To catch everyone up, I'll do some updates!
Lydia update: She is almost 1 year old! AHHHHHH! I'm having a hard time with this. I cannot believe how quickly my baby has grown. She walks probably 90% of the time and crawls about 10% of the time. She started walking about a month ago, but has really taken off in the last couple weeks. I'm so proud of her. I am amazed every day with how much she grows and changes and learns. She has no teeth yet. Figures. She just switched to a new daycare center, which she seems to love! She is happy when we drop her off and happy when we pick her up. She doesn't sleep all that great there yet, but this is only the first week she has been there. She has increased her nap time by 15 minutes each day. She has a great first Christmas. She was completely uninterested in gifts, but we tried :)
She has a few word in her vocabulary now. She can say 'hi,' 'buh-bye,' 'mama,' 'dada,' 'papa,' 'uh-oh,' 'woof-woof,' and 'bahhhhh.' That's a new one from today. We worked on what a sheep says ;) I have started planning her first birthday party. I ordered the invites yesterday and I have a friend working on the cake plans! I'm excited for it, but it is sad at the same time.
House update: We have our first house!!! We closed on it at the end of November. We love it! It is nearly completely decorated. I just have the master bathroom left to paint. There are plenty of projects though! DH and BIL are going to build a built-in for the laundry room (my Christmas present from them). The boys tore off the stairs on the deck because they apparently created a water trap. So those will need to be built this sping/summer. We need a new dishwasher, which we will probably buy when we get our stainless appliances for the entire kitchen. We need a fence for the dogs. Yada yada yada. But we love it. A lot. It definitely feels like home.
Me update: I am in my last semester of dental school. Thank goodness!!!!! I am in full-time clinic plus I have two classes I missed when I had Lydia. Boards are coming up next month. This scares me. It is very stressful and very expensive ($1500). I don't have much of a choice but to do well. I have been working out nearly every day at a gym in Edina. I joined at the beginning of December and have since lost nearly 20 lbs. I was sick of not fitting into my pre-pregnancy clothes, so I joined the gym and got personal training with a friend. It has been hard though. Not so much the working out a couple hours a day... I can handle that pretty well. But it means I don't get to see Lydia for more than an hour or so a day. That has been the hardest part. It also means I don't get to see DH much either, and when I do see him, I'm pretty tired. I have to remember that this busy time in my life is temporary and I'm doing things that are going to benefit me and my family.
Alright....that is a general update for now. I'm off to the gym :)
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