Update on the House

I don't have updated pictures yet but the hardwoods got laid last week and our carpet should be laid this week. So what we have left is our plumber, the appliances and a driveway and a couple of odds and ends that the electrician didn’t finish. I am hoping that can all be done this week. Oh, did I mention that the granite folks drilled 3 holes for our one hole faucet in our master bath even thought the faucet was lying on the counter the whole time. It has been stuff like that the entire time and people wonder why we are almost going on a year.

Bringing in the New Year!!

Well, I was hoping by Jan 1, 2009 to be able to say we spent our first Christmas in our new house, but atlas it was not to be and we are hoping that maybe by the end of the month we will finally be moved in.
Of course, Conley cleaned up over Christmas. She wasn’t as interested in the gifts at first as she was with ripping open the presents. We tried our best to keep her contained but it didn’t do us a lot of good. We all enjoyed watching her anyway. Here are a few photos from the Holidays and some of the house.

Thanksgiving 2008

Stay tuned I am working on a slideshow of pictures documenting the week that Taylor and Conley's spent at Granna and Grampy's.
Also, I would like to take this opportunity to introduce the newest member of the Gibson family, drum roll please..... Bella Gibson. She is a 9 1/2 week old English Bulldog. I know everyone is going to flip out that we got her considering our house situation but we knew what we were getting into.

Playing Catch Up!

I know I am in big trouble with Gigi and Julia B for not keeping this updated. Conley will be 2 years old in about 10 days and I am in total denial. Just last week she started getting out of her bed by herself and I found her lying across the threshold of our door. Here are some recent photos of our trip to the Pumpkin Patch and our recent Halloween Parties. As you can see from these photos, Conley already has an admirer, Aiden. He belongs to our babysitter, Heather so at least we know and approve of his parents!! He loves Superman so I hoping it was just the costume!:)

Miss Personality

My child is so full of herself!! I know that doesn’t surprise most of you. She is still going to Mrs. Heather’s but now Conley is the only girl besides Bella (who is 5 mths) and it seems to have helped her develop new habits. Some of her new things are growling a lot, I have caught her trying to pick her nose in the last week, she is constantly wanting to wrestle with us and when she isn’t giving high fives she is giving “knuckles.” Who needs TV when we have a vivacious 22 month old to entertain us?
She has also become a big helper she loves to help us throw things in the trash without even asking and she is always wanting a wipey to wash her hands, her face and anything else that she thinks that needs to be wiped down. She is mesmerized with our socks. As soon as we are taking clothes out of the dryer she picking out all the socks and trying each of them on. Brandon’s socks look like knee highs, it’s a hoot!
This weekend we took it easy but we did manage to set up a fabulous pool and slide for Conley outside. We had to drag her out when we were ready to go back in! She has been a little more defiant recently but I think we are learning to be more consistent with our expectations and instruction and things seem to be going better. We actually were able to make her take a 3 hr nap with us Monday afternoon. Anyway, this age is more challenging, no doubt but to be able to see her personality develop and her ability to communicate with us ever evolving it makes it all worth it!!