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*In future weeks you'll see some slight changes to Wordless Wednesdays to sort of dress it up instead of just tossing a bunch of pictures on here. :-)
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wordless Wednesday
Pictures:
Video:
*In future weeks you'll see some slight changes to Wordless Wednesdays to sort of dress it up instead of just tossing a bunch of pictures on here. :-)
Video:
*In future weeks you'll see some slight changes to Wordless Wednesdays to sort of dress it up instead of just tossing a bunch of pictures on here. :-)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
This is the behind the scenes look....
I know I have been behind on the Sophia pictures. Things around the Chandler house have been busy. We've been looking for a house. Which, lets be honest, isn't that easy for two hard headed people like Cody and myself. We both have strong ideas about what we want, and while we both have the right idea in mind...we bump heads about the details a lot.
First we were looking to just buy....and everything we found was horribly taken care of (A common theme for this area from what we've learned). After that we decided to build. But after talking those details over with two people a little (ok a lot) more experienced we realized that the time frame would set us back and all of this area's new constuction is all "ticky tacky and they all look just the same" (name that show and you get a fake cookie!) Not to mention the details of trying to build anything we actually wanted cost us more than we would make if I had two husbands! So back to the idea board. We looked at newer construction, came back with the same results as if we were to build, with the added bonus of seeing what horrible work they are doing trying to get houses up here as fast as possible. We kept looking. Kept tossing around ideas....we found some more houses we'd like to take a look at and set up the appointment with the realtor.
And then we found it. Cody gets the credit for this find. I have no idea how my endless online searches of real estate never brought us to this house. But as I was getting ready to meet with our realtor Cody calls me into the living room to look at this house. It checks off 90% of the things we wanted and 100% of the things we felt like our house had to have. It has more room than any other house we've looked at. It has one more bathroom than any house we'd looked at. Was it too good to be true? Were we going to look at it and realize two chain smokers smoked inside the house every day for five years? Were we going to get there and find knife holes in the walls? Were we going to get there and see a huge mess left by someone who wanted to get out fast due to a foreclosure? (these are all things we HAD already seen, and that's skipping the house of the recent bachelor that lived in such clutter and mess that I needed to shower when we walked out of the house)
We pull up catious of having our hopes up. But they weren't y'all. They weren't at all. It was amazing. Two good sized kids rooms (which is SO uncommon for this area). A decent kitchen (nothing amazing, but it wasn't a closet sized kitchen so I liked it). Great closets through out. The basement has been remodeled, and they had made two bedrooms and added a bathroom. The master bed room would actually be big enough for a larger bed (which we've been wanting badly) and while the master bathroom needs some updating....we can work with it!
So....this brings me to the second new thing I've done so far in 2010.
We put an offer on a house!
We're expecting a counter offer. But we're praying. It's not in our hands. We know how far we can budge....so hopefully it all works out the way it's supposed to! And trust me, the moment we have more information, so will you!
First we were looking to just buy....and everything we found was horribly taken care of (A common theme for this area from what we've learned). After that we decided to build. But after talking those details over with two people a little (ok a lot) more experienced we realized that the time frame would set us back and all of this area's new constuction is all "ticky tacky and they all look just the same" (name that show and you get a fake cookie!) Not to mention the details of trying to build anything we actually wanted cost us more than we would make if I had two husbands! So back to the idea board. We looked at newer construction, came back with the same results as if we were to build, with the added bonus of seeing what horrible work they are doing trying to get houses up here as fast as possible. We kept looking. Kept tossing around ideas....we found some more houses we'd like to take a look at and set up the appointment with the realtor.
And then we found it. Cody gets the credit for this find. I have no idea how my endless online searches of real estate never brought us to this house. But as I was getting ready to meet with our realtor Cody calls me into the living room to look at this house. It checks off 90% of the things we wanted and 100% of the things we felt like our house had to have. It has more room than any other house we've looked at. It has one more bathroom than any house we'd looked at. Was it too good to be true? Were we going to look at it and realize two chain smokers smoked inside the house every day for five years? Were we going to get there and find knife holes in the walls? Were we going to get there and see a huge mess left by someone who wanted to get out fast due to a foreclosure? (these are all things we HAD already seen, and that's skipping the house of the recent bachelor that lived in such clutter and mess that I needed to shower when we walked out of the house)
We pull up catious of having our hopes up. But they weren't y'all. They weren't at all. It was amazing. Two good sized kids rooms (which is SO uncommon for this area). A decent kitchen (nothing amazing, but it wasn't a closet sized kitchen so I liked it). Great closets through out. The basement has been remodeled, and they had made two bedrooms and added a bathroom. The master bed room would actually be big enough for a larger bed (which we've been wanting badly) and while the master bathroom needs some updating....we can work with it!
So....this brings me to the second new thing I've done so far in 2010.
We put an offer on a house!
We're expecting a counter offer. But we're praying. It's not in our hands. We know how far we can budge....so hopefully it all works out the way it's supposed to! And trust me, the moment we have more information, so will you!
Friday, January 1, 2010
How is wee Sophia these days?
You may be wanting a Sophia update. Since I didn't do one after her appointment last week. And with the holidays I didn't really write as much as I normally do.
Sophia is pretty much great. She didn't gain quite as much weight as we thought, she's still pushing 19 pounds. She's 26 and a half inches long. You may be wondering why she didn't grow much. Well I had the length wrong before, she was 25 inches long. I think it started off as a typo that just kept going. Oops.
