We took the plunge...

And finally bought a HOUSE!!!!!

We closed this afternoon and I am so so so excited to finally get out of this apartment and into my new house! It's a 3 bedroom, with a finished basement and attached one car garage. Totally perfect for our little family. The back yard is just big enough for a deck and someday a swing set.. and hopefully a little garden in the back corner. :) Hubby is dying to get over there and change the locks (the previous owner rented for a while, and who knows who has spare keys...) and buy a grill. Yes that will be our first purchase, a lovely grill. I cannot wait! Oh and best of the best part? We are officially moving Wednesday so that means Deep. Fried. Turkey!!!!! For thanksgiving!!!!!! We haven't been able to do that for several years and I miss is oh so much. Plus it will be Abi's first deep fried turkey! I don't know if we'll be having anything with said turkey other than maybe mashed potatoes, lol. Oh and canned cranberry sauce. It works for me I'm just ecstatic that I'll be decorating a home for Christmas this year! Can. Not. Wait!!!!!!!!!! Photos to come soon!

18 months old!

Holy crap my baby is a year and a half old today! WoW! Well she's 18 months going on terrible 2's because lately the tantrums have been severe. She won't nap at daycare and is uber crab when she gets home. Today was awful for about the first hour after we got home.. then she finally calmed down and we had a decent night but then bed time. Oh bed time is usually wonderful. She gets 2 books, some milk, a little rocking and I lay her down and she goes to sleep on her own.. but the past two nights she's fussed at bed time. Tonight was worse and I think it's because she was just so over tired. Last night though she was up from 10-1am screaming if one of us wasn't in the room. Yay. I do not want to go through another phase like this, I get so little sleep as it is and she was doing so well with her 10/11 hours of sleep at night. Boo. Hopefully this will end soon.. maybe a new tooth will pop out and we'll be back to normal... Maybe. Anyway on to happier stuff. Abi says "wah-wah" for water, up, off, me-me (still not sure what this means) "mo" or "me" for more along with the sign, cheesh, "of" for love, eye, um, and of course mama and dada. She also says Jack, "ack" and Niya, which are two of her friends at daycare. There's more but these are the ones she says the most. I love that she's developing her own little personality more and more. She's so defiant and likes to do the opposite of what we tell her to do.. unless it's something like putting her clothes in her hamper, she loves to do that. But every time I say "lets wash your hands" she immediately sticks her fingers in her mouth! She knows that her hands have something on them I don't want in her mouth which is why we need to wash them, so she does it anyway the little stinker! She's been climbing all over everything and while I love that she can exercise her new freedoms I'm worried about tumbles and injuries. But what mother of a toddler isn't? lol

Homework

Just want to say that cramming homework, studying for a test, a major project and mommy/wife/me time into a single weekend was the worst idea ever. Who needs me time anyway? That homework? Well, it can wait until just before class... right? Hmm... studying for a test and working on a major project due Monday... well... I've got about half of it done... time for a snack! Happy weekend everyone!!

Life

Let me just say... I am really bad at updating these days. I miss you all, and am trying to play catch up when I can. But it's getting harder because I am just swamped with my clinical rotation and school this semester. Plus I don't see Abi nearly enough, so I've been spending every free second she's awake and I'm home with her. I don't even know what I wrote last time, but just to catch this up to speed:

Abi is 17 months old. She is walking and starting to talk better.. her favorite word is "up" and for some reason she's been saying "me me" but I don't think she's referring to herself. Ma ma and da da are still regular words and she can say ba (ball) and ni-ni (night night) pretty well. Abi is just the cutest, sweetest, most amazing little girl. She is climbing onto the couches and chairs, not to mention her toys. I was dreading this phase. But so far she's only fallen and hurt herself from the floor and not up too high so we've been blessed. She has 12 teeth, all 8 up front (tho one is not fully in yet) and 2 top and 2 bottom molars. It is so weird to see my little girl with all those teeth! I miss my little gummy grin sometimes! We've been getting kisses, and they're mostly closed mouthed, lol. Just recently, maybe the past week or so, my husband has been getting bed time kisses and he is absolutely thrilled! It's so sweet to watch them together, especially now that they're spending more time together without me (because I'm in clinic an hour and a half away 3 days a week.. ugh!) Abi won't nap at daycare, but naps very well at home. She's still going to bed between 7 and 7:30, unless it was a no nap day, then it can be as early as 6:30. I love that she loves her sleep and she sleeps until between 6 and 7 am... if I'm lucky on my days off she'll sleep in until 7:30 which is such a nice treat.

Abi likes to point to things and sort of ask "what's this?" She's so inquisitive and attentive. I love that she watches what I do and can imitate me. Although I have to be very careful what I do and say now! She's eating all sorts of things now, but we still have to be careful what we give her because of the food allergies. She hasn't had strawberries or peanut butter yet, though I have rubbed a strawberry down the back of her arm. Just to test for a reaction. There wasn't anything that I could see. We give her Plum Organics fruit pouches for some snacks and I've found that she tolerates them well even if they have lemon juice in them..... however, her back will break out a little. So I know we still have to stay away from citrus.

