Daniel spit up a lot as a little baby. He spit up so much that burp cloths were the limiting factor for doing laundry, and we have about 30 of them. It never really bothered me too much. It was just a fact of life. Well, I must be coming out of the fog that has been the last two weeks because I finally remembered why I was so behind at the beginning of this week. Last weekend, when my parents were here, Daniel was waking up in the middle of the night. I keep checking for molars, but none have appeared. On Friday night, Daniel was up from 2:00 until 3:30 am. I am really out of shape for middle of the night duty. When I had to get up to nurse, I was fine, but now I'm totally a zombie with mush for brains.
Rule #1 - If your baby normally sleeps through the night, they will get up if you have out of town company in the next room.
Anyway, Saturday night was fine, but Sunday night was the real killer. We heard Daniel crying at 4 am, so I went in to check on him. As soon as I walked in the door, I knew something was wrong. His room smelled horribble, and it was a new smell. It was vomit, and it was everywhere. I had to get Matt up to help. I was on baby duty, he was on carpet and crib clean-up duty. Whe had no idea what to do. It's 4 am, the baby is scared and upset, we are still pretty much asleep. My Dad got up to help out. He's reading "What to Expect the First Year." It was a regular three-ring circus on Monday morning. Why does the first vomit have to be in the middle of the night? It must be some parenting right of passage. I ended up sleeping in the rocker with Daniel until morning. It was a little chilly, and there were no big blankets around, so I had a baby blanket on each limb. I can only imagine what it looked like - me and Daniel in a pile of assorted baby blankets.
Rule #2 - Things like vomit and blow-outs always happen at inopportune moments.
I can only assume that babies are so cute, like in the video below, so that when you have to do real dirty parenting tasks, you do them with love. About the video - Matt taught Daniel this head bobbing thing, and he loves it. He does it all the time and loves it when you do it back to him.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Life's a blur, but I think this is what happened.
So about a week ago, we had a party for Daniel. He loved the balloons. Thankfully none of them were popped by Daniel.
On Wednesday, we had to frantically clean the house because we thought there was a showing on Thursday. This is the only reason the house was somewhat clean when Kelly arrived on Thursday. Otherwise, I would have been cleaning the house on Friday morning before my parents arrived. It turned out that the showing was cancelled because our house is pretty much sold (yipee!). Daniel was really excited about the Swiffer duster. It kept him occupied while I cleaned at least three rooms. Look at the happy guy! What a ragamuffin! His mother should put some real clothes on him :)
On Thursday Kelly arrived. On Friday my parents arrived. The men golfed on Saturday, and the Milwaukee Mahoney's came over for dinner. The weather was beautiful, and we all had a great time.
Here is a picutre of the Lee men on Easter Sunday. Daniel was having fun with his Grandfather.
We went to the park and played on the swings after eating our wonderful Easter brunch that Peggy made.
Daniel tried to climb down the slide. He is totally a silly goose. I wish I had more pictures with my parents and Kelly in them. They must all be on Kelly and Mom's camera. I'll have to wait for them to be emailed before I can put them up here. It is always sad to see my family go, but it was really a treat to have them here!
On Wednesday, we had to frantically clean the house because we thought there was a showing on Thursday. This is the only reason the house was somewhat clean when Kelly arrived on Thursday. Otherwise, I would have been cleaning the house on Friday morning before my parents arrived. It turned out that the showing was cancelled because our house is pretty much sold (yipee!). Daniel was really excited about the Swiffer duster. It kept him occupied while I cleaned at least three rooms. Look at the happy guy! What a ragamuffin! His mother should put some real clothes on him :)On Thursday Kelly arrived. On Friday my parents arrived. The men golfed on Saturday, and the Milwaukee Mahoney's came over for dinner. The weather was beautiful, and we all had a great time.
Here is a picutre of the Lee men on Easter Sunday. Daniel was having fun with his Grandfather. We went to the park and played on the swings after eating our wonderful Easter brunch that Peggy made.Daniel tried to climb down the slide. He is totally a silly goose. I wish I had more pictures with my parents and Kelly in them. They must all be on Kelly and Mom's camera. I'll have to wait for them to be emailed before I can put them up here. It is always sad to see my family go, but it was really a treat to have them here!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Happy 1st Birthday Daniel!
