Time to Party!

Amidst moving for the second time in 2 months we had the pleasure of celebrating our nephew and nieces first birthdays! It's crazy thinking they are one already! Then again, it crazy thinking Sloane is already 6 months! Here are the birthday boy and girl doing the ever so popular cake smash!

Keegan our Spicy Casey Meatball

Ella Poo Poo

We have also successfully moved down to Illinois. We closed on Wednesday, October 10th.

We partied for Keegan's birthday on the 13th

I went down to Illinois again on the 16th to clean before we got in the house

Moving day was Friday and Saturday the 20th.

October 21st we headed back up to Wisconsin for Ella Poo's birthday.

Long story short, we can't wait to have two weekends here, at our home, cleaning and unpacking. Speaking of unpacking, I will be writing a post about the new house with a picture overload once we are all unpacked. Keep an eye out!

5 Months

Sorry I've been out of the loop for a while. I don't really have any excuse.

Sloane turned 5 Months...oh about 2 weeks ago! Here are her stats...

Weight: 14 lbs

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Blonde with red undertones

Home Turf: Current home turf is Nana and Papa Wendorf's. We've been here for 6 weeks. Last week Wednesday we became homeowners again and closed on the house in Plainfield. By this time next week we will be moved in!

Sleeping Habits: Sloane was sleeping through the night from about 1 month to 4 1/2 months. In the last few weeks we've had some tough nights. She wakes up multiple times and sometimes for no good reason. Lately we've been giving her a 3oz bottle and rocking her back to sleep. That will change once we get to the new house and can start some sleep training without having to worry about keeping Nana and Papa awake at 2am.

Eating Habits: Started rice cereal at 4 months. She could hold her head upright for long periods of time and sat up nicely with support. She also showed interest in what we were eating at the dinner table by grabbing at the spoon. She is no a pro at eating her rice cereal and loves playing with the spoon when she's all done. Next step in the following weeks will be to shift her schedule a bit and try working on a breakfast/lunch/dinner routine before we start real foods. She is currently taking in about 35 oz of formula a day

Chit Chat: Babble is in full swing. Yap, Yap, Yap that's all we hear these days. Her new favorite noise besides her insanely cute giggles is a Maaaaa and Baaaa wet sound. She puts her lips together and basically spits all over the place.

Play Time: Sloane no longer enjoys time on her back and the bald spot on the back of her head thanks her for that one! She has a mini mullet <-- no big deal. Back time is very short lived as she rolls over to her stop right away. She hasn't quite got the hang of getting back onto her back yet, we thought she had mastered that at one month, apparently not. She will also spend some time now sitting upright with the support of a boppy pillow. Her time there is usually pretty limited unless she has her cousin Ella to watch. She finds Lola entertaining as well when we play fetch. Big Smiles.

New and Exciting News: Sloane will have another cousin to play with in February. Another girl for Tony and Jacki to be named Macy. We can't wait for her arrival!

4 Months and Beyond

Pretty little Sloane is fourth months! I'm only a couple weeks behind!

Our big four month old is now "standing" up in her exersaucer.

She's been busy hanging out with her cousin Ella

 They are best butties!

 Someone was a bit cranky, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to dress the little ladies alike and have a photo shoot!

I mean seriously, look at those baby blues!

Lastly, we started Sloane on rice cereal. She seemed to be at the point where she was ready for it and her first week was amazing. Blows our minds how quickly she can pick up on things she has never done before. We are now on our second week and she is showing some favoritism towards the bottle and not loving the cereal as much. But hey, it's only week two.

...Then Life Happened...

It's been quite a few weeks since I've last written a post. It's definitely not for lack of having anything to say. Like the title of this post says...then life happened! I kept telling myself "I'll write tomorrow XYZ when things settle down." Then tomorrow happens and life keeps on coming. So much has changed and happened in the last month and I feel like Chris and I have been working to keep our heads slightly above the water.

Things all kicked off the week before labor day weekend. This was my last week as an Interior Designer at BSI. It was very hard to leave my first big girl job. Maybe no so much the job, but definitely the people. With all the packing and taking care of Sloane it was very hard for me to comprehend I won't be working there anymore. Even today I still feel like I'm just on vacation and come Monday I'll see all my friends again. That's what my co-workers became to me. I worked in a small satellite office, 8 women, lots of sharing and lots of over sharing! I really miss them.

