Life as Homeowners and Parents...

When did we become our parents?  When did we get this old?  Are we mature enough to be this responsible?  This seems a little out of sorts.

Brian MOWED GRASS this weekend!!!!  I mean...what?  Wild.  I can't post a picture (even though I took several) because he'd be embarrassed.  Oh well.

We are slowly getting things sorted and put away.  I finally thought to take some pictures, but they're mostly of our junk and not of my favorite part of the house: the outside!  I will probably have an entire blog entry about our deck...so many things planned for that thing! 
Here are a few pictures of what we have...



Our bedroom...so big and so quiet and dark!




Our playroom/guestroom/office...no room for more children.




Our amazingly enormous kitchen!  I have extra cabinet space...unheard of!

 I mostly took paintings we had and hung them on nails left from the previous owner--they probably won't stay where they are. 

Seriously--the kitchen is amazing.  I don't mind cleaning in there because it is so awesome and huge.  I have a little ipod dock in there and I just get to work.  I have all of my serving dishes in the brown cabinet section (under the diaper bag)--and it all fits!!  I have all of our appliances in the cabinets, and I still have a cabinet area empty and a whole drawer left!  I am just so excited.  It is fabulous!

We'll eventually paint the bedroom walls, but I have no idea what color yet so it is waiting.  Also, the guestroom/office/playroom will be less cluttered eventually since we're hoping to put another kid in there at some point...whew.  We'll pretty much have to get rid of our things and make way for only children things.

Camille is doing so well!  She has gained about 2 pounds in a month--she is eating SO MUCH!  She loves solids--all of them.  She even eats the meats without any trouble.  Gross.  Her favorites are green beans, bananas, and sweet potatoes.  She is least interested in peas--must be the texture.  She's had a wide variety of things and we're in stage 2 foods already.  It didn't take her long to want more than 2 oz of solids at a feeding.  She's eating two big jars (8oz total) at two meals a day and then is having 2 oz of formula afterwards.  Impressive young one.  Her thighs are growing and she is as happy as can be!  She had mangos for the first time today: loved 'em.

We are getting a food processor this weekend so we can keep up with her need for food without having to buy 8 million tiny jars of odd combinations of food.  We are also going to look at TV's (B is finally getting a good one) and other house things since it will be Memorial Day weekend--hopefully we can catch a good sale.  Camille will be joining us for our shopping trip--I hope she enjoys it!

I pumped for the last time tonight.  I just quit mid-pump.  I'm so sick of it...I am just done.  I hate pumping.  I wish I was more selfless and could do it all day for Camille, but she is doing fine without bmilk at this point and she got nothing but bmilk for so long that I feel okay about it.  She'll be drinking real milk soon--thank goodness.  I can't wait for that!

Okay--tomorrow...or some time this week: Pictures of the back yard and ideas for it!  I forgot I am still working this week...hm...could be rough.  Better go to bed.