Doesn't that just sound lovely? We closed on Friday and should record tomorrow (seller dude lives in Vegas). Once we get the call saying it's legally ours, we'll call the surveyor to flag the property line - make sure what we're going to cut down is actually ours to cut. Then we'll get some tools and start chopping away! House-building dreaming officially commenced.
The Moose has added 2 new phrases to her vocabulary: "uh-oh" and "wazzat? or "whozzat?"; with none of which does she use discrimination. She doesn't fully understand "uh oh", so it's used for everything. It took me a couple of days to stop thinking it really meant UH OH! And I am sure almost every parent says these, but... I can't believe how much she knows & does now! Or how happy she is almost all of the time! We just keep telling ourselves "we must be doing something right!" We wonder how long that will last... however long, we're definitely enjoying it while we can :) Tonight she threw away her diaper, put her dirty clothes in the pile, pushed her toy bin back to the living room, put her toys away, grabbed her blankie, laid down to get changed for bed, came and sat on my lap to get her teeth brushed, said good night to dad & kitty, then put her head on my shoulder, thumb & blankie in her mouth when I scooped her up for night night time. Certainly a most excellent way to end this weekend :)
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Firestarter
So... the Moose started her first fire on Saturday. Not just any fire, but a plasma fire! She waited until Yobo was indisposed in the bathroom, pulled the cooler that we keep the kitty's food in from the pantry to in front of where the microwave sits on the counter, climbed up the cooler, put paper trash in the microwave & pushed buttons. When Yobo came out of the bathroom, he heard the "wom wom wom" sound and ran around the corner to find our kid standing on the cooler with a big smile on her face. Luckily, he is so cool under pressure! He flew across the kitchen and dumped out the paper flame into the sink. No damage done. The door to the pantry will now be shut at all times. Crafty little bugger.
We got word last night that the realtor got the signed offer papers back from the seller!!! We officially close on the 19th and will be property owners no later than the 23rd :) Happy Halloween! There are some serious wheels turning in our heads now LOL
We got word last night that the realtor got the signed offer papers back from the seller!!! We officially close on the 19th and will be property owners no later than the 23rd :) Happy Halloween! There are some serious wheels turning in our heads now LOL
Thursday, October 4, 2012
House of Mau5
We're coming to a lot near you! Yesterday, we met with a real estate agent & signed offer papers for a 1.68 acre lot in Meadow Lakes, Wasilla :D If all goes well, we will close on the 19th & officially be land owners on October 23rd (weekend, bank holiday) - holy crap. This is just the property, no house; we plan on building. We plan to start clearing in November, maybe even put in a driveway; saving up all the money we can over the winter; then definitely put in a driveway, a foundation, and start the fence & greenhouse next summer. Hot dog.
Part of the plans include a large greenhouse (larger than the house house? with hammocks and banana trees! Oh! being fanned & shaded under a banana tree while looking at the snow through the windows - yes, please), the house house, a garage kind of thing, and loads of trees. Maybe someday we could even get goats. I want a sheltered walkway to walk between the house, the greenhouse, and the garage. It should be translucent, like rather lengthy windows. That would be cool. And, once it's fenced, we can run out in the woods with the city twist - low on the wild animals, high on the playability.
If you'd have asked me where I'd be in 5 years 5 years ago, this was nowhere near it, but is (mostly) way better. My original plan probably had something to do with working a day job to support my TV-watching-while-eating-cheesy-poofs habit, not having a care in the world; optimistically slacking my life away. I mean, I still do that, but just on a less than daily basis now.
The Moose had her 18-month check-up at the doctor's today. She walked herself into the building, all around the waiting room, down the hall, past the bathrooms, and right passed the patient room. In fact, she kinda refused to walk into the room herself - she knew what that room was all about. She decided to show the doctor exactly how... developed her gross motor skills are by repeatedly climbing into and out of an empty shelf, then up the chair to the windowsill where she crawled (because she knew she'd get in trouble for trying to walk) across it to the other side to get what she wanted. She also crawled onto the doctor's rolly chair (you know the ones without backs or sides, kind of look like an ottoman on an office chair base), pulled up to the computer, and started typing away at the keyboard while occasionally moving the mouse. She's seen us on the computer occasionally, but we both have laptops - I have no idea where tapping the mouse came from, but she knew what was what. Oi vei. And we didn't let her see computers or TVs until just recently. The poor kid also flipped a nut every time someone other than me or Yobo tried to touch her too much. A hand on the shoulder was sort of ok, but trying to hold a stethoscope to her? She just kept shaking her head, saying "uh uh" and wiggling around, pushing the stethoscope away. When the doctor tried to check her ears?! Crying, shaking her head, "uh uh", and trying to wriggle out of dad's arms. Poor, poor baby.
