Minnesota and FOR SALE

We just returned from a great week in Northern Minnesota with my parents and Auntie Pea. We got to go swimming in the 75 degree lake (nice for swimming but a little warm for amazing fishing), play outside with the ants, leaves, and sand, and just lay around. Ok, so Nora never really 'laid around.' We pretty much laid around and watched Nora enjoy herself.

Nora is officially in the beginning stages of crawling. She is able to get her knees under herself and push up with her arms. She made a couple moves toward forward progress but gets frustrated that she is moving slowly and quickly drops to her stomach so she can fly. She frequently just sits on her knees and rocks her little butt back and forth. Too cute!

She has also started staying the 'ma' sound! Not that she is really saying it to me, but it is amazing to hear her say "MAMAMAMA!"

The not so great part of the week was the sleeping habit that creeped up on us during the last few nights. Nora has decided that waking up at odd hours of the night is an acceptable thing to do. She isn't just waking up and then going right back to sleep. She is waking up for an hour or so at a time and then going back to sleep for a short period of time. She continued that habit last night. She didn't go to sleep until 9:15 because she slept so much in the car on the way home, then woke up at 3:30 and stayed awake until 4:45. She was very restless the whole time she was awake and we're wondering if the next set of teeth are trying to make their way through. The doctor told us the top two teeth are much more painful than the bottom two because they push through more surface area. Great. We finally gave her some Tylenol and a little milk and she kindly slept until 6:15.

Brian and Nora just left on their weekly trek to Brady street in search of coffee and people watching. I'm going back to sleep.

On another note...we have officially put our condo up for sale. We have had two showings and will have an open house tomorrow afternoon. This is the scary part, but on Sunday night we are going to look at a few duplexes. The FUN part! Hopefully something will happen this weekend, but it's not like we need to move soon. We just learned of some neighbors that sold for a pretty good price and we thought we'd jump on the bandwagon. So if you want to check out our listing or know someone interested in a condo in Brewer's Hill, check it out on www.shorewest.com (under condos) the MLS # is 773110. The good thing we have going for us is that there aren't any other one or two bedroom condos for sale in the Milwaukee area right now that have two parking spaces.