Friday, August 31, 2012
House!
It's only taken two and a half months, but we finally got a "final" acceptance on our offer on a house! I put final in quotations because the selling realtor has been less than helpful, so while we think it's gone through all the steps to get our offer accepted, well, let's just say we were under that impression before too. The house is in short-sale, thus the long time frame. They really shouldn't be misleading and call it a short-sale (yes, I know financially they're worth it, but timing wise? We might, MIGHT, be in the house when Sophie is born... or we might be paying rent and a mortgage because I don't know if I'm going to be able to move house in the middle of December). All in all, it is a good deal. The timing could just be a little better. Baring any further complications, we should close October 19th. Then it's just a matter of a new roof, insulation, wallpaper removal, painting, new floors, and oh yeah, appliances so the kitchen is up-to-code for baking. Just a few things, really. Ideally we'll be in the house before Sophie is born, but like I said... who knows.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Owls!
Dylan loves owls. The library recently hosted an event that we were all too willing to break bedtime for... a presentation about owls. And there were owls there. Unfortunately, as the presenter was walking around with one of these owls, it pooped in front of Dylan. For awhile, whenever owls were mentioned it was followed by "Dada Poop" (Jeremy cleaned the poop up with a baby wipe so no one would step in it). He seems to be moving on from that... he wants a yellow bedroom with owls in it, or at least that's what he's said when I've asked.
Touching an owl wing with Conor's Grandma Patty (she and Conor met us there as Jill was having her baby!!)
The owl, moments before the infamous poop.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Baby...
Sista! (as Dylan says)
Yup, it's a girl. And yup, we've known this almost two weeks. I figured anyone who reads this thing has probably already heard the news. Plus I was busy.
Her name will be Sophie Grace, which is causing Dylan some confusion. Before he thought there was a tiger in my belly, but now that the tiger has a name, Sophie, Dylan thinks that it just might be a giraffe (as in his Sophie giraffe). Either way he gets the "baby sister" part. Hopefully.
I've had several people ask what we need, so for the sake of repeating myself again, here goes:
- ABSOLUTELY no blankets (except one very specific one that I plan to buy for Sophie)
- Clothes we're pretty much set on for awhile... a lot of Dylan's stuff is gender neutral until we get to the older stuff. If you really feel the need to rush out and buy clothes (yes, this means you Mom, Aunt Cindy and Grandmommie), Carter's giftcards would be great; they'd allow us to fill in as needed.
- NO TOYS. Luckily these two kiddos are close in age and we have an abundance of toys for baby Sophie, as well as stuffed animals and books.
Okay, so maybe those are the things we don't need more than what we do...
1) DIAPERS. This should be a big fat duh. However, diapers come in all sizes so we'd be happy to have a giftcards to diapers.com or Target. Not to mention, we don't really have all the room in the world to stock diapers.
2) Eventually we will need a double stroller. We plan to pick this out ourselves because it has to meet certain characteristics (as in, I have to be able to lift the thing in and out of the car, it has to be driveable in snow, etc). Again, this is where the diapers.com or Target giftcards come in.
Um, yeah, I can't think of a third thing. However, we really don't expect anything from anyone. I just wanted to field the question en masse (hopefully this takes care of that) so I don't feel like a broken record. Well, I guess we do expect one thing - love the kid. We're super excited to meet her (although Sophie, please wait until December).
Yup, it's a girl. And yup, we've known this almost two weeks. I figured anyone who reads this thing has probably already heard the news. Plus I was busy.
Her name will be Sophie Grace, which is causing Dylan some confusion. Before he thought there was a tiger in my belly, but now that the tiger has a name, Sophie, Dylan thinks that it just might be a giraffe (as in his Sophie giraffe). Either way he gets the "baby sister" part. Hopefully.
I've had several people ask what we need, so for the sake of repeating myself again, here goes:
- ABSOLUTELY no blankets (except one very specific one that I plan to buy for Sophie)
- Clothes we're pretty much set on for awhile... a lot of Dylan's stuff is gender neutral until we get to the older stuff. If you really feel the need to rush out and buy clothes (yes, this means you Mom, Aunt Cindy and Grandmommie), Carter's giftcards would be great; they'd allow us to fill in as needed.
- NO TOYS. Luckily these two kiddos are close in age and we have an abundance of toys for baby Sophie, as well as stuffed animals and books.
Okay, so maybe those are the things we don't need more than what we do...
1) DIAPERS. This should be a big fat duh. However, diapers come in all sizes so we'd be happy to have a giftcards to diapers.com or Target. Not to mention, we don't really have all the room in the world to stock diapers.
2) Eventually we will need a double stroller. We plan to pick this out ourselves because it has to meet certain characteristics (as in, I have to be able to lift the thing in and out of the car, it has to be driveable in snow, etc). Again, this is where the diapers.com or Target giftcards come in.
Um, yeah, I can't think of a third thing. However, we really don't expect anything from anyone. I just wanted to field the question en masse (hopefully this takes care of that) so I don't feel like a broken record. Well, I guess we do expect one thing - love the kid. We're super excited to meet her (although Sophie, please wait until December).