That was quick!

We put our house on the market a week ago yesterday. The potential buyer that looked at the house just minutes after the sign went up made an offer and we signed a contract on Sunday! Only 4 days on the market in this economy is amazing! Aaaand we have a contract on the house just up the street! We're closing on both houses 7/24! God was definitely looking after us! I figure we deserved a break after dealing with Katie for the last 16mo! I just hope we haven't used it all up because I'm really praying for an easier baby this go around.

I'm sad to leave my wonderful laminate floors, but I'm most bummed to leave our garden. Eric and Kelton have put so much work into it. I don't think we're going to get to pick any corn before we leave, but I know we'll get plenty of onions, potatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, cucumbers, tomatoes and probably peppers.









I love getting mail. That must be something you never grow out of, because it's still totally fun even when you're old. We got this box in the mail from Carrie on Tues. I could smell the coffee beans before I even got the mail box open. I cannot wait to try the gluten free cinnamon roll mix, but I think I'll wait until we have a day where the high is less than 100 to turn my oven on. You know I'll put those Gymbo coupons to use and the little baby card she made about had me crying.



I've decided to start weaning Katie now so that we can take it really slowly. I'm not pumping anymore, so she gets 100% coconut milk in her bottle or sippy. We're lucky we have that alternative. We buy the original. I think because it's very slightly sweetened, it's a lot like breastmilk, which also has a sweet taste. I won't lie, I'm extremely excited at the prospect of eating normally again.

Right now I'm just eating whatever sounds good, which includes subway veggie delight for breakfast, graham crackers with frosting for dinner, peanut butter smeared on frosted mini wheats for lunch. I cannot wait until this passes as I've had some pretty rough days.

I've linked to my sister in law, Carrie, several times, but my mother in law, Yvette, is blogging now too. Check it out!

Tomorrow is weigh day for Katie. She was 19lbs 1oz last month and I really feel like she's gaining, so I'm hoping for 20+lbs! Keep your fingers crossed.

On The Market

Spent the entire morning getting the house immaculate so our realtor could come take pictures to list our house this evening. It does look awesome, if I do say so myself. She hadn't been gone more than 20min when she called and asked if we could do a showing tonight! Heck yes! And we got really positive feedback! It would be my dream come true if we could sell this place right away and get the house we really want that's less than a block away. I really want to stay in this neighborhood.


Notice how terrible our front yard looks? We let the crab grass take over last year when we were in the deep depths of colic. Although we've kept it at bay this year, it'll be next spring before all those bare spots will fill in.

Had to go to Target last night to get a mirror for our big empty wall. Supposedly, it'll make the room look bigger. To ease the pain of spending $60 on a mirror, I grabbed some free Nexcare bandaides, Crystal Light and Old Spice deodorant. I also got 2 pkgs of Ziplock evolve sandwich baggies for .49 each.

Then I hopped on over to Dillons to snag some of the Santa Cruz Organic Strawberry-Lemonade for .66/bottle. It's very good. I hope it's still on sale because I want to get some more.

Pretty much everyone and their dog knows I'm pregnant now and actually it's made it easier and allowed me to start getting excited because everyone else is so excited.

I took my boss man in a little bottle of Southern Comfort and made him think I was quitting before I told him, "I'm only pregnant and that doesn't seem nearly as bad now, does it?" I just started working my Mondays again in Jan, so I barely feel like I've been back that long. The next day I brought this cake to announce our news to the rest of the office. It's lemon cake poked with strawberry jello and lemon frosting. Very tasty!


Katie has been sleeping totally unswaddled since April, I think. We just slowly worked out of it. She would swing with only her arms swaddled, but quit that first. Then she got to where she was sleeping in her crib without her arms swaddled and we finally dropped that too. We used to joke that when she was 16, we'd be zipping her up in a mummy bag every night before bed.

She's not very good at napping anywhere besides her swing, but she did nap for an hour in her crib on Sunday. Today she napped for at least 30min on the floor at my mom's house.


And the biggest news on the sleeping front....Monday night, she went to bed at 6:45pm and didn't get up until 5am! Of course at that point she was up for the day, but I was up getting ready for work anyway. Naturally she didn't repeat it the next night, but if she can do it once, there's hope that it will happen again and maybe on the regular!

You might want to sit down....

Because this is a shocker.

We've known for a week now (yes, I needed 4 to make me believe it) and have been slowing letting everyone know. Acceptance is happening with each person we tell.

While I've been slowing becoming mega exhausted and sick, not to mention totally freaked out, Eric has been great. He's been calm and totally on top of things because we're going to need to sell this house and find something bigger.

Katie is still way to big of challenge to even consider putting a baby in her room yet. She's been specifically difficult these last couple weeks and I figured out the reason last night. Eric has been buying me Tostito's Hint of Lime. They're are super good AND contain milk. I never would have guessed and am so mad at myself for not looking sooner. This also explains Katie's new breakout of eczema, why she's been spitting up and getting the hicups several times a day.

We've about a year ahead of our ideal schedule for this, if ever, really. I'm worried about how Katie will handle it and upset because my milk supply has already diminished quite a bit. I wanted to nurse her longer. I also wanted to have more 1 on 1 time with her after Kelton started K this fall.

I'm sure everything will work out on the end, (at least that's what I keep telling myself.) I know that when we hold our new squishy baby, we'll be totally in love and hopefully he/she doesn't scream 24/7 - above all that's my one huge fear.

My mom isn't driving yet, so I took her home Thurs after Kelton's tball game and stayed to watch an episode of Roots. She has the mini-series on DVD, so I've been escaping over to watch it with her occassionally. I told Eric to call me if he had trouble with Katie. He didn't call and I came home to find this. I even got the picture and moved her to her crib without her waking up.


