the Madness that was March

Well in the month of march, things have just seemed so busy. Mad Mad Madness I tell you.

Michael and I have been really feeling in our heart that it was time to move into a new place. We love our home now but its a little far from "town" and it doesn't have a stove. I've really been wanting to take on cooking again. It's been weiging on my heart, especially with Nixon growing and needing real meals, I've been craving a kitchen of my own. So for that last couple months, I've been looking at places in Corvallis, almost daily and becoming very discouraged. I didn't want to move to anywhere with less square footage and our place was pretty big. Two bedrooms was a must. I wanted nice cabinetry and preferred 2 bathrooms, in a good part of town. And it all had to be in our price range In my search, I found craigslist fraud up the wazoo, most places had less square footage, or the indsides just wouldn't work for a toddler. But we finally found a complex, 1 min outside of town, bigger than our place now, on the lake, and (wait for it...) there's two bathrooms. I'm so excited. So last month, i was going crazy filling out applications to places, and this month is going to be crazy with moving.

Nixon is doing so much. He had his dr.s appointment and was told he had "above average vocabulary." This was such a blessing, because I've secretly been insecure about Nixon's timing of things. I knew a lot of people who had babies that called around 7 months, but Nixon started crawling at the end of 9 months. I remember the day he started crawling, i was so excited, and we went to Michael's work celebrating, only for a woman to say "oh he's 9 months, is he walking, My friends baby who is 9 months is working on walking." It totally crushed my high. Then when it came to walking, I knew a lot of people who's babies walked at 1 year. Nixon started walking at about 13 or 14 months. Everyone said that he was right on schedule, but i couldn't help but feel like he was "slow." So for the doctor to say his vocabulary was above average was such an answer to prayer. It doesn't make me feel like he's at all advanced, but finally right on schedule. I think if he said Nixon was average, I would have felt like "yeah but he was late on the other stuff, so he's still kind of slow." but since he's a little ahead, i feel like it made up for the crawling and walking and he's just perfectly average!

He's doing so much. Cracking his own jokes. He blows kisses, gives hugs, scrunches his hand to wave, he says bu bye. He says "heh oh" which is hello. It really is just so fun. He's almost completely wiened off of a bottle. He only uses it before bed time but he's finally taken to sippy cups. And he can eat anything. I'm sorry this is a boring post, i just had to write it to document our family :)