November 18, 2008

Max Power!

My sweet baby boy is 11 months old now. He can not be held down. He's constantly climbing up on things and now his favorite place to be is hanging onto the window. He's so happy when he's defying laws of gravity. I hope he grows up to be an astronaut.

He's not walking yet but I bet he will take steps within a week. He's so ready to go. YET!!! He will not hold his own bottle if he can get someone else to do it for him. What a typical male.

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November 8, 2008

5am is the new sleeping in

Ever since the time changed last week I've been getting up before 5. I can't stop wiggling around and trying to readjust and get comfortable. This could have something to do with falling asleep by 8, but even on Friday I woke up earlyish after staying up til TEN to watch grey's anatomy. I think I'm broken. I think I know why, too. I can't stand clutter. I can easily live with the messes of this house tucked sloppily into closets with the door closed quickly to prevent the crap from falling out. I can't live with everything, just ...everywhere.

The upstairs of our house is covered in boxes. Not just any boxes either, these are ABC store boxes. Those people are saints. They loaded up my car 3 times the other day and begged me to come back for more. I will, too! Jake came home the other night to find his room completely filled with empty booze boxes and told Dan that he thought maybe we didn't get the house so we spent all our money on alcohol. haha.

This is the first and last free weekend that we have in a long time so I'm planning on using it wisely. I'm going to force my trifling family to help sort out some crap and get rid of things. They are the collectors of junk, I'm sick of it. I want their stuff GONE. By Sunday you'll hear their cries of agony from miles away. If this fails I'll take a day off and throw their shit away while they're not home. Either way, I will win. Order will be restored.

We got our home inspection done the other day. Things look good. There are a few repairs that need to be made by the bank before we can get it FHA approved, but otherwise there's nothing major wrong with the house. The inspector said that he's never seen so much house for the price and that we're very lucky. I hope he's right...I won't believe it til it happens for real, but for now, we have the key to that sucker, so if any of y'all wanna see the house, we can break in and show you!!

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November 6, 2008

Home is where the debt is...

Here's the house we're sposta get. I now officially love it enough that if something falls through either with the loan process or with the home inspection, I will be heartbroken. If everything goes according to schedule though, we'll be moving in by Dec 10...Max's 1st birthday! Maybe we'll take a few years off before planning anything else huge so that I can have a Christmas free of stress.

Speaking of Christmas...eek. It's not far from now and I'm afraid we're going to only be getting stuff for our kids because we've got all this expense of moving etc. So....we expect the same of our friends, let's just get together and have fun this Christmas rather than spending dough, please? Maybe if we get into the house in time we can have a new years party at our place!

ok, the girl is screaming for warm milk. toodles!

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November 1, 2008

Halloween

We had LOOOOADS of fun. Max was a sock monkey, Tessie was a dinosaur and Kendall was a hippy. We played Goonies on the roof and hardly had any trick or treaters so we have tons to eat! WOOT!

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October 30, 2008

I wake up...get outta bed.

I can't sleep. We've decided to buy a house and we've accepted their counter offer. That means we're buying a house unless something gets hosed during the loan finalization or the home inspection. Oh.my.god. I woke up in a tizzy about it. The house is beyond my wildest dreams so if we end up not getting it I won't be shocked, but if we DO....oh.my.god. I'll giggle right up til the time when that first payment is due. It has a pool. oh.my.god. Send good vibes and paypal donations pls.

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Work has been great. I'm busy but happy. Here's a funny email that came yesterday:

Is there a way to find out who typed "i'm rick james bitch" as the login for MTP or would I have to login to each machine to see which one has that listed as a login? UGH!!!

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Halloween has been fun so far. We went to gayle and wil's party and had a great time dancing in the living room. I don't like this holiday but their party and our new tradition of playing movies on the roof on Halloween night has made it better. Tess is either a kangaroo, dinosaur or dragon this year and my mom called yesterday to say she's gotten Max a monkey costume. Kendall's a hippy. Maddy, Doug, Gayle, Will, and all of their kids and my folks will all be coming over to trick-or-treat so it should be a good time. I'm so glad it's on a Friday this year!

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Pampered Chef selling has been going pretty well. I've had some parties and made back all of the money I spent buying the starting up kit PLUS I earned $200 in free stuff which I promptly spent. I only have one more party lined up though, that's Gayle's on the 16th. I need to book more shows or I need to take some time off to get myself ready for moving. eek.

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ALSO: I've made a bold step in trying to prepare for being house-poor. I'm going to find a cheap beer that I can live with. We all have to make sacrifices and this is a biggie for me. Suggestions other than miller light are welcome. I'm finding that yeuengingalingaling in the can is more tolerable than the bottle.

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October 28, 2008

Max, the lady killer at 10 months old

So now that Max is almost 11 months old I guess it's time to update him.

He's not walking yet but can stand without holding onto things. He has 4 teeth and is not afraid to use them. This week he bit dan and suzie! I think that means more teeth are on the way.

He barely says mama but it's in there and he doesn't like to hold his bottle but he can. This max might have a case of the lazy-obrien-boy-gene.

I believe max is waiting til he's 11 months old to walk so that he can be like his siblings. He's ready to go though!

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