Category: Life

The Toddler was in full force today.

I tried to have a shower while she was occupied with her toys. Didn’t work. Eventually, after a little head and hands poked into my shower (getting soaked in the process) for the tenth time, I stripped her off and put the plug in and she had a shower with me.

I left the water in to be used on the garden later.

Getting dressed was something that she SHALL. NOT. BE. SUBJECTED. TO! And I was a MEAN MEAN MUMMY for doing it.

I finally got her dressed (cue cheers) and (the second) breakfast served. While I wasn’t looking, she fed her (second) breakfast to the cat. I can only assume from the amount of grumpiness that reared it’s ugly head, that the first breakfast had gone to the cat as well.

Sigh.

As I was preparing to go out (hair makeup etc) Toddler came into the bathroom and threw the roll of toilet paper into the toilet before I could stop her. She emptied a cup of water all over the floor and finally, as a final encore of Toddlerhood, she fell in the bath.

Fully dressed.

After I had taken 20 mins to dress her.

Sigh.

We eventually got out the door and Toddler was fed vegemite and cheese sandwiches in the car because I had finally realised that she was still hungry. Maybe the cat looking satisfied and NOT yowling for food should have tipped me off?

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Toddler enjoys shopping, as long as Toddler is not in any way, shape, or form constrained in a trolley, stroller, or arms. Hand-holding is also out of the question as it restricts Toddler’s movement.

I juggled finding 2 new pairs of pants for Toddler, a handbag and a hot drink (chai tea latte).

Toddler raced around the shop causing Toddler chaos in her wake. I spent the whole time putting the soft toys back onto their shelf and re-packaging all the shoes.

Also apologising. Did I mention the apologising?

At one point Toddler realised that there was music! over the sound system. She raced around the shop, with me and her Nan (my mum) in hot pursuit. As soon as she found a slightly empty space (a dance floor if you will) she proceeded to dance and sing and generally perform.

Drama queen.

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Toddler is unhappy about any attempt to contain her in a trolley. UNLESS you sit her in the main bit along with all the food.

So, being a person to take the path of least resistance I let her sit in with the food.

After Toddler unwrapped my block of chocolate, I realised I may have made a (slightly, very small) bad decision.

If you are in the supermarket and you notice a block of unwrapped, slightly chewed, macadamia nut chocolate hidden amongst the pads, please pretend you didn’t see it. I am truly sorry.

After a while Toddler decided that causing chaos OUTSIDE of the trolley was the new fun thing to do.

Did you know that there are dogs on the cans of dog food? Toddler let me know.

There are cats on the cat food. Toddler let me know this also.

Even better? A Scottish Terrier is actually a cat and Toddler won’t have anyone tell her that it isn’t.

‘TAT!’

‘No Sweetheart, that is a dog’

Toddler points at a Border Collie.

‘Dis dooooooo ag’

‘Yep, that’s a dog’

Toddler points at a Terrier

‘TAT!!’

‘No, that’s a dog.’

‘NO! TAT!’ stomps foot
Sigh.

‘Come look at the cats then…’

EVERYTHING actually should be placed on the floor for ease of access for Toddler shelf climbing. Toddler saw to this today and was mightily unimpressed when I put everything back where it belonged.

She threw herself backwards when I held her.

She ran away when I didn’t.

For a final straw, as I was packing the groceries back into the trolley after paying for them, I trapped a (very energetic) Toddler between the wall, myself and the trolley.

Toddler is a mighty escape artist. So mighty in fact that she crawled underneath the trolley to escape. She would have managed it too had her pesky foot not gotten stuck and her MEAN MEAN MUMMY not removed her from there.

Cue tantrum.

I think I lost weight today.

We got pre-approval.

Don’t know what I am talking about? Read this.

Right, done?

We got pre-approval!!!

The catch? We have to find $1000 to pay out the rest of the money owed on the car. Provided we can do that (within a week) then they will give us our home loan.

We bought the house!!! WOOOOOOOOT!

Sorry, this was just an updaty post. Toddler post to follow.

Soooooooooo, we went to the mortgage brokers. Don’t know what I am talking about? Go here and see. I will wait.

Good you’re back.

There is good news and bad news here, okay?

Firstly the bad news – we won’t know anything for definite for a few days.

The good news? Apparently we look good on paper, and the few things that MAY go wrong for us can all be fixed. The mortgage broker is confident that it will go through, EVENTUALLY.

Nathan has a $200 bill in collection, that we only found out about recently. The telephone company was supposed to forward our old bills on to us when we moved here and they didn’t, hence a bill in collection. IF that stops it going through, we write a handwritten explanation and fax it through to the bank, along with a ‘paid in full’ receipt.

The second thing that could go wrong is the car. We have a current car loan, due to be fully paid off in April. IF this makes us too far extended for the bank to give us a loan, we just pay the car loan out, and then put the application back through.

Very little will actually stop is getting this loan, a few things will just defer it.

We will buy this house.

The mortgage broker is going to bend over backwards (no, not like that. Your mind is in the gutter again) to get us our loan (and him his BIG commission).

YAY!

I will ring them on Wednesday to try and find out whether the application is approved or deferred. Note, I didn’t say rejected? It shouldn’t get rejected. Now we just need to come up with 1k to pay out the car if need be. *sigh* We need rich relatives.

So maybe hold off on the champagne and just have the cheese today.

Thankyou so much to I Can Has Cheezburger for these photos.

We are due at the mortgage brokers at 1pm. I am so nervous now, even though I wasn’t over the weekend. Send good thoughts.

Amy’s newest trick is to sit on the arms of the couches.

Now, remember when I told you all about how I had BIG NEWS! and I wasn’t allowed to share yet? Weeeeell, Nat and I discussed it and he doesn’t mind if I blog about it now.

So anyways, the story first and then the photos.

Last week, one of Nathan’s work colleagues told him about a house for sale, quite cheap (read: 50k cheaper than other places about the place) so Nat and I enquired about it, thinking that it would probably have been sold already. (Yes, it was that cheap). It doesn’t look pretty on the outside, but the inside is nice, very comfortable, and we really liked it. (They could have cleaned up the yard for the photos at least, sheesh! It has had a lot of work done since these photos were taken btw)

Anyways, we made an offer and the owner accepted. It has so much potential for us to do things to it. Plus the yard is HUMUNGOUS, see? Can you see the teensy tiny fence in the back of the photo? Near the power pole? That is the boundary line.

Woooooo Hoooooo!

The kitchen has a large bench running alongside the edge of the photo that you can’t see, and the kitchen/living/dining are all open plan. No more slaving in the kitchen all alone. No, now I will be able to throw things at Nat if he doesn’t help fast enough.

SOOOOOOO, we bought a house! (insert squeals and jumping up and down here) Well, almost. We speak to a finance broker tomorrow, so please, cross every little thing you can, send us all the good thoughts, pray, whatever you do. Please, we need this house. I neeeed to get out of these rental properties. I need to stop moving. When (not if) we move in there, it will be our 6th move in 3 years. *sigh*

I will update tomorrow when we get home with what the Mortgage broker said. Either be ready with champagne, or with tissues and chocolate. K?

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