Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 08, 2011
Nairi- 1 week old.
This is her so far... content and sleepy! Unless she is hungry or being changed and then she lets you know about it. Thursday, April 07, 2011
Can you say Crazy Week?
So...Friday we added Nairi to our family.
Buyers for our house lifted the home inspection contingency.
Tomorrow we sign the final Purchase & Sale on our new house!
You probably can't see the house behind that lovely landscaping, but we will remove that shrubbery. Of course, we will take pictures of the progress.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Nothing like spring in NH
Yeah its April 6th and the kids are still wearing winter jackets and hats. Its warming up- EVER so slowely! Decorating xmas cookies in april
Yeah I know its April. Mike got this gingerbread cookie decorating kit on 90% clearance and it was a good afternoon activity for the kids. ( don't worry no one ate anything but the candy of course) Mike is doing a great job keeping everyone rested and fed, on top of the laundry, playing with the kids, dishes etc etc. Nairi- 5 days old
after her first trip outside.. she wasn't very impressed until I put her in the baby carrier and zipped her in my jacket so she couldn't feel the wind at all. 
Not liking this so much 
Israel right before he threw that book he is holding at Nairi and hit her in the face. 
Israel saying cheese ( I was taking Keira's pic and he wanted his pic taken too) 
Keira loves holding Nairi 
Monday, April 04, 2011
Pictures
Here is Israel holding Nairi Anne. He's not quite sure what to think even now. Kind of ambivalent to her. When she nurses, he comes over and says "Mi-Mi" because he doesn't want to share momma's milk. Although when she was crying during her diaper change, he came over and tried to give her a pretzel. So he still has empathy. 
This is during the day of course. At night is a whole opposite story. 
This is the hair style she woke up with. Kind of crazy how much hair she has. Just as much as our other children. 
Israel likes to carry around the oven mitts for the play kitchen and say "Hot Hot Hot". It always amazes me what kids notice. He knows that we put on oven mitts when we take things out of the oven that are hot.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Saturday, April 02, 2011
baby girl
My longest labor yet.. 11 hours of contractions and lots and lots of pushing. Baby girl was 7 lbs 10 oz 19 inches long. Born at 10:08 4/1/2011 in our living room ( planned home birth). One day before my due date and 2 days later than her brother and sister. She is nursing like a champ and slept great last night. I woke her up to nurse every 2-3 hours. Keira seems to like her and Israel not so much! No name yet but we are working on it! :o)
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Whats going on here
So baby wise... 39 weeks and 5 days pregnant. Both K and Israel were born by now. I heard the third birth can be the wild card..... where things go differently so we will see. I had an appointment with my midwife today. I thought maybe baby was sunny side up since I had some labor that started and stopped a few days ago but she appears to be in good position just off to the corner of my uterus and not right in front. She is also not very engaged but midwife said that's normal for thirdish babies and she will engage in labor I guess. I won't get into my laundry list of complaints about why I want this baby to come but lets just say we are all WAITING!!!!!!! :o) House wise... the home inspection on this house is scheduled for tomorrow at 9 am. Since we are supposed to get a big snow storm tonight the inspector actually just showed up and asked if he could do the outside . We are praying all goes well. We are still looking for a house for us. There isn't much out there currently and the winter weather doesn't exactly get people in the mood to list their houses. So we keep looking.... Mike is keeping a close eye on the housing market and gets emailed the new listings daily so hopefully we will find something soon.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Keira's funny outfit and a few random ones
That tutu K is wearing is one that memere made for her doll. I told Keira to get dressed and thats what she put on! She didn't think there was anything wrong with it....
Friday, March 25, 2011
After over 365 days
of dealing with showings and showings and frustration and headaches and waiting waiting waiting we can officially say we have sold our house!!!!!!!!!! Well for the most part. As long as everything goes okay with the inspection ( which it should since Mikes knows every sq inch of this house inside and out) we moving on to greener pastures.. or should I say larger pastures?
