Elias Singing Veggie Tales

Elias looooves his Veggie Tales movies! He tries hard to keep up with the song. One day he'll be able to do it :)

Naughty dog

Oh, I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas.

Mommy and Daddy are mad.

I'm gettin' nuttin' for Christmas,

'Cause I ain't been nuttin but bad.

Growing Gavin and Our New House!

Every time I sit down to type up a post, something happens and I can never get anything out! So I'm gonna keep this short and sweet, because I think a little boy playing on the floor on his playmat might need a diaper change...here we go!

Gavin is 5 months now, and I missed posting his 4 month picture as well as his "stats". At his check up, he was 15lbs 2oz and 24 1/4 in. long! He's a chunker for sure! He's almost grown out of his 3-6mo clothes, and is fitting more snuggly every day into 6mo clothes. He is SO alert and active, not to mention happy 95% of time! He's rolling from his tummy to back pretty seamlessly now, and has rolled from back to tummy once or twice. Here's our little butterball's 4 month photos!

I haven't had a chance to upload his 5 month photo, but I do have a little video! As far as his stats go, since he doesn't have another doctors appointment until 6 months, I really think he's probably almost 16lbs. He's eating 10-12 oz before bed now, which I'm sure contributes to his (generally) blissful 10 hours of sleep every night. He's sitting up on his own for a good 20 seconds on his own, so I'm thinking maybe by Christmas he'll be able to sit up pretty well. He's starting to eat some baby cereal, although just like his brother did, he only likes it when flavored with some fruit.

In other news, we made an offer on a house we love and they accepted! It was a nerve-wracking few days while we waited to hear back because there was another offer we were up against, but ours was stronger, so they accepted our offer! We've submitted all the paperwork and documentation needed, and now we're just waiting for the underwriters approval to move forward with settlement!

The house is perfect for us. Its about 2400 sq feet, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, master bathroom with jacuazzi tub, huge master closet, finished basement, perfectly square backyard, generous sized kitchen with lots of counter space, an office, dining room, and nice big family room with a beautiful brick fireplace. There's space above the family room on the second floor that at the moment is basically a huge unfinished storage room, but if we end up needing another bedroom, it would pretty easily be made into a 4th bedroom, so there's definitely space to grow in this house! The kitchen cabinets are nice and new, but we need to replace the laminate countertops  so over Thanksgiving weekend we went to a granite showroom and picked out a beautiful slab that is now all ours and will be installed once we have the keys to the house! As soon we get the keys, we're going to get someone to come in and move the laundry from our basement to our big closet in our bedroom. The other thing we have to do right away is put in a fence, so we've been getting a few quotes from difference companies to get the best rate.  We'll do some changes to the landscaping in the spring (ie: move the rose bush and take out those two bushy bright green bushes on either side of the office window and replace with some different scrubs) Our mortgage agent is pretty confident we can settle and move in by Christmas. The home inspection went superbly well, with only a few minor things needing attention, like the lock on the electrical box and a piece of siding up near the roof that blew off during the hurricane. Other than that, the house is really great shape as far as everyone can tell. The appraisal went really well as well. It appraised for a lot more than we're paying for, so that;s instant equity for us! The current owner never actually lived in this house. They bought it from a foreclosure auction and did some updating and then put it back on the market 4 months later, so its really in great shape.

Elias had a cough that turned into pneumonia over Thanksgiving, so that wasn't much fun for him. We ended up in urgent care black Friday for a few hours, then were back to our pediatrician a few days later to listen to his chest to see if he was getting any better. He didn't sound good at all, so she sent us home with a nebulizer to use 3-4 times a day. For the first day or two, Elias really fought us and screamed for the whole treatment, but then he was totally calm as long as he had his new favorite show, Imagination Movers, on the IPad to watch.