Oh, it is quite the roller coaster ride trying to get rid of our house and finding a new home. We lowered the price on our home another $10,000 and still no one is even coming to look at it, let alone make an offer so I think Allen is putting the 3rd bedroom wall back up this weekend. It's just so defeating because we put so much work into this home over the past 7 years and to know we are going to lose so much on it.....it's just sad. We've already started the short sale process, I'm praying we don't end up having to foreclose.
Looking for a new home is a whole other story. We have seen close to 40 homes by now and I need to let go of the fact that no house is going to be perfect, especially in our price range to get into the area we want. I just need to focus on getting into a good neighborhood with great schools, and eventually, down the road, we can make whatever house we purchase the home of our dreams. I just think I'm still stuck on that house in Oxford we didn't get and now every house I see I am comparing to that house which isn't helping.
Enough of that dribble, lets focus on the most important and fun news, Austin and Connor:) We've begun and stalled the potty training process with Austin. I've been reading this book called "Stress Free Potty Training" (yeah, right) and you answer a series of questions to figure out how to best work with your child's unique personality to potty train him/her. So they said for 2 weeks have "practice"scheduled potty times during the day in which your child tries to go but is still in their diapers. This actually went quite well, most of the time Austin would pee and twice he went poop. Well after the 2 weeks we switched to underpants exclusively, using pull-ups at nap and bedtime only. Austin loved his new undies and every 25-30 min. I would have him go sit on the potty and try, we even made sure to bring his travel potty into each room with him to minimize accidents. Well to my surprise Austin thought this whole process was extremely funny and he would sit on the potty like I asked but never go and then a few minutes later he would be standing two feet from his potty laughing and peeing all over the place. And he would never initiate going to the potty on his own, even though we talked about what our bodies feel like when it's time to go and you could tell he knew when it was about to happen. This continued for 3 or 4 days and after talking to some great parents who have been there and done that, we decided to stop the potty training for a few weeks, take the pressure off and try again later. Austin's newest thing is asking us what everything is made of, from food to toys, you name it. He is a very curious guy:)
While all this has been going on, Connor has been teething like mad. I feel so bad for him, he is constantly chewing on his fingers and fists. The orajel doesn't seem to help and with Austin we used to put water in the nipples of his pacifiers and freeze them but Connor doesn't like that either so I'm getting out the mesh bag teether's tonight that you put ice cubes in and see if maybe that will work because he sure doesn't like any of the other zillion teether's we have. Connor loves sitting up now. He can only do it on his own for a few seconds but I can prop him up in his boppy and we got the highchair out last night and he LOVES it! He is getting really good at rolling up onto his side from his back and he almost gets all the way over but not quite:) A couple days ago I finally cut that long tail of hair off that was growing down his back! I didn't do too good of a job and Allen was laughing at me and had to try and fix the crooked look I had going on.
We're all set for Halloween, I can't wait to post the pictures next week!
Looking for a new home is a whole other story. We have seen close to 40 homes by now and I need to let go of the fact that no house is going to be perfect, especially in our price range to get into the area we want. I just need to focus on getting into a good neighborhood with great schools, and eventually, down the road, we can make whatever house we purchase the home of our dreams. I just think I'm still stuck on that house in Oxford we didn't get and now every house I see I am comparing to that house which isn't helping.
Enough of that dribble, lets focus on the most important and fun news, Austin and Connor:) We've begun and stalled the potty training process with Austin. I've been reading this book called "Stress Free Potty Training" (yeah, right) and you answer a series of questions to figure out how to best work with your child's unique personality to potty train him/her. So they said for 2 weeks have "practice"scheduled potty times during the day in which your child tries to go but is still in their diapers. This actually went quite well, most of the time Austin would pee and twice he went poop. Well after the 2 weeks we switched to underpants exclusively, using pull-ups at nap and bedtime only. Austin loved his new undies and every 25-30 min. I would have him go sit on the potty and try, we even made sure to bring his travel potty into each room with him to minimize accidents. Well to my surprise Austin thought this whole process was extremely funny and he would sit on the potty like I asked but never go and then a few minutes later he would be standing two feet from his potty laughing and peeing all over the place. And he would never initiate going to the potty on his own, even though we talked about what our bodies feel like when it's time to go and you could tell he knew when it was about to happen. This continued for 3 or 4 days and after talking to some great parents who have been there and done that, we decided to stop the potty training for a few weeks, take the pressure off and try again later. Austin's newest thing is asking us what everything is made of, from food to toys, you name it. He is a very curious guy:)
While all this has been going on, Connor has been teething like mad. I feel so bad for him, he is constantly chewing on his fingers and fists. The orajel doesn't seem to help and with Austin we used to put water in the nipples of his pacifiers and freeze them but Connor doesn't like that either so I'm getting out the mesh bag teether's tonight that you put ice cubes in and see if maybe that will work because he sure doesn't like any of the other zillion teether's we have. Connor loves sitting up now. He can only do it on his own for a few seconds but I can prop him up in his boppy and we got the highchair out last night and he LOVES it! He is getting really good at rolling up onto his side from his back and he almost gets all the way over but not quite:) A couple days ago I finally cut that long tail of hair off that was growing down his back! I didn't do too good of a job and Allen was laughing at me and had to try and fix the crooked look I had going on.
We're all set for Halloween, I can't wait to post the pictures next week!