We had a renter secured and were ready to sign the lease with them when a couple that had looked at our house months ago ( when it was on the market) made a random low ball offer on the house. We negotiated a bit and the deal was done. We are losing money of course being that housing prices are the lowest they have been in the past 9 years but say la vie I guess.
I can't even describe how excited I am to double ( and then some) our sq footage!!!!!!!!!
After spending the last almost 4 years home full time with the kids and in about 646 sq feet I can honestly say that space will feel heavenly. It has felt so cramped in our house lately. We have 1000 sq feet but since the second floor is 90% sloped ceilings ( b/c our house is a cape) where you can not stand up straight its not truly 1000 sq feet of space.
And so the house hunt continues. Mike and I made 4 offers on houses in the past few weeks under the impression that we were renting our current house but none of those deals went through so we continue to look and negotiate and hopefully we will find what we are looking for.
2000-2600 sq feet, 2 car garage, newer colonial style house, large family room and dining room ( or eat in kitchen), fireplace, enough backyard for our massive swing set we have yet to put up, and walkable subdivision/neighborhood, and within 20 min of K's preschool and private Catholic school we hope to send her too. And of course Mike's requirements, natural gas heat ( no oil!), central ac ( this one is important for both of us), public water and sewer, and within 20ish min to his work.
Ill miss some things about this house for sure. We have lots of happy memories here. Israel was born here in the kitchen... :o), and this house is super easy to clean and cheap to heat. Ill miss being less than 5 min from the grocery store, doc office, post office, pharmacy, Target, Wal mart, Lowes, the park, church etc etc! But at the same time I'm excited to see our next house and to move on. We plan on staying in the city but doubtg we will be as close to everything as we are now.
Not sure how the whole packing and moving thing is going to go with preschooler, toddler, and infant but I guess we will figure that out in the process. Moving date is tentatively set for June... either beginning or end of June. Not sure yet at this point.
We had a renter secured and were ready to sign the lease with them when a couple that had looked at our house months ago ( when it was on the market) made a random low ball offer on the house. We negotiated a bit and the deal was done. We are losing money of course being that housing prices are the lowest they have been in the past 9 years but say la vie I guess.
I can't even describe how excited I am to double ( and then some) our sq footage!!!!!!!!!
After spending the last almost 4 years home full time with the kids and in about 646 sq feet I can honestly say that space will feel heavenly. It has felt so cramped in our house lately. We have 1000 sq feet but since the second floor is 90% sloped ceilings ( b/c our house is a cape) where you can not stand up straight its not truly 1000 sq feet of space.
And so the house hunt continues. Mike and I made 4 offers on houses in the past few weeks under the impression that we were renting our current house but none of those deals went through so we continue to look and negotiate and hopefully we will find what we are looking for.
2000-2600 sq feet, 2 car garage, newer colonial style house, large family room and dining room ( or eat in kitchen), fireplace, enough backyard for our massive swing set we have yet to put up, and walkable subdivision/neighborhood, and within 20 min of K's preschool and private Catholic school we hope to send her too. And of course Mike's requirements, natural gas heat ( no oil!), central ac ( this one is important for both of us), public water and sewer, and within 20ish min to his work.
Ill miss some things about this house for sure. We have lots of happy memories here. Israel was born here in the kitchen... :o), and this house is super easy to clean and cheap to heat. Ill miss being less than 5 min from the grocery store, doc office, post office, pharmacy, Target, Wal mart, Lowes, the park, church etc etc! But at the same time I'm excited to see our next house and to move on. We plan on staying in the city but doubtg we will be as close to everything as we are now.
Not sure how the whole packing and moving thing is going to go with preschooler, toddler, and infant but I guess we will figure that out in the process. Moving date is tentatively set for June... either beginning or end of June. Not sure yet at this point.
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Bounce U
The kids had their first birthday party invite to a bouncy house party. They had a GREAT time. Israel is fearless and I think its safe to say that Keira is over her fear of bouncy houses as well--as long as daddy is nearby. Both LOVED going down the gigantic slide- with daddy of course.
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