Milestones

I like to look back and see when B hit her milestones and sometimes I have a hard time remembering so I'm going to put them here to have forever!

She was able to hold her head up at just a couple days old, although it was a bit wobbly at first.
Rolled from belly to back - 2 weeks old
Smiled - 5 weeks old
Laughed - 3 months
Rolled from back to belly - 4 months
Said "dada" - around 5 months
Sat up with support - 5 months
Sat up unsupported - 5 1/2 months
Danced - 6 months
Crawled - 6 1/2 months
Pulled up to a stand - 7 months
Cruised furniture - 7 months
Said "mama" - 7 or 8 months but it wasn't until about 11 months that she said it often
Took first steps - 9 months
Walked well - 9 1/2 months
Ran - around 11 months, now shes a pro
Walk backwards - 10 months
Clapped - she started early but then stopped and didn't do it again until 10 months
Waving - same as clapping
First words - I'm not sure when she said her first word...isn't that horrible?? I think it was "ball" around 10 months
Pointed - 9 months
Played peek-a-boo - around 10 months, maybe earlier but I'm not sure.

Words she says now - ball, juice, this, that, no, yes, mommy, daddy, puppy, kitty cat, push, nana, sit..... pretty sure she says "shit" too and at first I thought she was just saying sit but it definitely sounds like shit these days.. yeah, we're working on that.

She can sign 'More' and does it for everything! I am attempting to teach her 'milk' and 'eat' but instead of doing those signs she just does 'more'. If I ask her "do you want some milk?" she'll say yes and then sign more lol. She also points at whatever she wants and signs 'more'.

I went to the new house yesterday in the daylight and woah does it need work! The downstairs is fine, just needs some cleaning and paint. But the upstairs looks just terrible. There are a few things we can do right away to fix it up like paint and some of the walls have holes that need to be filled. The floors are terrible. I don't know how someone could do that to hardwood floors! They're scratched up like no other and there was carpet in one room that had to be ripped out and the floors under it aren't the best. So carpet needs to be put in again very very soon. Right now my landlady is more concerned with ripping out a stair case that goes to the back of the house, which is a big priority for us too. That freaks me out, it is sealed off but I still don't like the idea of it. We were thinking of getting laminate flooring for B's and our room upstairs, because those are the only rooms we'll be using until the next baby comes along. And laminate flooring is fairly cheap but I don't think I could lay it myself, I'd definitely need Patricks help. I'm hoping we can do this in December since Pat gets a vacation check and quite a few days off, I don't want those floors to stay the way they are for long! They are hideous.

I did pick out some paint colors and I'm excited! We are going to do the kitchen and dining room in a dark/hunter green and I'm going to attempt to make some new cushions for our chairs. Then the living room is going to be a darker tan color, its called oatmeal. It matches out brown couches perfectly, then the extra room (that will be B's play room for now) is going to be a dark red. I was thinking about doing my sewing room/office in a pretty light yellow since I'll have all white furniture in there I thought it'd look good. Each room has the french double doors and someone decided to paint the ones to the office a really bright purple, so that'll be changed! The rooms upstairs and all going to be white other then the bathroom, it'll be light blue. Such a pretty color! I saw it in a little paint booklet being used in a bathroom that's similar to ours and it looks good. It needs to floors too but that's not a concern for me right now, they're salvageable. It does need a new mirror though, the one in there is sitting on top of the sink and its all nasty. I found an oval shape medicine cabinet at lowes for $108 that I love love love! So hopefully we can get it.