Charlie's first "real" haircut

I've generally been happy to just trim Charlie's hair myself. Until somewhat recently she had some cute big baby curls in her long hair, but as she's gotten older they have gone away. *sobbing* Oh how I loved those curls! Cursed with pin-straight fine blond hair myself, I desperately hoped that she had gotten Dave's wavy blond curls instead. Grass is always greener, and all that. So anyway, her longer hair tends to look stringy quickly, so I took her today to get it cut into a short bob. Of course, we had to have a photo shoot!





And my poor baby boy who is now nearly completely bald...but in his defense, he is growing new hair at a wicked fast rate! It feels like peach fuzz now and I see quite a bit of it in the light. Still, sigh.

Another house update

They aren't going to make their original Sept 30th close date...but I don't think they'll be too far off. I cannot WAIT to move in! Can I just say how in love with this house I am?? It has more storage space than I think we could ever fill up...hooray! I love the layout. This is pretty much my dream house with the only exception being that in an ideal world I would like more land. Like, acres of it with trees and hills and a breathtaking view. But alas, we cannot afford the house AND the land, so house it is.

The kids were with us as we walked around. Jack repurposed the dining room into a nap area. Charlie followed us around jumping. I'm not sure what it is with kids this age and jumping...this girl would happily spend an hour or more just hopping around. Of course, in our 3rd floor apartment that makes for VERY unhappy neighbors below us...so we've had to make a no jumping rule. :( This makes her very sad (and whiny), so she spends pretty much all of our time outside of the apartment jumping everywhere. Today while she was jumping we learned that she can count to 10...in Spanish. Counting to 10 is not new for her, I think she's up to counting to 100 in ENGLISH, but I had no idea that she could count in Spanish! I think I need to brush up on my Spanish skills, because the child is clearly already smarter than I am and I have to do my best to maintain at least the IMPRESSION that Mommy knows it all.

In the entryway, looking into the dining room:

The great room:
From the kitchen, looking into the nook and playroom:
The master bedroom and "sitting" area:From the back of the yard:

Childless at last

For a little while, at least. My mother in law has taken Jack for several hours so that I can get work done. Let's ignore the fact that I'm posting on my blog instead, m'kay? Charlie-the-drama-queen is at preschool. She's been home for 1.5 days with some unknown ailment, of which the only symptoms seemed to be runny poo and a desire to drive me out of my mind with whining and tantrums. These are the days where I do not relish being a parent. They are also the days where I'm kind of glad that she is not pottytrained yet, because instead of changing 101 dirty diapers, I could have been changing 101 dirty pairs of underwear, pants, and the mess that ensues when you do not have a diaper to contain it. Because I've heard too many stories about how pottytraining can fail when a child is sick, oh yes.

It's a good thing that we love our kids. Same as the dogs...if we didn't love them, then cleaning up after them would be an every day/hour/second nuisance. :o) Not that it isn't still annoying sometimes.

I will hopefully update with another post later with photos of the house. They are making huge stride of progress at this point, which is good considering they're supposed to be finished by the end of the month. *chortle* Not gonna happen, but I give them props for trying. I'm hoping 1st or 2nd week of October.

Male Pattern Baldness...

...sets in early in our family, apparently.

Kid updates

Charlie has settled in pretty well to having a new brother. She's still being a bit more "high maintenance" than usual, but overall I'm very proud of her. She's very sweet on Jack himself, and apparently at her preschool they hear ALL about him.

Here is a picture of her showing that moses baskets aren't JUST for little babies:

And one to prove that she *doesn't* look hungover in EVERY photo we take:

Jack has been great...he generally still sleeps a lot and hasn't been too much of a pain at night. He eats well and is growing, he was 8 pounds 4 oz at his 2-week doctor's appointment! They were amazed, they usually just want to see babies back up to birth weight by that age, but he's put on a pound and a half over that. The boy likes to eat LOL!

The obligatory cute sleeping baby picture:

House update

Casa de Lamy, in progress. It's supposed to be done at the end of this month...we're not holding our breath though. Still, they are making good progress and there is someone working on it every day. I can't wait to move in!!

Handsome boy

Leo and his buddy Scarlett, at our friend's house where he is staying. Such a handsome boy he is. Leo and Scarlett pretty much play NON. STOP...I'm sure that after having that madhouse running around for 2 months, our friends will be ready to give him back! And Leo will probably be bored, because I know that Brady and Lizzie don't play with him THAT much. :o)