Daniel had a wonderful first birthday. He was amazingly pleasant today. He was in a really good mood and ate and slept like a champ. When most mealtimes end with the floor being mopped, eating like a champ is priceless. We had a little party for him over lunch today, and he loved all the attention. Daniel is a total ham. He must take after his father in that respect. I hope to make a little movie of the cupcake eating, but for now, here is a video of him with one of his new favorite toys. As you can see, he already has it down. I think the reason he is so interested in phones, he got three today, is that I'm always on the phone. Most mornings and evenings, Daniel and I talk to his Grammy on the phone. It is just good that he has one of his own to hold on to since everytime I give him the real phone he pushes the mute button or hangs up.
Birthday Party Prep
Here is a little video of Daniel enjoying some pre-party prep. Let's hope that everything works out today. We have a little food stuff yet to do, and it is supposed to snow 4 inches today. Hopefully everyone will make it safely.
Friday, April 3, 2009
I think we have a house
Sometimes I wonder what possessed us to move in the first place. I mean, all in all the process is going quite well, but it is so stressful. (If there were a way to virtually knock on wood, I would because I don't want to jinx us, but I'm going to share anyway because I'm kind of excited about the status.) We accepted an offer on our house less than a month after we listed. I think it was last Saturday night, and we listed March 6. I know our realtors would kill me for not knowing the exact days on the market, but I don't. I've started delegating remembering details to as many people as possible. Anyway, it only took 6 counteroffers, but we did it with a relatively small amount of pain. There is still a long way to go before the house is really sold, but all signs point to yes at this moment.
On the buying side, we went to see a house that we really liked last Sunday. We decided to go back and see it and a couple other favorites on Monday evening. We still liked the house on Monday and decided to put in an offer sometime on Tuesday. Tuesday around noon we heard that there was motion on our desired house, so we really had to rush to put together our offer. We also had to increase our offer to make it more desirable because now we were competing for the house and they were offering a lot more than we were. Meanwhile Daniel and I were displaced because of a showing. Peggy graciously watched Daniel and put him down for a nap while I drove to the First Weber office to sign the papers, looking fantastic I might add in my post-swimming wet hair, no makeup look. It's really how everyone should look when trying to make major purchases. So we got the offer in, and Daniel and I returned to our house to finish out the day. Now keep in mind that it took about 10 days of counteroffers plus countless phone calls to sell our house, so I was not expecting anything to happen too quickly on our offer.
So at 5 pm I get a phone call saying that the sellers drove in from Milwaukee to hear the offer and their agent thinks they will be interested, but they have the other higher offer on the table and someone else (a third person) is at the house to see if they want to make another offer that night. Great, we are low man on the totem pole, and now I get to wait more. It's a wonder that I didn't eat all the desserts in my house. At 6:30 pm I get another phone call asking if we will accept a counteroffer at $1,000 above the price Matt and I had set at our top limit. When you are talking about a house, $1,000 really is not that much. I was so excited that a few tears welled up in my eyes. We said yes, and by 9 pm we had signed the papers accepting the offer. 9 days for one deal, 9 hours for the other. Talk about anxiety! It took my chest days to relax.
Matt and I really feel like we got this house for a great price, and it has everything we want. It is in a great neighborhood, has tons of space, and needs minimal work. We will have to do some painting and flooring, but nothing major. Honestly, I never thought we would end up in a house this wonderful. We still have the inspections and appraisals on both houses left, so nothing is certain. The closing date for both deals is May 15. We will know a lot more after Tuesday when we hear back from the inspection on our current house and have the inspection for the new house.
I really think that God was on our side for this deal. We found out that the owners of the new house are a super Catholic family, and they were really happy to hear that another Catholic family would be moving in. They have five children. I wonder if they think we will have five, too? I really think our Catholicism is part of the reason that they have been so easy to work with on the sale. They are even willing to let us paint and possibly move some stuff in before the closing date. My Papa got a house in a similar situation when my Dad was a kid. Funny huh? The other strange thing is that this house has been on Matt's list forever, and I've never been willing to go see it. For one reason or another, we just never made it there. I was finally willing to go see it, and the timing was right. I can't wait to post pictures of the new house, but I'm going to wait just a little bit.
