Here is a quick clip of Miles doing his Spiderman puzzle. It's only the tail end of him putting it together but the end is his favorite part. For any true super hero fans, I accidentally told Miles the wrong names of the characters and now when daddy tells him who the right ones are, he gets very confused. Unless you tell him the names I originally gave him months ago something is just "not right"!
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
More House Pics
Here are the rest of the pics, from our Realtors website, of our new house. I am in the process of painting many of the rooms, so it will look a little bit different in the coming weeks. Anyone who has seen the house we are currently renting will be able to tell, it is the exact same house. It is a 4/3/3. Some of the rooms look a little distorted in these pics, but it gives a general idea of what the house is like inside. Eventually we will add a pool after Miles is done with all of his surgeries. I have spent the last couple of days cleaning out the garage, which contained all of the previous owners "trash". The house was mostly empty, but there were a few boxes of junk to go through out there. Today a cleaning service is coming to disinfect everything. So I am heading back over there now to let them in.
Backyard - previous owner had 2 big dogs, we have a lot of work here!
Side yard
Dining room/entry
Kitchen
Master bath
Living room
Master bedroom
Family roomWednesday, July 30, 2008
We Closed!
We finally closed on our new house today, so I feel better about posting pics now:
On a side note Miles finally did his Spiderman puzzle all by himself tonight. Chris looked at me when he started working on it and said, "Tonight is the night.....he's gonna do it by himself." And he did. Yeah, Miles!! He was so excited and we celebrated right along with him.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Fun and Games
Miles loves puzzles. He started out at about 9 or 10 months old with the board puzzles. He loved trying to match the shapes to their appropriate spots. Now, he has moved onto interlocking puzzles. We bought him several of the ones labeled for "3 years and up", so they aren't the really difficult ones for adults, but they are hard enough to occupy several hours of his time. He still needs some help and is starting to figure out edges and corners, but from time to time he will surprise you and have a whole section all done by himself.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Miles Update
I know I haven't been the best at posting lately. We have a lot going on. So here is a quick update on what we've been up to:
Miles is sick AGAIN!! He had a 103 temp on Sunday and a 104 on Monday prompting me to take him in to the doctor, which prompted his fever to go away precisely at the moment I paid the $20 co-pay. It's just a virus. Apparently the charge for that diagnosis is exactly $20 as of late.
Outside of being sick, Miles started his swim lessons last weekend. He didn't take to the class all that well, which is typical for him doing anything structured for the first time, but the pool time afterward was a huge hit. If it wasn't for the cold, we were planning a play date there this week.
He is doing really well with potty training. We can't complain. He goes in the potty almost all the time except at night. He can take off his own pull-up now to go and most of the time you don't know he's gone until he comes out yelling "I did it!!" He has also been asking if he can go when we are out running errands. We are very happy with all his progress, even though we figure being fully trained, meaning at night as well, is still a while away. Most days he gets to wear big boy underwear, but I have had him a pull-up again since he got sick......just in case. He's such a big boy now.
Miles has improved greatly with his speech. His articulation is still poor, or at least not where we'd want it to be, but he uses complete sentences most of the time and is trying really hard. His speech has been cut down to 2 times a week for the summer, but will pick up again in the fall.
As far as his ears, he gets his CAT scan in a month to see if he is a candidate in either ear for atresia repair. I can't believe he is 2.5 already and that his surgeries could start in less than a year. It seems like just yesterday we were finding out about our options and wishing they weren't so far away. Now we can't manage to slow time down.
Lastly, we finally committed to buying a house here. We close in less than 10 days. I won't post any pictures though, just until everything is finally. We are moving right across the street to a house just like ours except with a 3 car garage instead of 2 and without a pool. But inside it is exactly the same. So at least we know where everything goes already. We got an amazing deal that we couldn't pass up, so it looks like we're staying in Florida for awhile. Thank goodness for air-conditioning and indoor climate control.
Miles is sick AGAIN!! He had a 103 temp on Sunday and a 104 on Monday prompting me to take him in to the doctor, which prompted his fever to go away precisely at the moment I paid the $20 co-pay. It's just a virus. Apparently the charge for that diagnosis is exactly $20 as of late.
Outside of being sick, Miles started his swim lessons last weekend. He didn't take to the class all that well, which is typical for him doing anything structured for the first time, but the pool time afterward was a huge hit. If it wasn't for the cold, we were planning a play date there this week.
He is doing really well with potty training. We can't complain. He goes in the potty almost all the time except at night. He can take off his own pull-up now to go and most of the time you don't know he's gone until he comes out yelling "I did it!!" He has also been asking if he can go when we are out running errands. We are very happy with all his progress, even though we figure being fully trained, meaning at night as well, is still a while away. Most days he gets to wear big boy underwear, but I have had him a pull-up again since he got sick......just in case. He's such a big boy now.
Miles has improved greatly with his speech. His articulation is still poor, or at least not where we'd want it to be, but he uses complete sentences most of the time and is trying really hard. His speech has been cut down to 2 times a week for the summer, but will pick up again in the fall.
As far as his ears, he gets his CAT scan in a month to see if he is a candidate in either ear for atresia repair. I can't believe he is 2.5 already and that his surgeries could start in less than a year. It seems like just yesterday we were finding out about our options and wishing they weren't so far away. Now we can't manage to slow time down.
Lastly, we finally committed to buying a house here. We close in less than 10 days. I won't post any pictures though, just until everything is finally. We are moving right across the street to a house just like ours except with a 3 car garage instead of 2 and without a pool. But inside it is exactly the same. So at least we know where everything goes already. We got an amazing deal that we couldn't pass up, so it looks like we're staying in Florida for awhile. Thank goodness for air-conditioning and indoor climate control.
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