When it was time to talk communication skills, they asked if she knew more than 8 words. I asked "in what language?" The Moose speaks Moose. She has words, a lot of them, but most of them are not English. She can carry an entire conversation, but most of her current English consists of "Mama!", "yum yum", and "hoo hoo". I am not the only "Mama!" Yobo is "Mama!" Monkey, the cat, is "Mama!" when she finds him. Every balloon she sees is "Mama!" All food is "yum yum." When she's REALLY hungry, all food is "yumyumyumyumyumyumyumyum". Monkey, the cat, is "yum yum" when she's looking for him. Her water cups are "yum yum." The blankets are "yum yum." Her toy dog Violet is "yum yum" but Violet can "hoo hoo". Dogs are "hoo hoo"s, Yobo's mom (Grandma) is "hoo hoo" - she has many dogs & is (almost) always with at least one of them. Kids are "hoo hoo"s. Moose are "hoo hoo"s. Airplanes are "hoo hoo"s. Cats other than Monkey are "hoo hoo"s. Birds are "hoo hoo"s. Sensing some reason here? She's also fairly adept at "uh huh" and "uh uh", as well as her versions of "thank you" and "you're welcome." The rest of it is... I can't even explain. There's no imitating it. She is so very sure of it and, somehow, it actually sometimes makes sense :)
Part of the plans include a large greenhouse (larger than the house house? with hammocks and banana trees! Oh! being fanned & shaded under a banana tree while looking at the snow through the windows - yes, please), the house house, a garage kind of thing, and loads of trees. Maybe someday we could even get goats. I want a sheltered walkway to walk between the house, the greenhouse, and the garage. It should be translucent, like rather lengthy windows. That would be cool. And, once it's fenced, we can run out in the woods with the city twist - low on the wild animals, high on the playability.
If you'd have asked me where I'd be in 5 years 5 years ago, this was nowhere near it, but is (mostly) way better. My original plan probably had something to do with working a day job to support my TV-watching-while-eating-cheesy-poofs habit, not having a care in the world; optimistically slacking my life away. I mean, I still do that, but just on a less than daily basis now.
The Moose had her 18-month check-up at the doctor's today. She walked herself into the building, all around the waiting room, down the hall, past the bathrooms, and right passed the patient room. In fact, she kinda refused to walk into the room herself - she knew what that room was all about. She decided to show the doctor exactly how... developed her gross motor skills are by repeatedly climbing into and out of an empty shelf, then up the chair to the windowsill where she crawled (because she knew she'd get in trouble for trying to walk) across it to the other side to get what she wanted. She also crawled onto the doctor's rolly chair (you know the ones without backs or sides, kind of look like an ottoman on an office chair base), pulled up to the computer, and started typing away at the keyboard while occasionally moving the mouse. She's seen us on the computer occasionally, but we both have laptops - I have no idea where tapping the mouse came from, but she knew what was what. Oi vei. And we didn't let her see computers or TVs until just recently. The poor kid also flipped a nut every time someone other than me or Yobo tried to touch her too much. A hand on the shoulder was sort of ok, but trying to hold a stethoscope to her? She just kept shaking her head, saying "uh uh" and wiggling around, pushing the stethoscope away. When the doctor tried to check her ears?! Crying, shaking her head, "uh uh", and trying to wriggle out of dad's arms. Poor, poor baby.
