She is getting so close!

P. is getting so close to crawling—like really crawling. It is exciting and dreadful at the same time! E. was trying to teach her yesterday and she was just watching him and then would babble back. I think the real motivator for her—just like the other two kids—is going to be that smelly dog. He walks by and she immediately cranks her head to watch him. Maybe since he is "untouchable." At any rate, he has gotten both E. and S. to crawl (and walk!), so we will let him stick around a bit longer. ;) Enjoy the cute video. Hopefully I will have another one for you next week that shows the real thing!



Mystery solved
Remember how I tried for an entire week to post some videos of the kids. There were fun ones of them blowing bubbles and jumping on the trampoline. And there was this cute one of P. eating her cereal and making a gigantic mess. Well, I figured out why I haven't been able to upload any of them: they are too large. I didn't even pay attention to their size, but just realized that the largest upload size is 100MB. I just took a longer video of P. doing this froggy jump yesterday too (which E. re-enacted as a donkey kick!), but it is 101MB. Bummer. (I still tried to upload it twice hoping that maybe the Google scale reads a little light. It doesn't.) So, now I know and will have to be conscious to keep them under 55 seconds.

Case closed.

The deed has been done. So now what?
We had our home inspection on Thursday. It didn't turn out exactly as I had expected. I either expected everything to be in good shape or for there to be something so badly wrong that we would have to cancel our contract. Well, we landed somewhere right in the middle and Tyler and I are trying to decide which way we are going to fall. There were many things that the inspector couldn't do or see, so a couple of factors are still at play for us—like the home appraisal we should receive soon and a copy of an inspection on the house when it first foreclosed. We don't feel like the inspection gave us the full picture of what we might be getting ourselves into, so I think we both are just waiting. I feel this urgency just nagging at me because we obviously can't wait that long before making a decision on whether to move forward. And I also feel anxious because any way I look at it, I feel like it is a real gamble to buy a "used" house. (Heck, I don't even like used cars!) This is one of the very few times during the home-buying process when I have been thankful that our pace to get to closing has been painstakingly slow.