Long overdue, and therefore long

Well I keep starting update posts and then don't have time to finish them, so I decided this morning to write one before I get started for the day. Sounds like a plan, right? I think I might need some breakfast before I start though, hold on ... :)

Okay, so things are going pretty good lately in the grand scheme of things. We closed on the house a couple weeks ago, and we've been painting ever since. My room is now light and dark taupe stripes (thanks to Shea and Debbie!), the kitchen, foyer and main wall of the living room is "Island Palm" green (sort of a dark gray/green that matches my countertops) and the other walls in the living room and dining room are a khaki color (Almond Toast, to be exact). The library/den is a dark red and Spencer's room is white, brown and blue stripes on the top and brown on the bottom. I still need chair rail in his room to separate the top and bottom, but April and Geoff are coming over on Saturday to help with that since they have a nail gun and a miter saw (woohoo for power tools!). The only places we haven't yet painted is the hallway and the bathrooms, and I figured I'll get to that after we officially move in, because we aren't putting any furniture there so we should be able to paint later. The only problem with that philosophy is that the second bathroom has that 1990s Celestial sun/moon border wallpaper and that's coming down! :) So painting will likely happen sooner rather than later.

We've been over the house every night this week. It's kind if awkward hanging out at our house, watching tv (Christen got a new Samsung to go over the fireplace) and eating dinner (my kitchen stuff is in the garage so I've been running loads of dishes in the dishwasher and last night I actually cooked) and then going back to the in-laws' house to sleep. I can't wait until Saturday when the rest of our stuff will be moved in and we can get to actually living at the new place. Then I can just go over to his parents' house to feed the animals while Ann and Don are in Alaska and I can sleep in my own bed at my own house. That's going to be so nice.

In Spencer news, he went to the doctor a couple weeks ago and it turns out that his lingering cold turned into a double ear infection. So he's now finishing up his prescription for Amoxicillin (which he loves, he sucks the syringe like a bottle trying to get every drop out) and they also gave me eye drops for his narrow and slightly infected tear duct and now his eyes are a lot better. He started eating rice cereal last week and now he's onto apples w/ rice cereal but we need to get a high chair because he hates not being at the table with us when we eat so we spend a lot of time eating with one hand while he sits on our laps. So at least with a high chair he can sit with us and play with his toys while we eat ... hopefully. He's almost sleeping through the night again, which is nice. When we get settled in we'll be able to put him on a better schedule so that he eats at the same time every night and goes to bed at the same time. I've started waking him up in the morning to get him ready instead of transferring him to his car seat in his sleep and it's so nice to see his smiling face before work. He still doesn't turn over, but he's trying. He gets tummy time almost every night for about 1/2 hour or 45 minutes and he usually enjoys it now, especially if he can see the tv from where he is, which is unfortunately one of his favorite things. He lays on his back and tries to get his feet in his mouth and he laughs so hard he gives himself hiccups (like father like son). He's getting to be so fun! Last night I was laying on the floor and he was sitting on my chest and he would slide himself forward so he was over my face and he evidently thought it was hilarious to be taller than me because he wouldn't stop laughing! But then he spit up on my cheek and got the hiccups so we decided he could be taller than daddy for a few minutes :)

But now that I've made this post unbearably long and you've probably even stopped reading before getting to the cute stuff about Spencer, I'm going to go. But I'll try to start posting more so that they aren't so crazy long, k? K k ... :) And an aside to my lovelies that might be reading this that are going through hard times, thinking about you and love you! Things have got to start looking up soon! I won't be one of those obnoxious people that says that everything happens for a reason, I'll just say that you're strong and I know you'll make things work and you'll make your own path.