When it was time to talk communication skills, they asked if she knew more than 8 words. I asked "in what language?" The Moose speaks Moose. She has words, a lot of them, but most of them are not English. She can carry an entire conversation, but most of her current English consists of "Mama!", "yum yum", and "hoo hoo". I am not the only "Mama!" Yobo is "Mama!" Monkey, the cat, is "Mama!" when she finds him. Every balloon she sees is "Mama!" All food is "yum yum." When she's REALLY hungry, all food is "yumyumyumyumyumyumyumyum". Monkey, the cat, is "yum yum" when she's looking for him. Her water cups are "yum yum." The blankets are "yum yum." Her toy dog Violet is "yum yum" but Violet can "hoo hoo". Dogs are "hoo hoo"s, Yobo's mom (Grandma) is "hoo hoo" - she has many dogs & is (almost) always with at least one of them. Kids are "hoo hoo"s. Moose are "hoo hoo"s. Airplanes are "hoo hoo"s. Cats other than Monkey are "hoo hoo"s. Birds are "hoo hoo"s. Sensing some reason here? She's also fairly adept at "uh huh" and "uh uh", as well as her versions of "thank you" and "you're welcome." The rest of it is... I can't even explain. There's no imitating it. She is so very sure of it and, somehow, it actually sometimes makes sense :)
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Today is (Possibly) the Biggest Day of My Life #4-ish
If it all works out well, it will soon be bumped to #5 - will have more details later this afternoon! Excited & a little skeered :)
P.S. still sick, still home :( going to class in an hour though, then off to Wasilla to see what's what. I was going to skip class, but I didn't go Monday & I'm afraid of falling too far behind. Thankfully, what I missed seemed to be easy enough to do on my own (I think I kind of love multiplying & dividing exponents - is that weird?), but don't suppose that luck will hold out. Plus, I need to find out when our Chapter 3 test is due - I expect this week for sure! I think I'm finally ready for it - been studying like mad all day yesterday & this morning.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
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You should NEVER let your pets play with wild animals like this, but, at the same time, for some people, it's just kind of how life is :) Respect nature.
You should NEVER let your pets play with wild animals like this, but, at the same time, for some people, it's just kind of how life is :) Respect nature.
It is OFFICIALLY winter.
I feel like poo, Yobo feels like poo, the Moose feels like poo. Everyone's sick. I just woke up because I was hungry; got on Facebook and saw a bunch of posts about SNOW. So, looked out the window, and, sure enough, the ground is littered in the white stuff. Of course we would be sick this weekend - there are SO many things that must be done! I actually like the snow, don't mind it at all; but could sure use being healthy this weekend to ensure crops are changed over & things are put away & tires get changed over. Hopefully we're not too bad tomorrow & can convince me ma to take the Moose & I shopping for snow boots... :D
Friday, September 28, 2012
New (not necessarily exciting) things
OK, well some of these are exciting, though it's not the Wednesday exciting news (it is only Friday, after all)...
I just made my first ever international call! I had to google how to make an international call hahaha thank you Google! Yes, it is only capitalized in the "thank you" as an entity; I'm pretty sure verbs aren't capitalized. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The Moose has been learning all kinds of fun new things; for instance: she can now push a chair to where she wants to go, like the bathroom sink, get into the chair & use it to stand on, allowing her to cause proper mayhem, like turning on both sides of the sink full blast & soaking herself head to toe playing in said sink. She also learned how (I showed her ONCE) to take a pencil and push, push, pull it through one of the 3 holes punched in a spiral notebook - pshaw at all of you who gave me crap about not getting her those all important crappy shape toys, she's got this down. As Yobo said, we can have her weaving rugs in no time!
