get a $100 discount off the Tesla solar roof or Tesla solar panels and 1000 miles of free Supercharging when you buy a Tesla vehicle and I get a kick back too.)
On top of that exciting news, PATRICIA IS CRAWLING! (Am I a bad mom for putting Tesla news first? Be honest.) We knew it was going to be any day now since she’s been doing a sort of inch worm thing for a couple weeks but Julius always looked like he might crawl and he never did. Since she started to become mobile we prepped Julius on keeping choking hazards away from Patricia. Julius is constantly followed by choking hazards, be it the detritus of craft projects or food and toy related flotsam and jetsam. It is terrifying. He has gotten very cognizant of pointing out choking hazards to us. On the first day Patricia crawled, she crawled right towards Will. Julius tried to get Patricia to come to him next, but on the way towards her brother she was distracted by a pile of colorful meeples (that Julius likes to play with). Julius recounted the story to me afterwards as, “Patricia crawled first to Dada, then to some choking hazards!” Terrifying!
Well I’ve got a project that started before I had a second baby who put everything in her mouth! You may remember for Julius’ birthday that we had a Winnie the Pooh themed party. In lieu of candy, we filled his piñata with 100% fruit snacks and Winnie the Pooh figures that I made. I loved some of the ones we saw on Etsy so I used a couple of them as examples. My paint job hasn’t worn off yet, so I will use this method again to make more (when Patricia is past the choking hazard phase).
Painted Wooden Peg Dolls
What you’ll need:
- unfinished wood peg dolls
- acrylic paints in assorted colors
- black sharpie paint marker
- Mod Podge Clear gloss acrylic spray sealer
- Paint peg dolls with acrylic paint as desired. Let dry completely
- Draw features with black Sharpie paint marker. Let dry completely.
- Spray peg dolls with clear gloss sealer. Let dry completely.
- Apply a second coat of sealer. Let dry.
