We've ben really busy over the past few weeks. Our house is under contract, so we've spent a lot of time consumed with house-hunting and mortgage applications and all of that good stuff. The good news is that we got a really good offer on our house, and we've put earnest money down on the new house. The bad news is that I'm going to have to move at the beginning of the school year. It's going to be well worth it, though.
We just got our inspection report in with the list of things that they want us to fix in our current house. The first item is having our HVAC serviced. No big deal. The second one annoys me, though. The dishwasher was running when the inspector showed up. It was on the "pots and pans" cycle. The inspector wanted to see if it would switch cycles, so he pressed the "normal" button and it didn't switch cycles. Umm, yeah. That would be because it was already in the middle of a cycle, so if you want it to change cycles you'd have to press "cancel" and then "normal". The buyers now want me to get an appliance repair person out to fix a dishwasher that isn't broken. It switches cycles just fine if you know how to use the dishwasher-- I just checked. Annoying! The good news is that those are the only two things on our repair list, so I guess I can't be too upset.
The new place is 2225 square feet, 4/2.5/2 with a game room and a HUGE yard. It's got stone on all 4 sides, established trees in the back yard, and the builder put in some nice upgrades and incentives like a sprinkler system and a free front-loading washer and dryer. It's about a half block away from the community playground, which will be so awesome once Grant is big enough for it. We talked them down $17,000 from their original asking price, so I'm happy about that, too. Once we get through the stress of moving, I think it's going to be awesome.
A friend of mine asked me if we were planning on having more kids to fill up all of the bedrooms at our new house. The answer to that is "yes and no". We're planning one more baby and will probably try again when Grant is about 2ish, so that's the "yes" part. The "no" part is that we probably won't have more than one more (unless, God forbid, I end up with twins or something). It makes me a little sad to think that I'll only be raising two kids, but Jacob and I are both in agreement that the odds of having another baby with a left-sided heart defect are just a little too high for us to be comfortable with taking the risk more than once more. Why a 4 bedroom house if we're only planning one more kid? We figure we'll have one bedroom for each child and a guest room.
Grant hit several major milestones in the past week. He's now pulling himself all the way up to standing, furniture creeping, and can climb up onto the landing of my stairwell. He's decided that he's too big for baby food and will only allow you to feed him if you put something on the high chair tray that he can feed to himself and give him spoonfuls in between bites. He's also all of a sudden turned into a major momma's boy and will bury his head in my shoulder if someone he doesn't know talks to him. And, my favorite development of this week: he's been making a roaring noise when he plays that just cracks me up. I have no idea where it came from, but it's adorable.
That's about all that's going on here. It's back to work for me on Monday, so I'm sure I'll have more to say soon :).
We just got our inspection report in with the list of things that they want us to fix in our current house. The first item is having our HVAC serviced. No big deal. The second one annoys me, though. The dishwasher was running when the inspector showed up. It was on the "pots and pans" cycle. The inspector wanted to see if it would switch cycles, so he pressed the "normal" button and it didn't switch cycles. Umm, yeah. That would be because it was already in the middle of a cycle, so if you want it to change cycles you'd have to press "cancel" and then "normal". The buyers now want me to get an appliance repair person out to fix a dishwasher that isn't broken. It switches cycles just fine if you know how to use the dishwasher-- I just checked. Annoying! The good news is that those are the only two things on our repair list, so I guess I can't be too upset.
The new place is 2225 square feet, 4/2.5/2 with a game room and a HUGE yard. It's got stone on all 4 sides, established trees in the back yard, and the builder put in some nice upgrades and incentives like a sprinkler system and a free front-loading washer and dryer. It's about a half block away from the community playground, which will be so awesome once Grant is big enough for it. We talked them down $17,000 from their original asking price, so I'm happy about that, too. Once we get through the stress of moving, I think it's going to be awesome.
A friend of mine asked me if we were planning on having more kids to fill up all of the bedrooms at our new house. The answer to that is "yes and no". We're planning one more baby and will probably try again when Grant is about 2ish, so that's the "yes" part. The "no" part is that we probably won't have more than one more (unless, God forbid, I end up with twins or something). It makes me a little sad to think that I'll only be raising two kids, but Jacob and I are both in agreement that the odds of having another baby with a left-sided heart defect are just a little too high for us to be comfortable with taking the risk more than once more. Why a 4 bedroom house if we're only planning one more kid? We figure we'll have one bedroom for each child and a guest room.
Grant hit several major milestones in the past week. He's now pulling himself all the way up to standing, furniture creeping, and can climb up onto the landing of my stairwell. He's decided that he's too big for baby food and will only allow you to feed him if you put something on the high chair tray that he can feed to himself and give him spoonfuls in between bites. He's also all of a sudden turned into a major momma's boy and will bury his head in my shoulder if someone he doesn't know talks to him. And, my favorite development of this week: he's been making a roaring noise when he plays that just cracks me up. I have no idea where it came from, but it's adorable.
That's about all that's going on here. It's back to work for me on Monday, so I'm sure I'll have more to say soon :).
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