Sippy Cup and More

Chance is learning what the camera is for or

at least that he should ham it up in front of the camera. He is learning that when I pull out the camera he should look at it and sometimes it seems that he is trying to act funny for the camera. He is not still of the camera because he does not understand that but he does clap and smile and do funny things for the camera. Most of them are not very good pictures since he is moving so much, oh well.

He is learning to drink from his sippy cup pretty well now. He drinks juice but so far only White Grape juice he does not like apple juice even though he likes apple sauce. He also is not terribly fond of water but I am going to try to get him to drink more water in the future.

The last picture with his hands on his head is a new thing he has been doing just the last couple weeks. At first I thought he might have an ear infection because pulling at his ears would be a sign of that but as you can see form the picture he does not look like he is in any pain. He doesn't seem to do it for any reason other than for fun and yesterday he took my hands and put them on the sides of his face and laughed. He thinks it is funny. As long as he thinks it is funny he can wonder around all day like that if he wants to.

Bath after Jello

These are pictures from an after Jello bath. You can see the Jello remains still on his chest. He still really likes taking baths. He now crawls around in the bath tub after his toys. He has started pulling up on the sides which we have been trying to teach him not to do. This is a slow learning process. He is learning that his little toys fill up with water and squish out when you squeeze them. He thinks it is so funny when I squish them and then he tries to sqeeze it himself but he doesn't quite have it down yet.

This last picture is of Chance trying to climb out of the tub. I take this as a sign that he is ready to get out of the tub. So we start draining the tub and get him out.

Playdate

We went on a playdate this morning to Barnes and Noble where I used to work. Every Tuesday at 10:00am they have a storytime just for the littler kids in mind. So we went with our meetup group today. It's also fun for me because I get to see all my old friends. They read a story and then had some coloring pages. Chance didn't color he tried to empty all the crayons out of the bucket and then eat them but we had a good time anyway. He crawled around and I talked to Carly, a friend of mine. We also got a new book - we get a new book almost every week - Curious George's A,B,C's. We haven't read it yet but I think he will like it. We watch Curious George sometimes though it doesn't hold his attention very long these days. He's got too many more important things to do.

On another note: We noticed Rosco had a swollen place on his neck last week and so I set up a vet visit for today. The vet makes house calls so when he came over he told us that it is either a little infection and will go away with antibiotics or it is lymphoma and won't go away at all. We are all hoping for the former, he is on antibiotics and steriods right now and we have another vet visit next week to see if it is helping we should know by then if he is going to be ok or not. He is seven years old which is getting up in years for an English Bulldog. He is such a good dog.

J-E-L-L-O

Who doesn't love Jello? Some people might not like it but don't include Chance in that bunch. We gave him Some Jello the other night after dinner and he loved it. At first he was not sure if it was food. Should he eat it, it was squishy and jiggly. But after we showed him that yes you do eat it he started having a grand ole time. Playing and eating and playing some more. He got very very messing and even though it wasn't bath night he got a bath anyway. His hands and face were red from jello and he even got some on his leg. He had a good time though and we plan to give him some more jello again soon. The great thing about Jello is that it is sugar free so he can eat it for dessert a lot and he doesn't get overloaded on sugar. Yeah!

The Yard

I am so excited that we are going to have a yard. A place to

play and have fun. To plants things and get dirty. To B-B-Q and relax. It will be so great. We also have parking which is going to be really nice. We do not have to worry about what time of day we come home or what time of the year it is

(Mardi Gras). We do not have to worry about

parking close to the house when we have groceries or something else to carry

inside. The yard looks like it has not been mowed in a little while but there are a few great plants

already in the yard and I can not wait to clean it up. It will

be so cute. The yard is pretty big for

a house in this area. The house is on a corner. The tenent's side is on the street and our side is surrounded by the yard and has the parking. There is also a sidewalk next to the house that you can see in the first picture which I would love to take out and maybe have stepping stones instead. The bush on the left in the first picture is a Rose bush and there is another smaller one closer to the road that is hard to see in the pictures. The first picture is looking out the back door toward the road and you can see the sidewalk and part of the parking also if you walk straight down the walkway there is a people gate

in the fence so we do not have to open the big car gate everytime we walk out of the fence. In the second picture looking back toward the house you can see the palm tree on the right side. All the doors have metal screen doors which are very nice because Chance can push on them and we do not have worry about him putting a hole in them. Also this winter it is going to be nice to open the doors and not worry about bugs getting in or Chance getting out and have the nice breeze moving through the house. The third picture is of Chance standing up at the screen back door. The fourth picture is just another picture of the yard from the parking area. You can see all the bushes (can you tell I am excited about the bushes and trees?). Also the privacy fence goes all the way around. The fifth picture is of the chili pepper vine. The last picture is the walkway at the back of the house again a little over grown but a cool little place anyway. At the end of the walkway there is another gate that is hard to

see in the picture. Also the tenent side has a backdoor that opens onto this walkway down on the end next to the gate.