That's all for now, hopefully I can catch up on my reading and will be able to write again soon!

Link up!

So I was sitting here trying to catch up on my blog reading while little miss is napping and I came across a link up hosted by Ali at Chasing Moonlight and Roses. Since I hardly ever post anything on here anymore and when I do it's about Abi, I decided I would like to try to participate. For now there will only be my answers (mostly since I am posting on the day of the deadline!) but I will try to add hubby's later. Here goes!

How did you two meet?

Hubby and I met on Yahoo! personals. Yup, not super exciting but I like where we ended up! ;)

What were your first thoughts when you met your other half?

"Oh wow, he's got a great sense of humor! I love a guy who can make me laugh!" -he said he wanted to learn to knit. I thought he was joking, but he really does! lol

When did you know you were going to marry your significant other?
I knew from about the third or fourth month of dating that I wanted to be with him for the long haul. We were having the best time together and had already talked about all of the major things that tend to break people up when they discuss them... money, politics, marriage, kids... nothing seemed to scare him so I knew he was just as serious about me. 


What is the one thing you will always disagree on?
(Or likewise, what is something you will always agree on?  Whichever way you prefer to answer!)

Religion. Hubby doesn't believe in organized religion and I'm a catholic. It's hard for sure, but at least he's not always rubbing it in my face like some people might. I appreciated that. 

What has your other half recently done that made you love them even more?

He has been wonderful at helping around the house. He's been cooking dinner and cleaning a lot and I am so grateful for all that help! Not only that, he hasn't complained! It's so nice to have that help and even though I know he's been working hard, he acknowledges that I've been working hard too. 

Anyone else?

Does anyone elses kid throw tantrums? I want my happy baby back... I know it's from lack of sleep at daycare (at least partially) but they can only get her down for one hour (when she really needs almost 3 hours of nap a day) and I just feel like I'm missing out on all my little girl's happiness because she'll have a "great day" at daycare then come home to me a screaming, fit throwing ball of tears. I hate it (not her, the situation) and I'm still trying to decide if it's worth all this trouble for me to continue going to school. Ugh, I wish I had found this profession years ago.......

so it's been a while

I am here, and all is well but I have been so busy that I just haven't felt up to writing much lately. I'm sorry and I will try to get back into the swing of things soon! For now, here is an Abi update!

She is 15 months old, 21.5lbs and 33 1/4 inches tall. Into 18 month onsies but too skinny for 18 month pants/shorts. Abi wears a size 2 shoe still, but her feet are long and skinny (like the rest of her) so she's growing out of those but will not fit into 3's. Daycare has wrecked her nap schedule again, but she really seems to be enjoying playing at daycare so that's good. She has 7 teeth that we know of, four top front, two bottom front and one molar poking through on the top left. That was the WORST teething experience ever! She was so fussy and tylenol wouldn't touch her pain, she wouldn't sleep for longer than 40 minutes and it was just awful for about a week. I wish all those darn teeth would just come out at once so we could be done with this. Hmm... what else... oh! Abi is walking about 80-90% of the time now! She is doing so well, but she has really weak ankles so we had to have supports made for her to try to get her to keep proper alignment and train her ankles better. I'm not sure they're going to do the trick tho. But we're still trying them hoping to keep from having to buy 900$ braces someday. Abi is babbling a lot more lately, we still hear a lot of mama and dada's.. some baba's and so forth. I have heard her say "dog" more like da with a super soft g. We were at my aunts for a party and someone had brought a huge golden retriever. Abi kept pointing at the dog and saying "a da! a da!" with those soft g's Then at daycare they have a ball pit and the other day Abi pointed and said "ba" so I kept saying ball to her and eventually I heard something more like ball, but she's not quite there yet. She knows where her head, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, belly arms, legs, feet and toes are and can point to them if you ask. She will point out my body parts if I ask too, like my arm or eye or knee. She's so smart! But lately, oh the temper tantrums!!! I can't stand it, my sweet little girl reduced to a screaming, crying lump on the floor. She will literally throw herself face down and just cry, simply because I will  not give her something or had to take something away (that one I kind of understand) I know she doesn't get it yet, that I'm just trying to keep her safe but it still drives me crazy! I have a feeling the terrible 2's are going to be a year for the record books with tantrums. Then again maybe she'll surprise me. I just want my easygoing baby back. I do love to watch her explore and today she climbed up onto the couch for the first time (using a box) and was so tickled with herself. She's so funny and has the greatest facial expressions.. oh and her laugh is just out of this world cute! Especially when it's that full on giggle... or even when it's a sympathy laugh that she's mocking me with, lol. 

I hope you're all doing well, I'm trying to play catch up on everyone's blogs to see how you are doing. Have a great 4th!!