I'm Freezing, I Need Cheered Up!

Avery (pictured eating a hotdog in a bun for the first time!) told me this this morning, "I'm freezing, I need cheered up." And before I could say anything she followed that up with, "I could have some colored gold fish, that would cheer me up!!" Now, this was breakfast time so colored goldfish aren't usually on the menu, but they happened to still be sitting on the counter from last night's trip to Target-in plain eyesight of one smart little 2-year-old! I cannot believe how big my princess is getting. I mean, seriously, she's starting to already form conclusions like that to make mommy give her something she wants??! I can't believe my first born is more than half way to being a three year old! Which reminds me...
Mr. Spencer will be turning 1 exactly two weeks from today! I really can't believe this one. He is doing new things really everyday it seems. This week he officially became bottle-free:) I just washed up the bottles one last time this morning to pack away-that felt pretty good, washing bottles was the hugest pain. Spencer even started on whole milk once a day yesterday so we can begin to ween him off formula! His two top teeth are just about to pop through and will finally give him 4 teeth sometime very soon. Spencer has also pretty much cut out his morning nap so now he and Avery take one long afternoon nap at the same time! He's been doing great with table food and has eventually come around to start trying more things...here he is with some pasta-he didn't each much of it, but enjoyed making a mess!

Aside from the kids, we took our house off the market this week to let our real estate agent "go." It was a tough decision for us because we liked her as a person, but she wasn't doing anything-and I mean doing absolutely nothing-to get our house sold. So, we start the process all over again with another agent. We're meeting with a new one sometime this week and will hopefully have this thing back on the market very soon (though, at this point, Artie and I are just contemplating putting it on Craigslist and selling it ourselves). This house is becoming such a thorn in my side and it is so frustrating that we started this process nearly 6 months ago (though the decision to move has been years in the making) and have yet to get anywhere. Plus, those who know me know that I really dislike yard work, and since spring has come now we actually have to do stuff outside (mow, weed, etc.) to make the house look decent and it's a lot harder for me to do it for a house I don't even know how long I will be in. Spring brought projects we may not have had to do had the house sold over the winter (like we purposefully wanted!). But at least the outside of our house looks fresh with a new coat of paint on all of our trim work (courtesy of my dad) and our shutters finally got repaired in the front of the house (thanks again dad for your help on that too) and the hole in our roof also was fixed (my stepdad handled that one). So whoever is lucky enough to buy this house is getting one spruced up piece of property-aside from the landscaping:)!

Speaking of my dad, he had his skin grafting surgery on his eye this week. They took a huge piece of his eyelid from his right eye to repair and reconstruct his damaged lower eyelid on his left eye. He chose to be awake for the entire thing, though they did have to sedate him for about 5 mins to actually numb his eyes. He has a patch over the fixed eye and so we're anxiously awaiting to see if the graft worked-prayers that it takes this first time! He's doing okay, except for looking like he was in one heck of an alley fight!

The end of the week is approaching and it's Mother's Day weekend. We have some tentative plans that I hope work out! Happy (early) Mother's Day to all of you great mama's out there:)!