Because I was planning on moving everything over here, and then never did. And then I hooked up with twenty70 and now I have a great domain with a great host over at http://charminglychandler.com
So go over there if you end up over here. sorry about that y’all!
Sophia is quite a touchy baby. She loves to hold our hand, touch our face, or rub our arm all the time. Lately she wants to have her hand held just to go to sleep. She even rubs her own face when there’s no one else around (like in her crib). It’s so adorable. Her need for physical touch is so obvious these days. And we’re more than happy to give her what she wants.
Who wouldn’t want to hold this hand?
I know you all miss your strictly Sophia updates. It’s been difficult around here, that’s the bottom line.
Sophia is teething. At first I wasn’t sure. But it became increasingly more clear. I can’t see any teeth. The moment anything comes anywhere near her face she wants to gnaw on it, and gnaw on it hard! I let her use my knuckle when all else fails, and I’m now just waiting for the day when there’s something solid poking me instead of the gummy mouth that goes to town now. Sophia doesn’t make looking for the buds of teeth easy, as I said she’d much rather chew on my finger than let it move her lip to investigate. So I wait. She’s a little more needy these days, which I’m ok with. I missed her wanting to be held during her naps, so it’s a nice change of pace. It does mean that I don’t get to write updates as often. It also means that I don’t have much time for things like cleaning and showering. Thankfully Cody has been doing what he can to help out.
Now on to the much dreaded schedule talk. I was on the boat of baby does what baby wants when baby wants to do it. But after realizing how miserable she was on the weekends when her surroundings were different and when we were on the go I decided that we needed to have some sort of schedule in place. And we should do our bed to follow it even when we were out of the house. I am still majorly taking her lead. But I’m keeping better track of her general time line, and I’m going to be making sure we follow it on the weekends and any other time we are out and about. I know that there is a whole camp of parents that strongly disagree with a schedule. But let me be clear, I am not keeping her from eating when she needs to eat, actually on the weekends she sleeps more in the car and ends up skipping a bottle and it ruins everything come the evening. So more than anything this is to insure that come Saturdays and Sundays that she’s not sleeping TOO much and that she’s not missing bottles because of sleep. Seems easy, but it is usually against all advice to ever wake a sleeping baby. I’m sure there will be some adaptions to this over the upcoming weeks and months. Especially with moving and how that will likely take it’s toll on her schedule and her mood.
Sophia’s started two new things this week. Well one new thing, and she’s just getting better at the other. Her new thing is waving her paci in the air. She used to accidentally brush it out of her mouth, back when her hand coordination was minimal. But now she purposely takes it out. The downside: She can’t figure out how to put it back in! So we spend quite a bit of time trying to keep her hands busy when it’s wind down time. She knows she’s the life of the party, and she knows the tricks that make her tired. She doesn’t want to fall for any of it! Her next thing is rolling ALL OVER THE PLACE. Yesterday she rolled all over the living room, seriously just rolling and rolling until she was 8 ft away from where she started. It was one of the few things that made her happy during her crankiness yesterday so I didn’t dare pick her up and bring her back to her starting position. With that she’s really trying to figure out this whole knees thing. I am realizing that our time of having a stationary baby are quickly coming to an end, and that as soon as we move into the new house we should start on the baby proofing. Even through fully crawling may be a little bit out, I don’t think it’ll be long until she gets on her knees and inches her way to where she wants to be.
I haven’t been weighing Sophia or doing her weekly updates. I’ve been slacking. But with the house hunting, the paperwork that went along with that, the teething, and the time Cody has had off….we’ve just been super busy. I will attempt to resume those next week, but if I don’t get to it you can be sure it’s because I was busy playing/entertaining wee Sophia. And I think that’s a darn good reason to miss it! 
This picture isn’t very good quality, but you can see she’s SO HAPPY. Her grin in this picture makes my heart want to explode into a billion pieces. When she spends most of her day cranky lately, it’s so great to see her so happy! And just so you know what you’re looking at. Her starting point is where the brown couch pillow is. She actually ended up even farther than this picture shows..but she just kept rolling into the pinguin moving him across the room with her.
*I just looked posted and realize you can’t really see her grin all that well on here. So you’re going to have to trust me, she was a very happy baby!
*we’re back to the old way for a week because I’m too tired to mess with a collage.
The four day weekend is coming to a close, it’s been a busy four days. Cleaning, packing, running to the mortgage company, running to the Realtor, watching some TV, and hanging out in general. WHEW.
The update to the house goes like this: We are closer than we were on Thursday. We had the inspection at the new house on Friday. It went REALLY well. We also met the current owners and really like them. It helped us feel more comfortable with the house and they told us a lot of things about the house that we probably wouldn’t have known. While it may not be common to meet the owners before closing, I’m really glad that we got the chance to!
As I said the inspection went really well, nothing major with the house. The inspector himself was really great. And now that he’s inspected the house if we need anything ever when it comes to the house we can call him and he’ll come out and look at something or advice us on what to do free of charge. Which may be something all inspectors do, we aren’t really sure.
