In mid-January we took a weekend to go shopping for new flooring for our kitchen. During that process we started discussing all the different things that we wanted to do to our home to make it better fit our needs. With that discussion we quickly went from picking out flooring to deciding to put our house on the market.
We met with a few realtors and went to see what was out there in our price range to make sure we could find something we liked. We found a realtor that we really liked and had worked with a few of our friends prior and we liked what we saw in the few we went to look at.
The house officially went on the market February 8 (Friday). We had our first showing on Saturday and they have continued coming.
It has been a whirlwind of emotions but we are trusting in God. We know that the house will sell in his time if he means for us to move, if not we will stay. This trust was tested in me today when our neighbors put their house on the market for not much more even though they have a bigger home. Needless to say this was very frustrating and now we have a lot of consideration to do. We are still relying on God, knowing that everything will happen in his time. Who knows, the showing we have this afternoon could be our buyers (fingers and toes crossed).
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Long Overdue Update
It has been a very, very long time since I have written anything and I thought it was about time for an update on our lives.
Since my last post we have made it through the end of 2012, celebrating Christmas with our families and trying to stay warm in some very cold temperatures. Andrew is still growing like crazy and every day it is more apparent that he definitely will have his daddy's height. Nothing seems to be safe from his reach anymore, even things on the counter tops.
Andrew's vocabulary has really expanded in the past month or so. He know says...this and that (when he wants to show us something or wants to know what something is), hot (yes we still have a chef and now everything is hot), choo choo, uh oh, roars like a lion, and best of all...Mom! He has also added both please and milk to his sign language skills which are very helpful. Our big boy has already been turned into a great State fan as well. Usually when he sees the mascot or the logo he will lift his hands in a touch down sign...Daddy is very proud of this.
We have been amazingly blessed by getting an official nap time routine down with our little guy as well. After a very long week of struggling I choose to just go lay him down in his bed one day, this was after a lot of crying and fighting and I knew he was exhausted. He cried in his bed for maybe 10 minutes and then slept for an amazing 2 hours. Since then this has been our routine and we are consistently getting 1.5 hour naps in his bed plus an occasional extend time of snuggling afterward. This has been such a blessing as it has eliminated a lot of daily stress.
Here are some update pictures for everyone...
Since my last post we have made it through the end of 2012, celebrating Christmas with our families and trying to stay warm in some very cold temperatures. Andrew is still growing like crazy and every day it is more apparent that he definitely will have his daddy's height. Nothing seems to be safe from his reach anymore, even things on the counter tops.
Andrew's vocabulary has really expanded in the past month or so. He know says...this and that (when he wants to show us something or wants to know what something is), hot (yes we still have a chef and now everything is hot), choo choo, uh oh, roars like a lion, and best of all...Mom! He has also added both please and milk to his sign language skills which are very helpful. Our big boy has already been turned into a great State fan as well. Usually when he sees the mascot or the logo he will lift his hands in a touch down sign...Daddy is very proud of this.
We have been amazingly blessed by getting an official nap time routine down with our little guy as well. After a very long week of struggling I choose to just go lay him down in his bed one day, this was after a lot of crying and fighting and I knew he was exhausted. He cried in his bed for maybe 10 minutes and then slept for an amazing 2 hours. Since then this has been our routine and we are consistently getting 1.5 hour naps in his bed plus an occasional extend time of snuggling afterward. This has been such a blessing as it has eliminated a lot of daily stress.
Here are some update pictures for everyone...
We got a very large blizzard a few days before Christmas and Andrew just loved the snow.
Andrew was very entertained watching Daddy dig us out through the little window left in our front door.
GO STATE!!!
Fixing my tractor.
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Happy Birthday!!!
Andrew is UNO!!!
Hard to believe that our little guy is a year old! We were able to have both of our immediate families over to celebrate, made for a cozy house but it made it more special. Andrew did great with all the extra stuff going on and was so excited when it came to opening gifts.
We are so blessed to have such a sweet boy in our lives!
Here are some of our favorites from the day...
We took a picture of our little guy every day for the first year, the banner above displayed one from every month. Todd put together a movie of all the pictures to display how much he changed over the year.
Andrew is 1
"I must be cute"
Andrew is ONE!
Daddy worked really hard on making my cake. Thanks so much it was yummy!
We Are Walking
I am behind on my posting so this is kind of old news but we now have another walker in the house! About three weeks ago Andrew took his first step and has been improving every day since then. It is so much fun to watch him walking around but also scary at the same point.
Daddy had given him the goal of walking before he was a year old and he did it! What a big boy we have.
