So a lot has happened in the past two months...and I mean a lot. Sophia is doing great! She's still in her 3-6 months clothes, but is now in size 3 diapers. She is a maniac in her crib...rolls around like crazy. She sleeps through the night now, until about 5 am. I feed her, change her, and put her back to bed. She just rolls right over onto her side and goes back to sleep. No crying. She does still cry when we put her down at night and for her naps. I thought she was supposed to stop doing that?! Guess not. She LOVES baby food. This past week she's been a horrible eater and extremely cranky - I think it's because we've thrown her schedule off. We've been working on the house everyday so it really has messed things up for her. My parents came to visit at the beginning of July, and it was just in time to see Sophia get her first two teeth! They poked through her gums on July 1st and they are so darn cute. She loves to take her fingernail and click it on her teeth.
Sam and I celebrated our one year anniversary on July 11th. YEAH!!!!! I love him soooo darn much. This year we decided that since we are buying a house, we didn't want to spend much money on presents for each other. We set a $10 budget. I made Sam coupons. Some of which allow him to get out of chores, to have a guys' night at the house while I take Sophia somewhere, free massage, etc. Sam wrote me a letter as if we met in highschool and were passing notes in class. He also made me a paper fortune teller and a first year time capsule out of an old wine bottle. We are going to open up the time capsule on our 2nd anniversary. What great gifts! Our big gift to each other was treating ourselves to dinner and drinks at Bodega - our favorite little spot. This is the place we went the night we got engaged :) We got all dressed up, went to the parking garage rooftop where we got engaged, and then went to dinner. It was a fabulous night and seemed bizarre to be away from Sophia all evening.
Oh, I said something about working on a house didn't I? We bought a house! FINALLY! It was the longest, most outrageous, frustrating, ridiculous ride, but we are happy to have a home now. I won't go into details, but basically we had the world's worst mortgage company ever. EVER. If you live in the area, never choose Monarch Bank. Just don't, it will save you loads of stress. So yes, we've got a house now. It's about a half mile from my sister's house. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1650 sq ft, brick ranch, wood burning fireplace, screened in porch, fenced in back yard. The house is awesome, and it's even better now that we've started to make it our own. We've done lots of little things to improve the house and to suit our tastes. We've painted...everything except one bathroom (the horrible bathroom with a pink sink, pink toilet, pink shower, pink floor tile, pink wall tile, and a pink floral border). We will wait to demo that bathroom until we've got more money saved up. We painted the kitchen a beautiful yellow (Behr's wildflower honey). We just ordered some tile today to do a backsplash. We are hoping to change the cabinet hardware to an oil rubbed bronze, but it's not a priority. We'll keep our eyes out for something cheap on ebay. We painted our dining room an orange color (Behr's apple crisp) and hung a new chandelier that we used our pottery barn wedding gift cards on....before we even had a house. In the living room we have painted the walls - stripes. There is no lighting in the room, so we bought a ceiling fan with lights and hopefully Mark will be able to help us install it. Sophia's room has been painted green and a white ceiling fan was installed. The guest bedroom is currently being painted a light blue and will be getting a ceiling fan put up tomorrow hopefully. The master bedroom is a wonderful, gray/brown and the master bath is a blue color. We put up a ceiling fan in the master as well. All of the doors in the house will be painted white and we've bought new oil rubbed bronze door knobs for them. We are also in the process of changing all the outlets and switches to white. There was a mish mash of painted over or ivory receptacles. They were definitely originals to the house. We put up a ceiling fan in the screened-in porch. That's a lot of changes! Everything looks great, but I'm still anxious about the house. I love our apartment and will be sad to leave it. I'm sure I'll get over it quickly. We'll be able to have a dining room table up again, have people over, we have a yard now, and our money will be going towards something that will build equity, instead of our landlord's pocket book. We won't have neighbors above us who always tend to start making noise when Sophia is down for a nap, or trying to go to bed. We'll be soooooo much closer to my sister! So anyway, it will bittersweet I'm sure. We are still not packed up yet, and probably won't move anything to the house until the paint smell airs out...because even I get a headache from it. It's pretty bad. We have to pay rent on our apartment for August anyway, so we'll just take our time and hopefully have a less stressful move. AND we may as well keep using the water here to shower etc since we don't have to pay for it. Lol.
Okay, enjoy the pictures!!!!
Sophia's teeth poked through today 7-1-09
She still loves bath time! ...but is getting a little small for her tub
In one of her cute 4th of July onesies
Dad, Sam, me, Sophia, and Mom 7-5-09
Check out those little teeth!
Out to dinner for our 1st anniversary!
Getting the keys to the house! 7-24-09
Putting our first strokes of paint on the dining room wall 7-24-09
Sam & Mark putting up the fan in Sophia's room
Our awesome kitchen
Our beautiful new dining room
The master bedroom (in progress)
Finished master bathroom
The living room stripes!
The travertine tile that will go on our backsplash
This is what walking on the beach looks like every morning. Ahhhmazing.
Sam walking in the water.
A great toy!
I'm in rare form. I hardly every actually dry my hair, get dressed, and put makeup on. I used to do this daily....now it's maybe once a week.
Such beautiful eyes.
Mount Trashmore on a gorgeous afternoon.
I love my husband.
Playing with the grass...
Family picture at Mt. Trashmore 9-27-09
These two are the loves of my life.
I just love being HER mommy.