Anyway, this whole house selling and buying has made our life a total mess, not to mention Daniel's 1st birthday and Easter with my family here. I feel so guilty about all the time we have drug Daniel around to houses or had to leave him with someone while we are doing house stuff. If we do in fact get this house, we shouldn't have to move for a long time. All the guilt will be worth it. Also, thank goodness for my inlaws! I don't know how we would get through this without them. It is truely a blessing to have people who love Daniel so much and are willing to help out so close by. The sad thing is that I think we are just at the beginning of the process, and I'm already feeling guilty.
By the way, Matt is out of town and has been since Wednesday, so I could make this post go on forever if I wanted to, but I'm going to stop now. He was supposed to be home tonight, but got stuck because of weather. Hopefully he will make it back early tomorrow.
On the buying side, we went to see a house that we really liked last Sunday. We decided to go back and see it and a couple other favorites on Monday evening. We still liked the house on Monday and decided to put in an offer sometime on Tuesday. Tuesday around noon we heard that there was motion on our desired house, so we really had to rush to put together our offer. We also had to increase our offer to make it more desirable because now we were competing for the house and they were offering a lot more than we were. Meanwhile Daniel and I were displaced because of a showing. Peggy graciously watched Daniel and put him down for a nap while I drove to the First Weber office to sign the papers, looking fantastic I might add in my post-swimming wet hair, no makeup look. It's really how everyone should look when trying to make major purchases. So we got the offer in, and Daniel and I returned to our house to finish out the day. Now keep in mind that it took about 10 days of counteroffers plus countless phone calls to sell our house, so I was not expecting anything to happen too quickly on our offer.
So at 5 pm I get a phone call saying that the sellers drove in from Milwaukee to hear the offer and their agent thinks they will be interested, but they have the other higher offer on the table and someone else (a third person) is at the house to see if they want to make another offer that night. Great, we are low man on the totem pole, and now I get to wait more. It's a wonder that I didn't eat all the desserts in my house. At 6:30 pm I get another phone call asking if we will accept a counteroffer at $1,000 above the price Matt and I had set at our top limit. When you are talking about a house, $1,000 really is not that much. I was so excited that a few tears welled up in my eyes. We said yes, and by 9 pm we had signed the papers accepting the offer. 9 days for one deal, 9 hours for the other. Talk about anxiety! It took my chest days to relax.
Matt and I really feel like we got this house for a great price, and it has everything we want. It is in a great neighborhood, has tons of space, and needs minimal work. We will have to do some painting and flooring, but nothing major. Honestly, I never thought we would end up in a house this wonderful. We still have the inspections and appraisals on both houses left, so nothing is certain. The closing date for both deals is May 15. We will know a lot more after Tuesday when we hear back from the inspection on our current house and have the inspection for the new house.
I really think that God was on our side for this deal. We found out that the owners of the new house are a super Catholic family, and they were really happy to hear that another Catholic family would be moving in. They have five children. I wonder if they think we will have five, too? I really think our Catholicism is part of the reason that they have been so easy to work with on the sale. They are even willing to let us paint and possibly move some stuff in before the closing date. My Papa got a house in a similar situation when my Dad was a kid. Funny huh? The other strange thing is that this house has been on Matt's list forever, and I've never been willing to go see it. For one reason or another, we just never made it there. I was finally willing to go see it, and the timing was right. I can't wait to post pictures of the new house, but I'm going to wait just a little bit.
Anyway, this whole house selling and buying has made our life a total mess, not to mention Daniel's 1st birthday and Easter with my family here. I feel so guilty about all the time we have drug Daniel around to houses or had to leave him with someone while we are doing house stuff. If we do in fact get this house, we shouldn't have to move for a long time. All the guilt will be worth it. Also, thank goodness for my inlaws! I don't know how we would get through this without them. It is truely a blessing to have people who love Daniel so much and are willing to help out so close by. The sad thing is that I think we are just at the beginning of the process, and I'm already feeling guilty.
By the way, Matt is out of town and has been since Wednesday, so I could make this post go on forever if I wanted to, but I'm going to stop now. He was supposed to be home tonight, but got stuck because of weather. Hopefully he will make it back early tomorrow.
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