The Nibbana Family

And this is my first blog.  I’m five years old and I’m the best girl in the whole wide world.  Here is a picture of me when I had my face painted:

I am 10 and a half months old. Yesterday I got my fourth tooth, to join the third one that popped out last Thursday. Also, I just learned to climb the stairs in our house.  I climbed all the way up on my own earlier this week! It makes Mom and Dad nervous, but it is so fun.

So Chuck and I drove around with our agent looking at houses in Columbia today.  We looked at 7.  They all needed a bit of updating, but only one was a true “fixer-upper”.  Wouldn’t you know the one we like is the fixer-upper!  It is truly the ‘ugly duckling“. It is on a nice lot – .66 acres, and on a corner.  It has a in-ground pool that we don’t know what we would do with.  It was built in 1962 in a contemporary style, meaning it has lots of windows and looks a bit funky.  It was bought as a fixer upper several years ago and started, but never finished.  It is 1700+ square feet and has 3 bedrooms/3 baths.  It also has a full basement the same size as the house.  It has a 2 car garage with a tiny apartment at the back, but it looks like it has some rot.  The house has some visible mold, but the structure looks sound.  I think it needs a bit of work to make it livable. Why is it that Chuck and I can’t seem to be happy with something that is move-in ready?

So Chuck wants me to type something in to test out the blog and I am sitting here thinking – what should I type? Hmmmm… so I’ll just start with 34 weeks pregnant is a tough place to be. You are big enough to feel like you are carrying around a house in you belly (in a way I am) but you still have 6 weeks until the baby is born unless it is early, and Ari was late so I am thinking it may be even longer than 6 weeks. At the same time some people think your belly is cute and that is always fun! Oh, and everything hurts at different times during the day. Plus, now I am testing my blood sugar 4x per day and watching my carb intake so that I don’t have too much sugar in my blood since my body does not seem to be making enough insulin to deal with a lot of sugar at time.

Ok, enough complaining, because I really am excited to meet this kid (and Chuck and Ari share my excitement)!