Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
JUMPEROO
Luke seems to have a bit of a problem... his chunky little 5 month old body, is not able to keep up with his fast developing mind. Our little monkey, is just that... a monkey - he has a very inquisitive nature, and he wants to be everywhere, in everything, doing anything but being stuck on his back where he can't see everything going on around him. His eyes are always wide open, his head is always looking around, and his little feet just cannot stay still for more than a second. Our little boys brain is just buzzing with curiosity and interest. Unfortunately, at not even 5 months old, he is still months away from being able to crawl or move around. This leaves Jake and I with the task of constantly having to entertain Luke, to keep him from getting bored and frustrated. As a solution, we bought him a Fisher Price Jumperoo...this, while not getting him from a to b, at least allows him to be upright, so he can see everything going on, and allows him to burn some energy jumping as much as he wants. Hopefully this will enable us to be more productive, while he hopefully entertains himself a little more.
We only got the Jumperoo a few days ago, but Luke already seems to be getting the hang of it... hopefully he will get many fun hours out of it, and it will temporarily satisfy his need for mobility until he is able to crawl. I never thought I would say this, but I am genuinely excited for the time that he can move around, and is able to busily get into everything...unpacking our dvd cupboard, pulling our books off the shelf, and rearranging our tupperware cupboard... anything that will keep our little energizer bunny entertained. LOL
We only got the Jumperoo a few days ago, but Luke already seems to be getting the hang of it... hopefully he will get many fun hours out of it, and it will temporarily satisfy his need for mobility until he is able to crawl. I never thought I would say this, but I am genuinely excited for the time that he can move around, and is able to busily get into everything...unpacking our dvd cupboard, pulling our books off the shelf, and rearranging our tupperware cupboard... anything that will keep our little energizer bunny entertained. LOL
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
STARVING LITTLE MONKEY
Just a cute video of Luke eating some of his daddy's banana...
Listen carefully to the sounds he makes... you'd think my child hasn't seen food in weeks.
Listen carefully to the sounds he makes... you'd think my child hasn't seen food in weeks.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
FUNNY CHAOS
Things in our lives are very fast paced and crazy right now, with Luke, the new job, new house, moving, etc etc etc... I feel like I am trying to juggle too many balls, and sometimes my brain just fails to keep up and I have 'mommy brain moments'... tonight I had one of those moments.
I have been sitting for a while this evening, reading some very useful blogs about food storage, emergency preparedness and other handy ideas for moms etc... so in addition to all the things already going on in my small brain, I now have all these crazy ideas swirling around about me becoming some kind of super mom, getting completely on top of my food storage, learning to sew, having a vegetable garden, canning fruits etc etc etc...anyway, while in the midst of my swirling brain activity, Jake asked me to go get Lukes pacifier for him... he was trying to put Luke to sleep in the rocking chair. So I put my laptop down, go fetch the pacifier and walk back to the living room with the pacifier and while apologizing to Jake about how badly distracted I have been tonight, proceed to try and put the pacifier into JAKES' mouth... only when Jake looks at me oddly and starts to laugh do I realise what I am doing. LOL.... my brain is so tired, and just can't keep up, but it does give us the occasional reason to laugh.
I have been sitting for a while this evening, reading some very useful blogs about food storage, emergency preparedness and other handy ideas for moms etc... so in addition to all the things already going on in my small brain, I now have all these crazy ideas swirling around about me becoming some kind of super mom, getting completely on top of my food storage, learning to sew, having a vegetable garden, canning fruits etc etc etc...anyway, while in the midst of my swirling brain activity, Jake asked me to go get Lukes pacifier for him... he was trying to put Luke to sleep in the rocking chair. So I put my laptop down, go fetch the pacifier and walk back to the living room with the pacifier and while apologizing to Jake about how badly distracted I have been tonight, proceed to try and put the pacifier into JAKES' mouth... only when Jake looks at me oddly and starts to laugh do I realise what I am doing. LOL.... my brain is so tired, and just can't keep up, but it does give us the occasional reason to laugh.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
OUR FIRST HOUSE
Jake and I are very excited. We have just arrived back from North Carolina, after a fast paced week of house hunting, and we have come back happy to announce that we have bought our first house. The closing date on the house is 23 October, so hopefully everything goes well with that.
The house is in Elm City, which is a small town, in a pretty rural area, about 20 minutes outside of Rocky Mount, and Wilson which are 2 bigger cities nearby. The house is on a 1 acre lot, has 3 official bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, dining room, big kitchen and an extra room that can be a 4th bedroom, den, office...whatever. It has a covered porch out back, and an above ground swimming pool, with LOTS of back yard to do things with. We are sooo excited to own our first home and get all set up. The new house will be pretty empty for a while though, because we don't have nearly enough furniture to fill up a full sized family home. We were even more thrilled to get a great interest rate on our mortgage. We got a fixed rate of only 4.875% , so that will make the 'burden' of our mortgage so much more bearable.
Here are some pictures. These are both pictures that I took, as well as pictures from the listing, so they are all of the home with the current owners furniture still in. I will update pictures in a few months when we are moved in with our stuff.
The house is in Elm City, which is a small town, in a pretty rural area, about 20 minutes outside of Rocky Mount, and Wilson which are 2 bigger cities nearby. The house is on a 1 acre lot, has 3 official bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a living room, dining room, big kitchen and an extra room that can be a 4th bedroom, den, office...whatever. It has a covered porch out back, and an above ground swimming pool, with LOTS of back yard to do things with. We are sooo excited to own our first home and get all set up. The new house will be pretty empty for a while though, because we don't have nearly enough furniture to fill up a full sized family home. We were even more thrilled to get a great interest rate on our mortgage. We got a fixed rate of only 4.875% , so that will make the 'burden' of our mortgage so much more bearable.
Here are some pictures. These are both pictures that I took, as well as pictures from the listing, so they are all of the home with the current owners furniture still in. I will update pictures in a few months when we are moved in with our stuff.
OUR SOON TO BE NEW HOME
THE BIG BACK YARD
BACK PORCH
DINING ROOM
BEAUTIFUL KITCHEN
ABOVE GROUND POOL
LIVING ROOM
OTHER SIDE OF THE LIVING ROOM
4TH BEDROOM/DEN/OFFICE
MASTER BEDROOM
MASTER BATHROOM
MAIN BATHROOM
Sunday, September 6, 2009
PARK DAY
On Friday, Jake and I met some friends at a local park for a couple hours.
They had some baby swings, so I tried Luke out in one. No surprise, he loved it, so he hung out in the swing until he fell asleep.
They had some baby swings, so I tried Luke out in one. No surprise, he loved it, so he hung out in the swing until he fell asleep.
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