Made a quick trip to Target on Friday. Total was $5.46 before tax. Crystal Light was free, baggies were .79 each and the containers were .54 each. All along I had been planning to have Katie eating no baby food by now, but best laid plans, ya know. While I would love for her to just eat peas and greenbeans, she still loves the babyfood with a little pears mixed in. So I'm going to feed her what she'll eat at this point.


The kids in their matchy matchy outfits. I think they looked really cute. To tell our parents about the baby, I used paint to draw a little stick figure and put Feb 2010 above it. Naturally they're all excited and they'd better be because this is the last grandbaby they're getting from us!


Instead of Katie in a cute outfit this time....Check out Kelton's new digs that Eric found at Walmart a few weeks ago.

Never Never Never

That's what I always said about owning any type of video game system for my kids. I want them up and being physical, not sitting on their duffs zoned into some game. Plus, I can have a bit of an addictive personality and games like Tetris can literally keep me up all night.

That was before. Before I played bowling on the Wii at my neighbor's house. Before I knew the Wii was a totally different type of game system. My mind started spinning thinking about all the family fun we could have on those 0 degree snowy days or the 105 degree death valley like days. Gotta love Kansas!

We decided that Santa would bring a Wii and started saving our money. After several months the money was saved and Mommy started getting anxious. Mommy's work out videos aren't even DVDs. That's right folks, they're VHS. Mommy wants to workout with the Wii Fit so bad she can taste it and xmas, that's like an eternity away.

At PT on Wed, it was mentioned how awesome the Wii fit and Wii personal trainer really was and that was it.... I knew we had to buy it last weekend.

Eric picked it up at Target. He got himself a hunting game, the Fit and Personal Trainer for me and Nascar game that will be put up until Xmas for Kelton.




When Kelton got home Sunday evening, he was super thrilled. He's been playing the Wii for at least a year while he's gone on visitation and he's pretty much a pro compared to us.


Katie gave it a try also.

Katie is pretty much walking (and falling) all the time now. I know it's totally normal at this stage, but I feel so bad everytime she gets new pump or bruise. This on her chin is from face planting into the corner of the dishwasher. Two of her fingers are scratched up too.


And a close up of the pretty dress she wore last night.
From the back is the best I could get.

Over the weekend I made some sorbet. I got the idea from Milk Allergy Mom. I made strawberry banana and halved the sugar. It was super good. Katie and I have been enjoying it nearly every day. I made another batch of just banana tonight. I can't wait to try it with watermelon.

We have Layla this weekend, so we're trying to figure out something super fun to do. Whatever it is, there'll be lots of pictures.

Mud Ducks!

That's the name of Kelton's tball team. His first game was on Thursday evening and we had SO much fun!
Lots of pictures ahead!!




It is absolutely hilarious to watch all the kids scramble to get the ball. They often end up in one big pile. Everybody was a winner and we can't wait until the next game! Kelton is obviously the shortest (and whitest) boy on the team, but he doesn't even notice. He's just having a great time.
Friday we went spent some time outside in the morning before it got too hot. Instead of the double stroller, I pushed Katie in the awesome single stroller that I got forever ago at BRU for a great price (using coupons, of course) and Kelton rode his bike. The loop we walk is just short of a mile, so I'm sure he was tired.

And as usual, Katie tagged along, looking cute in a pretty dress.

Shopping Spree!!

I had my first PT appt this morning and I'm really encouraged. I already noticed a difference in my lower back pain during my walk tonight. I found out the real problem isn't diastatis, it's my csection scar. Damn csections.

My hairbows arrived on Monday. I really like them, but there was a mistake with my order and I was sent a med brown bow instead of a lg one. I contacted the company and they sent out a new bow the next morning, saying for me to keep the mistake bow. Great company. I will definitely be a repeat customer.

My shopping spree on Sunday was so much fun and I finally have pictures! I took them all in the basement on our hideous green carpet. It was here when we bought the house and I can't bring myself to replace it because it's in such great condition.
Our first stop was Gymboree.
Kelton got some jammies.
Katie also got a set of jammies and new swim suit. I already had one for her that I bought last year on clearance and of course at the time I didn't know she wasn't going to grow, so it's huge.


Katie got these 3 outfits for this year. I was going to get the brown dress for next year, but Lisa convinced me to get it for this year and then next year, she can wear it with shorts. I also picked up the plaid halter dress for Layla so that she can Katie could have a matching outfit.


Katie will wear this cute little outfit next summer.

Next stop was The Children's Place. Both Kelton and Katie got 2 pairs of sunglasses for free because of my $10 place perks. I absolutely love TCP sunglasses. They make them really tiny for little faces and they're regularly 2 for $5! You just can't beat that, especially because my kids are forever losing or breaking their sunglasses. I believe in his short 5 yrs, Kelton has gone through twice as many sunglasses as I have in 28 yrs.

Before I left, Kelton told me he wanted to have something to match Katie, so I was delighted to find these!

Next awesome find were these little sandals for Katie. This sole is really soft and flexible and they fit perfectly!
We made an unplanned stop at Old Navy because I needed to get Kelton a shirt to match the shorts I bought at TCP and I figured their $5 Forth of July shirts would be perfect. While I was there, I got one for me and Eric also, so we'll all match!

I saw this jammie while we were there and I couldn't resist, so I picked it up for next year.

Poor Kelton's first tball game got rained out last night. We've got another game tomorrow night and no rain in the forecast. I can't wait. Today's weather was a bit windy, but the temp was great. We always try to spend some time outside whenever possible. I really think it helps Katie sleep better.



And I'll finish things up with a funny little video of Katie.
Every kid does this at some point, don't they?