Either way she's still hanging out in the 105th percentile. But the doctor isn't concerned because she's growing with the curve, just above it.
What I really want to talk about is sophia's HILARIOUS personality. It has REALLY come out lately. The girl LOVES to laugh. And she loves to trick people. We call her the pterodactyl now because she screaches and then laughes or blows raspberries in the air afterward. (I want to admit, I had to look up how to spell pterodactyl, because it seems like it would be spelled taradactile...but it's not). She does this silent laugh with her mouth wide open and her eyes squeezed shut, she kicks and flails her arms. She finds so much to be happy about. I love it!
We've been trying food as I've posted before. We've been through Pears, Avocados, Bananas, and Squash. She wasn't a big fan of the avocados or bananas, but I'm thinking it may be the consistency. She loves pears and I'm thinking she may be ready to have more than just an oz because she seems very disappointed when they are gone and she has to have a bottle.
She has learned to roll every which way. Which means she's waking herself up in her sleep more, and becoming even more of a daredevil. Now she has it in her mind to roll over in the bath. The first time she did it I almost cried. Half of her head was in the water and it felt like slow motion pulling her out of the water completely. We've decided it's time for a better tub for her, this week she'll probably be trying out the blow up tub.
We received a camcorder as a Christmas gift, so I plan on taping her a lot more. Every week I'll add a video on with the pictures of Wordless Wednesday. I can't promise that they will all be really interesting, but hopefully I'll be able to catch her personality for you all a little more.
More than anything I want to prove to you that she was a flying dinosaur in a previous life.
Sophia is pretty much great. She didn't gain quite as much weight as we thought, she's still pushing 19 pounds. She's 26 and a half inches long. You may be wondering why she didn't grow much. Well I had the length wrong before, she was 25 inches long. I think it started off as a typo that just kept going. Oops.
Either way she's still hanging out in the 105th percentile. But the doctor isn't concerned because she's growing with the curve, just above it.
What I really want to talk about is sophia's HILARIOUS personality. It has REALLY come out lately. The girl LOVES to laugh. And she loves to trick people. We call her the pterodactyl now because she screaches and then laughes or blows raspberries in the air afterward. (I want to admit, I had to look up how to spell pterodactyl, because it seems like it would be spelled taradactile...but it's not). She does this silent laugh with her mouth wide open and her eyes squeezed shut, she kicks and flails her arms. She finds so much to be happy about. I love it!
We've been trying food as I've posted before. We've been through Pears, Avocados, Bananas, and Squash. She wasn't a big fan of the avocados or bananas, but I'm thinking it may be the consistency. She loves pears and I'm thinking she may be ready to have more than just an oz because she seems very disappointed when they are gone and she has to have a bottle.
She has learned to roll every which way. Which means she's waking herself up in her sleep more, and becoming even more of a daredevil. Now she has it in her mind to roll over in the bath. The first time she did it I almost cried. Half of her head was in the water and it felt like slow motion pulling her out of the water completely. We've decided it's time for a better tub for her, this week she'll probably be trying out the blow up tub.
We received a camcorder as a Christmas gift, so I plan on taping her a lot more. Every week I'll add a video on with the pictures of Wordless Wednesday. I can't promise that they will all be really interesting, but hopefully I'll be able to catch her personality for you all a little more.
More than anything I want to prove to you that she was a flying dinosaur in a previous life.
Two Thousand and Ten
I am looking forward to this year. To seeing what fun adventures are coming our way. This time in 2009 we were preparing ourselves for a baby....praying every morning and night for her healthy growth and that I would be able to keep her safe until she was ready for the world. And I think I did a pretty good job.
This year we on our way to owning our first home!
I have no doubts that 2010 will be a year we will always remember. As we make our first home together, a home that we own, I am excited, nervous, cautious, hopeful, and just plain HAPPY!
The rest of the blogging world did a review of 2009. I'm not going to put anyone through that since I spent most of the year pregnant. I spent a couple months in zombie mode because I wasn't sleeping. And I've spent the last two months or so blogging consistently enough for you to get a good idea of what our life is like here.
I will do the typical listing of my new years resolutions:
I am going to try to cook one thing I've never made before a week. That's a minimum of 52 new recipes this year.
I am going to try to do one new thing a week. Meaning 52 new things this year.
And as so many people before me have said, I am going to try to be a better person. More patient. More kind. I am going to listen more. And support more.
*Just to update after this there will be a thread a week about how I'm doing with my new years resolutions.
**I've already done something new: I got my eyebrows threaded today. Which was pretty painful (I don't care who says it's not). But they look pretty awesome!
This year we on our way to owning our first home!
I have no doubts that 2010 will be a year we will always remember. As we make our first home together, a home that we own, I am excited, nervous, cautious, hopeful, and just plain HAPPY!
The rest of the blogging world did a review of 2009. I'm not going to put anyone through that since I spent most of the year pregnant. I spent a couple months in zombie mode because I wasn't sleeping. And I've spent the last two months or so blogging consistently enough for you to get a good idea of what our life is like here.
I will do the typical listing of my new years resolutions:
I am going to try to cook one thing I've never made before a week. That's a minimum of 52 new recipes this year.
I am going to try to do one new thing a week. Meaning 52 new things this year.
And as so many people before me have said, I am going to try to be a better person. More patient. More kind. I am going to listen more. And support more.
*Just to update after this there will be a thread a week about how I'm doing with my new years resolutions.
**I've already done something new: I got my eyebrows threaded today. Which was pretty painful (I don't care who says it's not). But they look pretty awesome!
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