Two firsts!

Yes, I know... it's been too long since I've blogged. Sorry. Life goes on in the real world though!


Braden had two firsts this week. Saturday was Kid Fest at the local shopping center. He went down a huge slide with Mom & Dad, got to sit in a fire engine, and rode his first pony! He was very excited about all of it!

His other first was going to Miller Park to see a ball game! He was so excited about that he didn't take a nap that day. He thought it was pretty cool that they had a baseball diamond inside. I think he even recognized it as what we watch on TV at home. He did really well, but I have to say it's a lot more exhausting going to a game with a two year old! He really enjoyed walking around the concourse and playing in the KidZone playground. The fireworks after home runs were cool, but a little scary with all that cheering. And speaking of cheering... boy was it fun being able to scream and yell as loud as you want!

Two years already!?!?

First, I'm sorry. The snow we got yesterday was all my fault. I packed our shovels. Doh!

Braden turns two today! Wow! We're pretty sure he doesn't know what that means, but you never know. He still isn't talking, but boy he can scream. Which is right about on schedule with the terrible twos. We are looking at putting him in day care a couple mornings a week so he gets some more socialization. I think that'll be good for him AND mom.

Speaking of talking..um.. nice pun. Speaking of talking... we are enrolled in classes to help Braden talk starting in May. Yeah... this makes alot of sense to me. Braden can't talk, so Kathie and I have to go to school?!? How is that fair????

We packed another 7 boxes last night! Yeah! Don't laugh... that's a lot with our current work load with the kids. The work room down stairs is empty, the bar is all packed up (well, except the liquor, which we may need another truck to haul), and we've got all the books stowed away. We're in pretty good shape, but it's still going to be a busy couple weeks. 15 days to moving day!

Move Update and stuff...

I know you're surprised to see I haven't blogged in weeks. It's rare, but it does happen! :)

Emma is now smiling and laughing. It's a great smile! The laugh isn't really a big laugh, but you can tell when she gets really happy/excited about the goofy faces you're making at her that she laughs.

She had her 2 month checkup last Friday. She is 50th percentile in height, weight and head size. She was down around 10th percentile at birth... so she's gaining! Everything else looks great!

Move stuff... sit down, this is going to be long. We are pretty much all set to go. Only thing we are really waiting on is our buyers' loan committal and that shouldn't be a problem. We got our loan approved last week. We did get some bad news though... we can't get into the house until we actually own the house. No, that's not unusual, but since our seller is moving out today, we were hoping we'd be able to at least get in the garage early to move some of our stuff gradually. But the relocation company technically owns the house and they said no.

But we're confident we can make it work. We're going to get a POD system and put it in our driveway and start moving boxes into it. Then we'll rent a U-haul to move the furniture. We'll have to pack the U-haul up on Thursday night and move it over Friday.

Water Heater...

The buyers for our house want $500 from us to cover replacing the water heater. Their realter said that's about half of the cost. Wow... I'm not sure what kind of water heater they want to put in, but I can get one for $250 and install it myself.

It's Dark Out!

For some odd reason it's still dark out when I get to work now. But all that extra sunlight at night..er... I mean... you know what I mean! It's nice that we have an extra hour of sun after Braden's nap time, especially with how warm it has been this weekend! It's just too bad the snow is going away because Braden really likes throwing snow balls at Dad and jumping in snow banks.

Our house (the current one... this gets confusing after a while!) was inspected on Sunday. Our realtor sent us over to Thunder Bay Grille for brunch while it was going on, which was very nice of her. (We're paying her a ton of money to sell our house, but it was STILL nice).

The only thing that came up during the inspection was that they thought our water heater was on its last legs. They think this because it makes a lot of noise while it's reheating the water... a noice that it has been making for...well... as long as I've had the house. So, either its last legs are really strong legs or it's fine. We'll find out today what the buyers want to do about it.

Our realtor will check out the buyers' financing today and see how things our going. If things look good, we'll mark the house as 'Active with Offer' and we won't have to show it anymore! Yeah!

Friday.

Another day where my lack of wit shines through with a stupid title :)

Inspection of our house is scheduled for Sunday... I'll be fixing the window in Braden's room Saturday. Hopefully it works!

I'm stressed out. I'm not getting enough done at work. I've got a lot to do at home with the house. We have to figure out a plan for moving. Baptism party is in a week (luckily the house is still somewhat clean from the showings!). My Aunt won't return my phone calls, or anyone else's. I don't remember what a hockey rink looks like. We have two kids under two at home.

But you know, all in all, things are still pretty great! Plus, this stress seems to be helping my diet as I've lost 10 lbs!

It's Thursday!

No, Thursday isn't some special day. I just couldn't think of a title.

Emma now weighs 10.5 pounds! The girl is growing fast!

We found out yesterday that our new house has very low levels of Radon, which is very good. Waukesha is terrible for Radon. We agreed to an refund from our seller to cover any caulking expenses on the new house if we decide to do the caulking this year. We're still waiting on our buyers to find out when they want to do the inspection.