New House, New Semester, New Life

So its been a while since I wanted to do my big blog post about moving into the house with pictures when the house was all put together.  Yeah that's not going to happen till the semester is over.  So we have been in the house for about a month now and I love it especially now the temperature has been going down.  The house is all wired for air-conditioning but needs the compressor or condenser whatever and we are too cheap to buy it this year so the first couple of weeks in the house were kind of miserable.  Anyway we were finally able to close after the deadline kept getting pushed and pushed, and we went and signed our lives away.  We were really lucky since Provo offers a no interest 10,000 dollar downpayment assistance for lower incomes and as we just got out of college we qualified.  However, most people who do get this have to do an FHA loan and we were conventional, so that was all super complicated and we were the first who were able to ever get this with a conventional loan.  All my effort paid off and I was so happy.  Anyway we closed and were hoping to get to move in and everyday we wouldn't get the keys, and then we found out there was a land dispute to deal with...frustrating.  Then we finally got that sorted out and were able to move out the day before we had to be out of our apartment.

Liam is now over 7 months old which is hard to believe.  He is still a super chunky baby, probably around 23 pounds now and still sticking in his 90th percentile.  He is really tall too, so he wears 18 month old clothes.  Yeah he is huge and hard to lug around.  He has a fun personality and loves to smile when it is all about him.  He is a major flirt and a big ham (pretty much sums him up).  He loves eating real food and despises baby food.  I have already had to give him his first haircut, but I'm not that sentimental about hair.  He loves stroller rides, and music.  He is really funny in this regard and already shows his preferences.  The Tangled soundtrack is probably his favorite, and if I play "When will my life begin" he stops crying instantly.  Banging on the piano is another favorite pastime.  He has been teething for forever, but I think he has at least 3 teeth all trying to break through.  Sleeping, oh how I miss sleeping, he did pretty good when we first moved in but with the teeth situation we are back to waking up at least twice every night.  He does nap fairly well though.  I now take him to a babysitter for a couple of hours while I go to class and he really likes it.  He loves playing with the babysitters twin girls so that has worked out really well while I go to class.

The last semester has started and things are going really well.  Its not to heavy of a load, and Jeff watches Liam after he gets home so I can do homework.  That is the really nice thing with having Jeff out of school, when he comes home he has no homework so he can watch Liam and help me study.  I have loved BYU and its a little sad that it will be over, but not all that sad.  Jeff's job is going great, so things are overall going really well.  I think that's all that has been going on, but who knows.  I was going to put pics of the house here, but you can just see the album on facebook

Lately

The biggest thing that has happened lately...well, we are under contract for a HOUSE!  So thrilled about it.  Of all the homes we looked at it was my second favorite, and there were things in it that I liked better than my top pick, so I guess it was kind of a toss up between the two.  Anyway we are all set to close by August 10th.  The home inspection is done and now we are just waiting on the appraisal.  I love the house and I am really excited to be living somewhere with more than one bedroom, a real kitchen, and a yard.  I am also glad that the whole searching for a home thing is done.  After you look at so many houses it starts to get old.  

Liam has also been doing great.  At his 4 month appointment he was just over 18 pounds so at 5 months who knows how much he weighs, but he is sticking right with his 95 percentile growth curve.  He also has two teeth now.  He had is first  at 4 months and his second came through a couple of weeks later.  His sleeping hasn't been the greatest.  He was doing great only waking up once at night but now we have taken a few steps back.  He is definitely too big for the bassinet that he sleeps in so hopefully he will do better when he actually gets a crib when we move.  Yes!

We also took Liam on his first plane ride over the 4th of July up to Washington.  He did really well on the way there and slept most of the way.  Then he got to experience his longest car ride of six hours as we drove to the Oregon coast, thankfully he slept for four hours of the car ride both ways.  We spent the week in a lovely beach-house with Jeff's family.  It was lots of fun, and we were even crazy enough to get in the water.  

Liam after his first time swimming

  Not quite a family photo

 Waiting in the airport for his first plane ride

 On the beach in Oregon

 Fourth of July

Chubbs

That has pretty much been our life.  I am so excited to move and get everything all in our own space!

4 months

Hard to believe that my baby is now a chubby (well extremely chubby) four month old.  It seems like he gets bigger every day.  While down in Toquerville we weighed him and found that he weighs around 17.5 pounds.  Yeah he has some major arm rolls.  He has rolled over a few times from his back to his stomach, but he mostly just likes to roll around in a circle.  He giggles, and also enjoys hearing himself scream in a very high pitched voice.  Here is a few pics.

 For father's day I made Jeff and Liam matching tie t-shirt/wunzie.  Jeff's turned out kind of crooked as I was just guessing on how big to make the tie.  I actually had a pattern for Liam's.

Jeff had his birthday on Father's day and I will be having my birthday on Saturday.  So that has been fun even though we spent Jeff's birthday traveling back to Provo from Toquerville.  We plan to spend my birthday looking for more houses, and hopefully take Liam swimming.  House hunting is going...and going...and going.  We have put in offers on about four homes I think so hopefully something will happen soon.  This one bedroom apartment seems to be shrinking.  Sometimes cleaning just annoys me because I don't have anywhere to put anything.  It will be nice to get Liam in an actual room in an actual crib (as his weight now exceeds the recommended weight on his bassinet).  Then we wont have to roll him in and out of the kitchen and we could open doors without worrying about waking him, and I wouldn't have to juggle a stroller up and down apartment stairs.  Hmmm guess I really want to get out of here.  Other than that not much, it is interesting not working or going to school, but I will continue to adjust.