I Hate Snow!

Well, I ended up catching Lauryn's cold :(  I think we're at the tail end of it though...finally!  Even though she's been sick, it hasn't slowed her down one bit.  I think we can officially say she's walking now!!!  At first it was a few steps between me and Lloyd, then a few on her own between the furniture and now  she pull up on anything and just go!  When she starts getting wobbly, she stops and gets it together and takes off again!  Have I mentioned before that I am not ready for all of this?

I am so excited about her Christmas gift.  Lloyd and I decided that we'd do mostly gifts from Santa but that we each wanted to get her a special gift - one from Mama and one from Dada.  Lloyd is still looking for a pink chainsaw for her :)  and the gift I ordered came today :)  It took me a while to decide just what I wanted to get her and I came across this site My Bambino that specializes in personalized items.  I decided to get her a jewelry box with her name on the top.  It also has some flowers and butterflies on the drawers.  It's a small one that she can keep her own keepsakes in as she gets older.  When it got here and I opened it, I was so happy with it!!  I'll have to post a pic when Lloyd brings the camera home.
I am so not ready for Christmas yet.  I don't have any of the decorations out, the tree is not up and other than Lauryn's jewelry box, no other presents have been bought.  I am looking forward to a little holiday baking this year :)

On a crappier note, we're having issue with water in the basement again.  It hasn't come up on the floor but it's awfully close.  We're hoping to be able to get someone out here tomorrow but with the weather being as bad as it's getting, we'll see.  We've had someone out here, snaking the pipes four or five times now and we've only been in this house since March!  At the very least we've learned that when the sinks start gurgling, that's our clue to get it taken care of.  Otherwise, we'll have a flooded basement...again!  If we can't figure out what's causing these problems, we're never going to be able to finish the basement and that's terrible because it's huge down there.  I'm sure we'll figure something out.

I guess that just a little update for now :)