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Friday, February 1, 2013
Counting Down the Months!
In exactly 5 months, Roger will be starting his new job in Fort Wayne! Excited doesn't even begin to describe the feeling! Just two days ago, we were approved to buy a home in Fort Wayne, so now the ball is rolling! Yey! We are hoping for a closing date in early June, so we won't officially start looking at homes until March. Which gives us approximately one month to get our own home ready for sale and start really focusing on what we want in a new house. The realtor for our current home did a walk-thru yesterday and she was very positive! She only had a few minor suggestions for us to make before we put our house on the market, so I am hoping for a quick and effortless sale. I think we've maintained our home fairly well (it could be worse?), I just hope that it is what someone out there is looking for...and that we get a reasonable offer.
Life with Ava has also gotten a lot more interesting in the past week. She now has her first imaginary friend, named Brave Knight. Apparently, she extracted her friend from a "Doc McStuffins" episode about a knight named Sir Kirby. She carries him in her hand and he does all sorts of stuff, like chase dogs and jump into her milk straws. I had no idea he even existed until my mom babysat last week and told me that she was talking and playing with a "Sir Kirby" or a "Brave Knight", depending. At first, I was a little worried and freaked out, but I talked to her preschool teacher, Mrs. K, about it, and she agrees that it is totally normal and that it just means that I have a gifted and imaginitive little one on my hands.
Landon is growing by leaps and bounds. He is still exclusively breastfed, but he had his first solid food last Friday. It was a little crazy, he wasn't sure what to do with a spoon and it was a real feat trying to get him to open his mouth!:) In all honesty, I am sure he eats just fine for a new eater, I have just forgotten what a messy and novel process eating can be for an infant! But he's so cute, I could care less about the mess! His first food was sweet potatoes and then peas. He LOVES peas! Just like his big sister, I bet he's gonna be a big veggie eater:) It's so neat to see him starting to sit up, play with toys, and to see Ava playing with him. She loves him and he loves her! He will just sit and watch her, completely captivated by whatever she is doing. She loves to sit in the pack n' play with him and they play with toys and she pretends she is a baby and keeps him company. They are so sweet together. I really do think that I have been blessed with two of the sweetest children ever! They are my two baby angels and they both fill my days with laughter and joy! I can't get enough of them! Now if my two little angels will allow me to keep this house clean and organized while we are trying to sell it, we will be set!
Life with Ava has also gotten a lot more interesting in the past week. She now has her first imaginary friend, named Brave Knight. Apparently, she extracted her friend from a "Doc McStuffins" episode about a knight named Sir Kirby. She carries him in her hand and he does all sorts of stuff, like chase dogs and jump into her milk straws. I had no idea he even existed until my mom babysat last week and told me that she was talking and playing with a "Sir Kirby" or a "Brave Knight", depending. At first, I was a little worried and freaked out, but I talked to her preschool teacher, Mrs. K, about it, and she agrees that it is totally normal and that it just means that I have a gifted and imaginitive little one on my hands.
Landon is growing by leaps and bounds. He is still exclusively breastfed, but he had his first solid food last Friday. It was a little crazy, he wasn't sure what to do with a spoon and it was a real feat trying to get him to open his mouth!:) In all honesty, I am sure he eats just fine for a new eater, I have just forgotten what a messy and novel process eating can be for an infant! But he's so cute, I could care less about the mess! His first food was sweet potatoes and then peas. He LOVES peas! Just like his big sister, I bet he's gonna be a big veggie eater:) It's so neat to see him starting to sit up, play with toys, and to see Ava playing with him. She loves him and he loves her! He will just sit and watch her, completely captivated by whatever she is doing. She loves to sit in the pack n' play with him and they play with toys and she pretends she is a baby and keeps him company. They are so sweet together. I really do think that I have been blessed with two of the sweetest children ever! They are my two baby angels and they both fill my days with laughter and joy! I can't get enough of them! Now if my two little angels will allow me to keep this house clean and organized while we are trying to sell it, we will be set!
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Happy New Year!!
It's 2013! It's officially the year that Roger and I have been waiting almost a DECADE for, unbelievable, but true. If someone had asked me in 2004, where I would be in the year 2013, I couldn't have dreamed up a more perfect life. Roger and I moved to Indianapolis on May 10, 2004, the day after my graduation. I literally went from college campus living, to real life, overnight. Neither of us had a job, but I had graduation money that would pay for rent...$500. For some reason, that seemed like a lot, and just enough to last us the summer. We were crazy. You would have to be crazy to do what we did. We moved onto the northeast side of Indy, knowing nothing about the city whatsoever, into a 450 sq. foot studio apartment. Yes, I said 450 square feet. The first few years in Indy were rough to say the least. We were under a ton of stress, working long days doing terrible work, both exhausted but too young, and probably too stupid, to realize that a good night of sleep would have done us wonders. Regardless of our schedules, we would stay up until all hours of the early morning, watching tv, shopping, doing stuff that I now don't even remember. What did we do in those years? Imagine, these are the days before iphones or Facebook, the Internet was for school, mapping restaurants, and downloading illegal songs. We "hung out", we fought a lot, we imagined a better life for ourselves and would spend hours talking about "I can't wait when...". We didn't have any real friends, we only had each other and we knew it.
So much has changed. A couple of apartments, degrees, jobs, cars and kids later...our "can't wait until 2013", is here. It's exciting and scary. Landon is almost 5 months, just starting to explore his world, giggling and squealing, trying to grab at everything, being as sweet as ever, so I know he won't be affected much by this year. But Ava, this is a huge year for her too. As if last year wasn't enough! ;). In reality, all of our lives are about to change. Big time. I hope, I pray, it was worth the wait. Worth every hour of every excited late night conversation, every hour Roger spent studying, every hour of working that long 30 hour shift, every holiday missed, every late night alone, every obsessive house search, every walk around the block spent dreaming, thinking, "I can't wait until"...I think it will be. And when it's here, what will we do? I suppose we will just have to start dreaming and planning for our next adventure. Isn't that what life is really all about? :)
So much has changed. A couple of apartments, degrees, jobs, cars and kids later...our "can't wait until 2013", is here. It's exciting and scary. Landon is almost 5 months, just starting to explore his world, giggling and squealing, trying to grab at everything, being as sweet as ever, so I know he won't be affected much by this year. But Ava, this is a huge year for her too. As if last year wasn't enough! ;). In reality, all of our lives are about to change. Big time. I hope, I pray, it was worth the wait. Worth every hour of every excited late night conversation, every hour Roger spent studying, every hour of working that long 30 hour shift, every holiday missed, every late night alone, every obsessive house search, every walk around the block spent dreaming, thinking, "I can't wait until"...I think it will be. And when it's here, what will we do? I suppose we will just have to start dreaming and planning for our next adventure. Isn't that what life is really all about? :)
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