I got my very own spinning wheel!!!!!!!! It's an Ashford, it's new to ME :) The previous owner said it was an early 80's model (so am I!) that had been recently tuned up. It was pretty amazing how it all happened - new they're like $600. A friend sent me a Craig's list ad for a $200 wheel here in town (this RARELY happens, and when it does, it's usually junk), so I called the lady up and we ended up gabbing for about 10 minutes. After talking with Yobo later that night, it became apparent that this was still, very unfortunately, not affordable. I called the nice lady back and let her know. She called me back the next morning to tell me that she just couldn't sell it to this other lady who wanted because she just didn't sound like the right person; she couldn't explain it, but she had a gut feeling this wheel was MEANT for me. Nice lady offered to take payments for the next 8 months to help make this ALL MINE. Holy Toledo. I couldn't say no! So later that day (last Saturday), I went and picked my new baby up :) When I brought it home, I made sure to have it all set up & let the Moose explore it on her own terms. She had about 10 minutes and then I brought out a chair & showed her how it all worked. Nice lady also gave me a niddy noddy, but I already had a much nicer one, so I gave it to the Moose as a distraction toy (this worked wonderfully). I am in heaven :)
Sadly, however, my choice to get the spinning wheel meant compromising and giving up some other stuff - I did not get to go to the apple pressing last weekend; I will not be at the Flogging Molly concert tonight (little cry); and the Moose & I will not be buying /making the Rainbow Brite & Twink costumes. It's OK though, because I am still convinced I made the right choice :D
Gooseberries are AMAZING! I totally want to grow some now - I can't even believe I've never eaten them before. They were SOOO good. Surely it's just the variety as stories have been told by others of not such exciting flavors, but this one... this one was like an apple, peach, sour apple, cherry, and kiwi all together. It was an explosive burst of wonderful!
Oh! And on Tuesday, I saw my first ever wild ptarmagin (I've only ever seen them in pictures, or cooked in a yummy pot pie). That was pretty cool. They really are rather stupid LOL we almost hit it with the car because it just kept walking in the roadway, looking at us like "well, hello there."
I just made my first ever international call! I had to google how to make an international call hahaha thank you Google! Yes, it is only capitalized in the "thank you" as an entity; I'm pretty sure verbs aren't capitalized. Correct me if I'm wrong.
The Moose has been learning all kinds of fun new things; for instance: she can now push a chair to where she wants to go, like the bathroom sink, get into the chair & use it to stand on, allowing her to cause proper mayhem, like turning on both sides of the sink full blast & soaking herself head to toe playing in said sink. She also learned how (I showed her ONCE) to take a pencil and push, push, pull it through one of the 3 holes punched in a spiral notebook - pshaw at all of you who gave me crap about not getting her those all important crappy shape toys, she's got this down. As Yobo said, we can have her weaving rugs in no time!
I got my very own spinning wheel!!!!!!!! It's an Ashford, it's new to ME :) The previous owner said it was an early 80's model (so am I!) that had been recently tuned up. It was pretty amazing how it all happened - new they're like $600. A friend sent me a Craig's list ad for a $200 wheel here in town (this RARELY happens, and when it does, it's usually junk), so I called the lady up and we ended up gabbing for about 10 minutes. After talking with Yobo later that night, it became apparent that this was still, very unfortunately, not affordable. I called the nice lady back and let her know. She called me back the next morning to tell me that she just couldn't sell it to this other lady who wanted because she just didn't sound like the right person; she couldn't explain it, but she had a gut feeling this wheel was MEANT for me. Nice lady offered to take payments for the next 8 months to help make this ALL MINE. Holy Toledo. I couldn't say no! So later that day (last Saturday), I went and picked my new baby up :) When I brought it home, I made sure to have it all set up & let the Moose explore it on her own terms. She had about 10 minutes and then I brought out a chair & showed her how it all worked. Nice lady also gave me a niddy noddy, but I already had a much nicer one, so I gave it to the Moose as a distraction toy (this worked wonderfully). I am in heaven :)
Sadly, however, my choice to get the spinning wheel meant compromising and giving up some other stuff - I did not get to go to the apple pressing last weekend; I will not be at the Flogging Molly concert tonight (little cry); and the Moose & I will not be buying /making the Rainbow Brite & Twink costumes. It's OK though, because I am still convinced I made the right choice :D
Gooseberries are AMAZING! I totally want to grow some now - I can't even believe I've never eaten them before. They were SOOO good. Surely it's just the variety as stories have been told by others of not such exciting flavors, but this one... this one was like an apple, peach, sour apple, cherry, and kiwi all together. It was an explosive burst of wonderful!
Oh! And on Tuesday, I saw my first ever wild ptarmagin (I've only ever seen them in pictures, or cooked in a yummy pot pie). That was pretty cool. They really are rather stupid LOL we almost hit it with the car because it just kept walking in the roadway, looking at us like "well, hello there."
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