As I'm lying here in bed watching House Hunters International, it hit me that we have less than a week left in our house. As excited as I am to start a new adventure in our new house, it really makes me sad thinking about leaving this one. I was so proud of myself when I bought this house all by myself at the age of 25. I looked at it as such a big accomplishment. I have gone from being single to being married to being a mother in this house. It's strange thinking that our next child will never know this house as a home and well I guess Margot won't either. I know it's silly to become so attached to a place, but that's how I am. I'm not big on change. Apparently when I was a little girl my parents sold a green station wagon of ours and I cried and cried because I didn't want them to sell it. See it's been an issue I've had for a long time. After 10.5 years of looking out the back door, out into the pasture and at the cows, it's coming to an end. 1084 you've been a great house to me and to our family, if only you'd been a couple of rooms bigger now, we wouldn't have to move.

May 27-For sale sign went up in our yard
June 3rd-Received an offer on the house
June 5th-finalized offer on the house
June 5th-9th-went out house hunting
June 10th-put an offer on a house and got it.  Rushed around getting paperwork and funds to lender
June 13th-still running around loan paperwork
June 14th-appraisal on our old house and have to host a playgroup/camp with a friend in the morning.
June 15th-inspection on new house
June 17th-Walk through/orientation on new house (it's a new construction so nobody has lived there and they go through everything with us) plus make list of issues they need to fix
June 18th birthday party for a little boy in Margot's playgroup
June 24th-Closing on new house, so that weekend we'll be moving
June 29th-close on old house.
July 2nd-leave for week at the beach with Robbie's family.  I think we're going to need it!

17 weeks

21 weeks

For the past couple of months, Margot has been doing great with taking naps.  She has been putting herself to sleep, and then sleeping for at least an hour and a half and sometimes even three hours!  People, that is unheard of in this household!!  Then two days ago, this came to an ubrupt halt.  Why, you ask?  Oh, because Margot finally realized she could get out of her bed when I wasn't in the room with her.  Up until this point she has stayed on the bed, even though she knew how to get down.  So, what did this new achievement mean for her nap taking?  See for yourself.

After leaving her in her room for over an hour, and knowing the havoc that was being wreaked, I heard knocking on the door, followed by "Mommy, Mommy, Mooooommy".  I went in there to find one whole shelf of books all over the floor, a diaper and then some toys.  Needless to say, she didn't take a nap. 

We headed over to our friends house for a little while, and on the way home the little monster fell asleep.  Being that it was 4:30, I was NOT going to let her sleep long because I wanted her to go to bed at her normal time.  So after about 20 minutes, I started trying to wake her up.  I had been holding her, so I laid her down on the couch, because this has woken her up in the past, but nope, not this time.  So I started talking to her, lifting her arms and legs but still nothing.  Ok, I'll sit her up, that will wake her up for sure.  Um....

NOPE!  Finally I just kept talking to her and poking her and she woke up.  Now to just figure out how to keep her in her bed at naptime so this doesn't happen every day.