Our move is getting closer and we're closing in less than two weeks. It's scary. We haven't sold our house yet which is really depressing. We're going to lose so much money on this transaction that it frightens us a little. However, we feel really strongly that we couldn't stay in this house any longer. I love this house, but I can't say I don't regret buying it at all. I mean, I was really unhappy renting where we were renting before we bought this house. We needed to move. This house is really lovely and served us well. It just was the peak of the market and we put so much work into it. I don't know what I'm trying to say. I guess I wish I knew how iffy this neighborhood actually was. I knew it was the "city" but there are lots of streets nearby that are much, much quieter than our street. It's those two neighbors that ruin it, and I guess there was no way to know when we bought the house. If it weren't for those neighbors, we wouldn't be moving at all. So, basically we can blame those neighbors for losing us so much money. Oy. I have to talk about something else. This is sounding so "woe is me" and I don't like it. We do okay and it's "only" money. That's what I keep telling myself.
So, on to Henry, I guess.
He is turning into such a little boy. He is very busy all the time. He is so mobile now -- he can do everything but stand and walk by himself. But he pulls himself up, cruises around, sits down, crawls somewhere else and then pulls himself up. He's started moving around with his toys to bring them different places. He really won't let me feed him that much as he must do everything himself. He's got quite the independent and stubborn streak. Because he was such an easy baby, this takes us aback a little. He is, however, still a charmer and smiles all the time. He laughs easily and will pretty much always smile when I smile and laugh when I laugh.
I think, though I'm not sure, that he's started to say "Mama." But it's so difficult to tell. I was changing his diaper the other day and he looked right in my eyes and said, "Mama" as clear as day. But he does a lot of babbling, so I'm not sure if he was labeling me or if he just made that sound.
July is going to be a busy month. Really, I just hope, hope, hope that our house sells and we can forget all this bull$h1t and put this whole old house thing behind us. We need to move on.
Oh yeah. And one more thing.
Henry and I went to a party at T's office the other day. We saw one of T's co-workers who immediately cooed all over Henry. He has seen Henry before and has expressed his amazement at how much Henry looks like T. (Everyone tells us how much Henry looks like T. I understand where it comes from.) Anyway in his enthusiasm about how much they look alike this man said something to the extent of, "I mean, he looks as if he could actually be your son!"
To which I replied, "He is T's son."
But I don't think he got it.
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Ugh, I find appearance comments so awkward in general. People tell me how much A looks like me ALL THE TIME. Even if her genetics were what the commenter was actually expecting, what am I supposed to say? Thanks? And it doesn't help that in my mind the accurate response to the comment is 'well, sure, she has my coloring and MAYBE my eyes but if you looked a little closer at the individual features, you'd see that nothing else comes from me. They're from someone I've never met.'
Congrats on 600 posts. I know what you mean about blogging.
There's so much you don't know about a house until you've lived there, so don't second guess yourself about your soon to be ex-house.
We have an easy baby too and we also find the stubborn fits he pitches over trying to do things himself a little surprising. It's definitely an adjustment!
Oh dude.... foot in mouth and they didn't even notice. What on earth are they thinking making comments about how much he looks like T, anyways? I mean, what do you SAY to that?
But he is wicked adorable! I love your photos. :)
There are a lot of people who just don't get the whole adoption thing and never will.
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