Daddy had given him the goal of walking before he was a year old and he did it! What a big boy we have.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
11 Months Old
Wow we are now 11 months old! It is crazy to think but you can tell that our little guy is acting less and less like a baby every day. Andrew is always moving and can hardly sit still. He has to see everything that we are doing, especially in the kitchen. He has really started to copy us with noises we make or our actions, soaking up everything around him. He is moving on to become a walker real soon...walking with his musical toy, making easy work of the furniture, and walking while holding onto our fingers, even just one. Soon I will be seeing him running through the house.
He is up to about 22 lbs now and wearing size 12 month clothes, but his arms could use the 18 month sizes...thanks Daddy :)
If you ask him for a hug, most of the time you will get one. The sweetest thing is that if he thinks you are sad he will crawl over to you and give you one over and over until you are happy again...sweet boy.
Say cheez when he sees a camera and gives a toothy smile with squinty eyes.
Still loves his baths and hates to get out of them.
Two days before he turned 11 months he decided that he no longer wanted baby food. Will still eat the fruits we have prepared for him (pears, applesauce, etc) but other than that he wants our food.
Still loves music and is starting to learn to "dance" by bouncing
Can find his tummy. Just ask him where it is and he will pat it with his hands. This also means that he tries to find ours by lifting up our shirts.
He is down to nursing four times a day.
Takes two naps a nap. One in the morning at about 9:00 for 40 minutes and then one in the afternoon at about 2:00 for an hour and a half or so. Such a blessing! This is the best he has ever done with napping.
He is working on his 5th tooth, giving him some issues like his other top teeth did.
We can't get enough of our little guy and I find it hard to believe that he is almost a year old. God has truely blessed us with him.
He is up to about 22 lbs now and wearing size 12 month clothes, but his arms could use the 18 month sizes...thanks Daddy :)
If you ask him for a hug, most of the time you will get one. The sweetest thing is that if he thinks you are sad he will crawl over to you and give you one over and over until you are happy again...sweet boy.
Say cheez when he sees a camera and gives a toothy smile with squinty eyes.
Still loves his baths and hates to get out of them.
Two days before he turned 11 months he decided that he no longer wanted baby food. Will still eat the fruits we have prepared for him (pears, applesauce, etc) but other than that he wants our food.
Still loves music and is starting to learn to "dance" by bouncing
Can find his tummy. Just ask him where it is and he will pat it with his hands. This also means that he tries to find ours by lifting up our shirts.
He is down to nursing four times a day.
Takes two naps a nap. One in the morning at about 9:00 for 40 minutes and then one in the afternoon at about 2:00 for an hour and a half or so. Such a blessing! This is the best he has ever done with napping.
He is working on his 5th tooth, giving him some issues like his other top teeth did.
They keep saying I look like daddy
We can't get enough of our little guy and I find it hard to believe that he is almost a year old. God has truely blessed us with him.
Friday, November 2, 2012
Happy Halloween!
Todd and I are not ones to dress up for Halloween but we couldn't resist dressing up our little guy. We threw around a couple of ideas for a while but we wanted something unique and that fit him (not your typical store bought monkey or something like that). Todd found this idea, so it was off to the fabric store to buy a pattern and materials - so glad I have taken up sewing!
And so we have....
One of his favorite things to do everyday is empty out the few cupboards in the kitchen that we don't have locked. We have started to leave some kitchen utensils (a wooden spoon, whisk, ladle, etc) in there as well. A lot of the time he will put toys in his bowls or pans and stir them up.
But it doesn't end there. If either of us are cooking in the kitchen he will be right at our feet begging us to pick him up so he can see what we are doing.
It is so much fun to watch his little mind work and figure out different things like stirring without our help.
We love our little chef!
And so we have....
Andrew the Chef!!!
One of his favorite things to do everyday is empty out the few cupboards in the kitchen that we don't have locked. We have started to leave some kitchen utensils (a wooden spoon, whisk, ladle, etc) in there as well. A lot of the time he will put toys in his bowls or pans and stir them up.
But it doesn't end there. If either of us are cooking in the kitchen he will be right at our feet begging us to pick him up so he can see what we are doing.
It is so much fun to watch his little mind work and figure out different things like stirring without our help.
We love our little chef!
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Pumpkin Patch Time
We took Andrew to a pumpkin patch only about 5 miles from our house and he loved it. They had a cute little petting zoo with some very friendly animals, a corn pit (which turned out to be a bad idea as he kept trying to eat the corn), a pick your own pumpkin patch, and many different colorful gourds to choose from. And the best part...it was free!! I think we may have found our pumpkin patch to go to every year. When he is older he can participate in the other things they have for a little bit older kids.
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