The House

We went for the inspection today at the new house which turned out very good.

There is no structural problems and only a few little things they recommended that we do and nothing that should in any way keep us from buying the house. I took a few pictures, the ones here and then some more on Flickr which you can get to by using the link "all our pictures" at the Right side of this screen. This first picture is looking from the livingroom out into the Parlor and then out the front door. The second picture

is

the same set of rooms looking into the house

from the front door into the livingroom and down the hallway the bathroom is located on the right in the hallway and the room at the end of the hall is the 1st bedroom which we think will be Chance's bedroom. The next picture is standing in the 1st bedroom looking back toward the front door. I never got a really good picture of the 1st

bedroom, now that I am looking at them I didn't

get a good one of the 2nd bedroom either but the fourth picture is of the 2nd bedroom the one we think will be our bedroom and the doorway is

going into the Kitchen. Then there is the Kitchen itself, there is a lot more of the Kitchen but again with me and the bad picture taking. The last picture is yet another bad picture taken in the Kitchen showing the backdoor to the yard on the left and the door into bedroom number 2 on the right with the fridge. All the appliances stay which is awesome. I took a lot of the yard too but I have to go to sleep now and will post another entry for the yard pictures tomorrow.

Chance had tons of fun crawling around everywhere. He didn't like the furnace grate very much but we were planning on buying a nice carpet to cover it up anyway since it is just for show now and is not hooked up. We will have central air and heat.

Playdate

We went another playdate at the Louisiana Children's Museum. Chance was really moving around this time. Last time he just hung out in the baby area and had fun this time he wanted to get out of the baby area and crawl all around the toddler area. He crawled up in this play car they have. I helped him by setting him in the driver's seat and after he got there he loved playing with the stering wheel. There are a few ride on toys there he couldn't quite understand sitting on them yet but he pulled them all over just rolling them around and scooting on his butt. He got along very well with the other children again but this time he wanted to play with every toy so I had to tell him that he couldn't take everyone's toys. He was very good with it though and was easily distracted with other toys. This second picture is with a little girl that is 10 months old who we have seen a couple times, Eva.

In the Cage

Yesterday I was washing some dishes while Chance played around nearby. Rosco was out of is cage and I could hear Chance playing with Rosco's cage door opening and closing it like he does with all the doors in the house these days. When I looked over he wasn't just playing with the door, he was sitting in the cage. It was so funny. He fits right in there with no problem at all. Before Chance was born we both wondered how long it takes for a baby to get as smart as a dog. We have decided that it takes about 9 months. He knows his name and what 'No' means. He tests things and lets you know when he wants to do something. So now that he is just as smart as Rosco, everything from here on out is just gravy. haha.

New House...Almost

We are in the process of buying a house. It took us a while to find one but finally we did. It is about 5 blocks out of the French Quarter in the Marigny which is where we used to live before we moved to this apartment. It is in a really good area. There is a coffee shop on our block and we are about a block from a beautiful old cathedral. Three blocks from a little grocery store and restaurant as well as a tapas bar and another coffee shop and a laudrymat but that doesn't matter any more because we have our own washer and drier now. Or at least we will. It is a duplex which means we can use it as an investment and the rent will help pay our rent and Scott will have more flexability in his job so he is not traveling any more. It is a corner lot with parking and a yard that has a couple rose bushes and a chili pepper vine. We are getting the inspection on Thursday and hopefully will close by the end of the month. This one little picture doesn't do it justice at all. It has been renovated in the last couple years with new roof and new cabinets in the kitchen. It has hard wood floors everywhere except tile in the bathroom and kitchen. It is a shotgun style with the Kitchen off in an L shape. I am excited, I hope everything works out with the inspection and this is the one.


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Teeth for Real.

We have Teeth!!

Chance has been a little extra cranky the last couple of days but nothing seemed wrong so we just thought he was having a couple of off days. Turns out he was getting teeth! He chews on things a lot and gets my fingers in his mouth a lot too. Yesterday he chewed on my finger and he did not have teeth but today he chewed on my finger and it was sharp. I was so supprised. I never suspected that he was getting teeth. We pulled open his mouth and there they were. Not one but Two! Both bottom front teeth. After we got home we got this picture, if you make it bigger you can actually see both little teeth. They are only about half way out right now but I am sure they will come out more soon. They are so cute. He was a really good sport with me
taking his picture and this second picture is just one of him while I was trying to get a really good one of him.