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Another house update
They aren’t going to make their original Sept 30th close date…but I don’t think they’ll be too far off. I cannot WAIT to move in! Can I just say how in love with this house I am?? It has more storage space than I think we could ever fill up…hooray! I love the layout. This is pretty much my dream house with the only exception being that in an ideal world I would like more land. Like, acres of it with trees and hills and a breathtaking view. But alas, we cannot afford the house AND the land, so house it is.
The kids were with us as we walked around. Jack repurposed the dining room into a nap area. Charlie followed us around jumping. I’m not sure what it is with kids this age and jumping…this girl would happily spend an hour or more just hopping around. Of course, in our 3rd floor apartment that makes for VERY unhappy neighbors below us…so we’ve had to make a no jumping rule. 
This makes her very sad (and whiny), so she spends pretty much all of our time outside of the apartment jumping everywhere. Today while she was jumping we learned that she can count to 10…in Spanish. Counting to 10 is not new for her, I think she’s up to counting to 100 in ENGLISH, but I had no idea that she could count in Spanish! I think I need to brush up on my Spanish skills, because the child is clearly already smarter than I am and I have to do my best to maintain at least the IMPRESSION that Mommy knows it all.
Kid updates
Charlie has settled in pretty well to having a new brother. She’s still being a bit more “high maintenance” than usual, but overall I’m very proud of her. She’s very sweet on Jack himself, and apparently at her preschool they hear ALL about him.
And one to prove that she *doesn’t* look hungover in EVERY photo we take:
Jack has been great…he generally still sleeps a lot and hasn’t been too much of a pain at night. He eats well and is growing, he was 8 pounds 4 oz at his 2-week doctor’s appointment! They were amazed, they usually just want to see babies back up to birth weight by that age, but he’s put on a pound and a half over that. The boy likes to eat LOL!
The obligatory cute sleeping baby picture:
He's here!
Born on Monday, August 20th…introducing Jonathan David Lamy, a.k.a. “Jack”. 
) 6 pounds 13 oz, 19.5 inches long, and doing great! We just got home and are getting settled…here are some pictures, and I’ll post more updates in a day or two.
Feeling nostalgic today
I was just booking a photography session with my favorite photographer for after the baby is born. I want to get really nice pictures of us as a whole family. This woman does beautiful work, but is pretty $$$ so we haven’t had pictures done since Charlie turned 1. Ironically, it was also 3 days after Leo joined our family, and I suggested to the photographer that I could bring him to the session. She looked at me like I was crazy, and I tried to reassure her that he was quite a mellow puppy (he was! I don’t know what happened to him!). Anyway, I was just reminiscing and looking back through the proofs….awwwwww.
There were a lot more pictures that didn’t include Leo, but trying to keep it somewhat dog-related…
Some 2-legged child pictures
I needed to go through a lot of pictures that we’ve taken in the past month…and I needed to look at some cute pictures to remind myself that Charlie is NOT always such a witch. LOL She is cutting her 2-year molars, and therefore has not been sleeping well. And a tired toddler is a CRANKY toddler, so it’s been a bit…trying lately.
Some pictures from when we went to the Nashville Zoo…they have a petting zoo that she is VERY fond of.
This llama is HILARIOUS…you may have to click to the bigger picture, but his bottom teeth just stick straight out of his mouth! The zookeeper was telling the kids all about how he got special food, etc.
Yes, she is a daddy’s girl.
Pictures
I call this picture…”Leo, summed up”.