All the paperwork is where it needs to be, and now we’re just pricing insurance. Which is a little stressful, but we have a couple weeks, and we’re sure we’ll find something that works between now and then.
I did take lots of new pictures of the house, and slowly but surely they are getting added to the website I set up just for our house projects (to keep from cluttering this site with that sort of stuff). It’s a slow process because I am going through each room to show you what it currently looks like and what we have in mind for the rooms. I am also trying to not post any of their personal pictures and stuff, since this is a public blog and it’s not their public blog. So far I’ve only really gone over what will be the guest room. If you look over there you’re going to see after the most recent post it’s sort of a mess. I was setting up the tabs along the top of the page and I had to make posts to go with them. So just ignore all of that!
Besides insurance we’re just waiting for the appraisal to be done and packing up a little bit of stuff as we go along. I will do my best to keep everyone updated as we get closer. I am not officially giving out the address until we’ve closed, but after we’ve closed and we’re all moved in I will be sure to share that information with everyone (probably not here!).
You may remember that a few weeks ago I tried out banana’s. I didn’t think she was a fan. She just wasn’t getting it. Well I think that I need to actually puree the banana instead of just mushing it up. I bought her a thing of banana baby food (I’m not on the all or nothing train of baby food making, jarred food isn’t the devil….I just prefer she eat homemade food). Anyhow, so I bought her a thing to see if it was the consistency that was a problem.
She LOVES banana’s. She eats them faster than any other foods, and she has her mouth open wanting more and more and more and more. She screeches when I walk away after she’s done with it, because she knows that means she’s done and there are no more.
This week we also introduced oatmeal. I could tell she wasn’t a big fan of the rice cereal. I picked up some oatmeal just to give it a try….and I think we may never use rice cereal again. She really enjoys it, and I can’t really blame her. It smells like it has to taste better!
This week we’ve also tried carrots…what.a.mess. I decided not to homemake carrots even though there’s information out there saying that as long as you don’t reuse the water that you steamed it in, you will be ok. I got a message from a friend this week saying her pedi told her something completely different. I thought it over, did some more reading…and decided….eh why take the chance (as small as it may be). We can’t be sure if she liked the carrots. She’s only had it once, and it takes her two days to decide if she even likes something. So I’m sure in a few days we will know for sure!
*With out a video. I’ll explain tomorrow.
Wow, I’m late with this. As I said before, weekends are not for blogging. We’re busy people….we Charming Chandlers.
Ok so my new years resolutions are as follows (with a couple additions I didn’t discuss before)
-Make one new recipe a week.
-Do one new thing a week.
-Pick up the pieces of “I just had a baby” and make sure I look presentable most of the time.
There was more, but I can’t remember. No where did I say “Get in shape.” “Lose 10 pounds” or “Visit one of the many wonders of the world.”
So a weekly update.
I made a new dish. And it was delish! I have to credit my friend Amanda for giving me this recipe because it’s so easy a cave man could do it! It was Chicken Chimi’s.
Here’s what you need:
Tortilla Shells
Chicken breast (we used 2.5 large ones)
Large can of Salsa
EVOO
butter
lemon
Preheat the oven to 350*. Then cook the chicken breast in butter and lemon (or EVOO and lemon, but use lemon…and use a lot of it.) After the chicken is cooked through shred the chicken apart and return to the pan, add salsa. There you have the inside of your chimi.
Oil the bottom of your baking dish with EVOO. Now roll the good stuff into the tortilla shells and place into the baking dish. Brush EVOO onto the tops of the chimi’s and put in the oven for 10-15 minutes.
Here’s where you can have fun with your chimi’s. You can put more salsa on top, shredded cheese, cheese dip…whatever you want. We used shredded cheese, but next time I think I’ll use cheese dip.
The changes we made. We made yellow rice and mixed it in with the chicken and salsa. It was really good. Next time we might even add some shredded cheese to the mix before stuffing the chimi’s.
I did something new. We put an offer on a house. Which I’d never done before. We were accepted. Both things I’d never done before. Two things in one week SCORE! (ok just one thing…whatever.
I pulled myself together. i made an effort twice when it would have made more sense for me not to. When it would have been logical to wear PJ’s. Why you ask? Because I get spit up on during the day. Sophia is teething….and so there is drool all over my arms and my shoulders. Even when I wear jeans and a shirt, and I straighten my hair……even when I’m put together. I look a mess because I’m covered in Sophia. But I will keep trying. Because that’s what matters. Even though by the end of a feed, or at the end of playing….I look a mess. At least I’ve tried.
Maybe I just need better looking PJ’s. So that I can look put together with out having to wash all my normal clothes so much!
So there you have it. It’s not really pretty…I guess I should work on that. Maybe next week the update will be more presentable!
It’s the blog about our house. I’m using it a lot in reference on design/DIY/decorating forums and boards and other blogs. For that reason I am keeping our names out of it. So if you comment just please keep that in mind. I don’t want anyone to get offended that I’ve deleted their comments.
This link will be on the side of the blog for future reference.
http://journeyfromhousetohome.blogspot.com/
