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SO EXCITED!!!

Remember how I had some good news in November about being on a waiting list?  Well, that waiting list was for some fabulous housing I desperately want.  (Three different places, each place had 3 or 4 different options that would work well for us.)

I've called them a few times to check our statuses.  (Statuses because when I said we were on the waiting list, what I really meant was we were on 6 waiting lists.)  I last called them last week, they told me that we were within the top 10 for 3 of the waiting lists (the more expensive ones, which we were willing to take just to move) and between 30 and 40 on the other, cheaper waiting lists.  They told us to expect a call at any time for the more expensive and it would probably be at least 6 to 12 months before we heard about the cheaper ones.

We received the call we've been waiting for today and couldn't be happier about it...seriously.  It was a call for the cheaper rent and happened to be the cheapest possible apartment available.  She informed me that we were the 34th family they've called, but that people have not been able to take it for when it's available.  We, on the other hand, are super available, so it defaults to us.  We are SO SO happy.  There is one tiny chance we won't be able to move there.  We have to fit in the right bracket to qualify.  (I'm 99.9% positive we do, since we did not lie about anything when we filled out our application and nothing has really changed either.)  So...we should be moving to our new place in March.  It is well-taken care of, a great set-up, equipped with everything we could dream of (pretty much) and is bigger than where we currently live (all on one floor this time).  

In short, we are feeling very blessed and appreciate the chance we've had to live where we do now.  It helps us remember how good we've had it in the past and helps us appreciate our future place.

If you would like to check out what will probably be our new apartment, look here http://www.woodbridgelincoln.com/apartment-2-bedroom-1-bath-lower-level/.

Green Onion

I read on pinterest that if you stick a bunch of green onions in a glass of water they will keep growing and keep growing and keep growing.  So I tried it and it did in fact keep growing and growing.  The above picture is about 1 week after I used all of the onions (all except the bottom white part).  I was impressed with their growing and impressed that this worked in the middle of winter when I usually didn't open the blinds, so sunlight was seriously limited.  Awesome!  And then a little while later, it all grew mold and I threw it away.  Not so awesome.  I think I will try again sometime.  Maybe one more time in just water and maybe another time planting the onion I buy in dirt.  

Note: This would have worked better if I had bought several bunches of onions and filled several cups completely full.  Then I would have been able to use it as much as I like.

Thanks again to pinterest where I get entirely too many ideas of what I want to do.

2011 Projects

A year ago this time was kind of a crazy time in my life.  I wasn't used to having any time to do what I wanted...and the time I had previously used to do whatever I wanted was usually acquired at the rationalization that I couldn't JUST do homework and that a few incomplete assignments would never make me fail.  (I just want to add that this is one rationalization I still agree with in hind sight, maybe even more so than at the time.)

This year I'm trying to keep lists of the things I do (things I make, read, other things if I think of it).  I wouldn't have ever considered having enough time to have much to put on these lists, but I had plenty of time this last year and got a few things done.  I looked very quickly through all of our pictures to see what I could show you.  In no particular order:

Vidalia's blessing dress.  Started 2010, finished 2011.

First pair of shoes ever.  (I kind of got obsessed with making these.)

Diaper (so much cheaper to make than buy...)

Food doesn't usually count, but these cookies were cool and didn't make it onto the Halloween post for some reason.

Tree Skirt

Felt Board (many figures to come this year)

These boots (made up the pattern and everything).

Garden.  (We endorse for effort in this family.)

V's 4th of July outfit.  Quite literally from head to toe.

The shirt I'm wearing.  I didn't have a pattern and it turned out...okay.  Cute, but uncomfortable.  Notice how it looks kind of funny.  I tried to fix the uncomfortable and totally cut the wrong part of the shirt and then tried to cover it up.

An FHE chart.

These three costumes.

Vidalia's 12-month Stats and such

I know I've been posting things like crazy, but I suspect there will soon be a dry spell (could be wrong).  So here is just one more for now.

Vidalia is now 1, which means she got to go to the doctor again for more shots (Yay?).  The doctor praised her for getting through 12 months without coming in for anything, but wellness appointments.  She of course, had no clue and desperately tried to get the doctor's stethoscope and necklace.  She was really friendly to the doctor.  I was surprised (since she was cold to the nurse about 2 minutes before).  She got her shots and cried for only a few seconds.  I think this little girl has a really high pain tolerance; not such a tolerance for being held still though.

Stats  

Height: 29.75 inches (67%)

Weight: 20 lbs. 13 oz. (42%)

Head: 18.25 inches (82%)

Yep, she's still growing.  She's such an amazing baby.  We've had huge improvements in her sleeping schedule.  She now has a regular bedtime and somewhat regular nap time.  She takes one nap a day.  I think she would stay up all day if I didn't tell her to nap and put her in her crib though and that would be no fun for anyone because she gets REALLY grumpy with no nap.  I don't know when is normal to go to no naps, but I know it's not 1.  She feeds herself like crazy and is glad to eat almost anything.  She is now trying to walk (still maxing at 9 steps, but has done 9 quite a few times).  She takes the most steps when we aren't trying to encourage her.  When we try to get her to walk, she gets so excited and hyper that she bounces around and tries to run and pretty much trips before her foot even moves. It's cute of her to be so excited to play with us (and she always is).  She says hi all the time.  We decided it's not her first word since it doesn't exactly sound like hi, but everyone does seem to gather what she means.  We went to recovery last night.  She kept popping her head up over the side of the table and screaming hi to everyone (not as distracting as it sounds, she was actually quite good).  Plus she's a baby and everyone likes her, so she's allowed to be annoying.  She does so many many things and I can't think of them now.  Y'all will just have to see for yourself sometime, but she's a cutie (and has many more teeth than the pictures in the last post; hat was about 6 months ago, afterall).

Because I'm so in love with this face

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