I finished work Thursday, we finished packing the house Friday and we moved out on Saturday. Talk about stress with no time to process.

The move was a super long day, it was a fairly standard move that all in all went really well. The real kicker was the unfinished road construction on our house. Everything went as planned and scheduled and our half of the road was complete in time for us to back the moving truck up over it. It took a slight bit of pedal to the metal to get over the raised portion of the street but Chris handled the 26ft truck like a pro. Our parents helped us out during the day and into the night. At our storage unit my brother came and my lovely friend Gini brought her husband and friend to help us unload. Mucho thanks to them!

So with half our lives packed away in a storage unit, the rest of our lives sprawled all over my parents basement...yes, we are grown adults living my parents basement... we thought we would have a minute to breathe. Nope. That following week Chris had to be back on the road and I had to adjust to being home with Sloane again all day. She handled the change well and continues to do so. The next weekend Chris and I headed down to Illinois again for our fourth trip to look for homes with our realtor. I would say in the four trips we've made down there, we saw nearly 80- 100 homes. This last trip alone was 25 homes. In those 25 homes was this little gem....

We saw, loved it, made an offer on it before we left and by the time we got home we had worked out an accepted offer! This is our new home in Plainfield, IL! We didn't think we would find a place so quickly, but on the plus side we haven't had time to get comfortable and really unpack too much here at my parents. We will close on Oct 10th, but are unsure yet of exactly when we are going to actually move!

So just when life was suppose to calm down for awhile, it keeps going on... and on... and on!

Let Me Introduce You...Again!

I sent this out to my work a month ago when I returned. I never made it down to the Milwaukee office to show off our little peanut, so this was the next best thing. I wanted to get it on the blog so Sloane could see how ridiculous Mom and Dad were when she was born. Also, how darn funny her expressions and personality can be sometimes~!

 

 

Hi! My name Sloane, I have strawberry blonde hair, 22 1/4" tall, blue eyes, and not that a lady should ever feel the need to share but I'm 3 months old and weigh 9 1/2 pounds

I enjoy lounging poolside…

 

 Indulging in a good book…

 

I love dogs, especially mine…

I enjoy deep and in depth conversation, I'm a very good listener…

 

 I'm very fit and active as I love to spend time out at the golf course with Mom and Dad…

 According to Dad, I'm not allowed to date until 30…I'll give him a few years…He'll soften up, I've got him around my little finger!

Keeping & Making Memories

Our home is beginning to look less like a home as we pack up all our belongings. We look around the house and even though it's all packed it still seems to familiar, likely because it looked just like this three short years ago when we moved in. It's all really starting to sink in as we're going to our last doctor's appointments, bringing Lola to her last day of doggy daycare and Sloane to daycare for the last week, me off to work for the last week. We are desperately trying to get in as much time with our neighbors and friends as we can before we have to leave them. We've got a long road of moving ahead of us and mostly because we have no road in front of our house!

They are currently in the middle of re-paving our road. Concrete is suppose to be down today and cured by Friday so Saturday morning we will be able to pull the moving truck up into the driveway. Fingers crossed they stay on schedule. The construction company even said they would put in a gravel ramp into our driveway for us. If things don't stay on schedule, we could be walking our boxes a very long way away and that will make for the most miserable move!

On the fun side, Chris and I spent the weekend finishing packing and purging the basement. In the process I found lots of fun gems like my mother's baby shower invite, my birth announcement and even my ultrasound pictures. Very cool. My parents also seemed to have kept every single award I ever received....and I mean EVERY award.... case in point...

Thanks Mom and Dad!

I also found this picture of what I believe is our first dog Zita as a little puppy. I could be wrong though and this could be Tess. But I think the pictures we have of Tess are her sleeping inside of a baseball helmet. Way too cute!

Sloane's Baptism

Our little lady joined God's Family this past weekend. All of the family including Great Grandma Jackson and Great Grandma Jan made the trip to Appleton to be with Sloane. Although she screamed her head off from the minute the ceremony started through the whole thing, and then all through pictures as well, it turned out to be a wonderful day. We had a luncheon back at the house (our last party in this house, tear). Once Sloane was in front of the cake it was nothing but smiles, go figure!

Deacon Jeff with Sloane after the ceremony

 Her Godparents, Auntie J and Uncle Tony

Sloane's Headband made from my wedding dress material

Her Dress made from my wedding dress and Nana's wedding veil

Bracelet Nana made for her big day