Summer Sunshine + HOUSE!!

What an AMAZING couple of weeks it has been- sunny, full of friends and family and small days out, all back home in Aberdeen. It was so lovely to be away down south, but when we settle somewhere new to me it always feels like home. I am lucky that I am adaptable like that naturally. But now I am not keen to move on anywhere, which is especially good news since WE ARE BUYING OUR FIRST HOUSE!!! The mortgage lenders are just finishing having everything go through at the moment- only one thing to go- a second valuation- since they didn't like the fact that the first was a standard Scottish one and not one of their chosen surveyors (ooh, picky!) but once that is done in a few days we should be all sealed and dealed! (dealt?! :D)

The house is in a village called Newmachar, which is 5 mins from where we live at the moment. It is lovely, with a good community feel and BUS ROUTES in and out! The best you could hope for and more really! Everything inside has been recently done and to an amazing standard. We actually put an offer on a different house at the beginning of last week, but got ourselves into an epic Scottish-style bidding war that we totally failed at! Then, *miraculously* a new house came on the market literally as we found that our offer on the other house was rejected. We jumped on it-it was just right- we saw it that night and put an offer in the next morning. We found out that our offer was accepted the next day. I can't quite believe that our speedy offer worked, it was only on the market for one afternoon!

To be honest this is an even better house than the first one we liked, and for a snip of the what the other one must have gone for! It is in pristine condition, the garden is more beautiful, it looks better from the outside. Maybe Heavenly Father had this in place for us a long time ago when Oliver got a place at Newmachar playgroup?! I can believe that of him :) Ben can cycle to work on a designated cycle path so I have the car and we will save all that petrol, AND it is the best possible place for keeping my violin pupils!!! Truly amazing.

Happy days, we have been truly blessed this past couple of weeks. We have worked hard to be ready for this but I believe that it is going to pay off very soon :) All fingers and toes are crossed that this last thing with the new home survey will go smoothly.

And now that the sun is out, I have been thinking about The Corrs. They always make me feel summery!

The boy speaks!!

Oliver has practically doubled his vocabulary the last couple of days!! I am bowled over every other time he opens his mouth! The new words he has come out with since the weekend are: me, chocolate, toe, cheese, ball, bubble, and ow. WOW!! We also just has our first proper conversation (i.e. one in which he has used words and not just me!) It went like this:

Oliver: "Ow!"
Me: "Oh no, what hurts?"
Oliver lifts up his leg and says: "toe"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *Gasp* Very proud motherly moment! :)

Baby Two's Photoshoot :)

Typical baby shot- it is definitely in there!

Stretching out the legs

Front on- you can see a couple of eyes

It has an arm!

Exciting, wonderful, happy, lovely news!

Ben is back, hooray!!! He got back yesterday afternoon and all is well :)

In other news, I can confirm that... I am housing an 88 mm small Twiglet in my tummy. Hooray!!!!

I got to see it on the ultrasound yesterday morning, and despite it doing "advanced gymnastics" with its ankles crossed we could see a heartbeat, and few limbs and a couple of eyes too, so hooray it is really in there! Baby Two is due mid-May, although I have to go back for another scan tomorrow morning (hooray, Ben will be there!) so they can measure stuff properly and give me a more accurate due date. I saw two different specialists yesterday because they couldn't get it to budge out of a very tight corner (VERY close to my bladder!)- but to no avail. I am 15 weeks along and after feeling pretty rubbish for the first few weeks I am now feeling wonderful... just starting to put on the podge and really look as though I might be pregnant! Happy, happy news.

Pictures to follow- hopefully he/she will be feeling more photogenic tomorrow!

We are officially moving to....

Today was pretty eventful: Ben got his exam results (hooray!!) AND we finally know where BP are sending us!!!! We are going to...

ABERDEEN!

We are very excited, although that is all we know so far. We will probably be there for 1-2 years.

Oliver is 6 months, and other news

Oliver turned six months on Tuesday (7th June). He can NEARLY sit up by himself, and is rolling about and chatting more than ever. Six months is the start of more varied and exciting foods and a LOT more mess! As well as his fruit or veg puree for lunch, this week he has had dinners featuring a piece of toast, fromage frais, a hunk of cheddar cheese, and a couple of strips of pitta bread with soft cheese on. Going well so far!

In other news, we sent in our application for Olympic tickets in April, applying for five events in the hope that we would get at least one or two, but no luck. Ben and I have been checking and rechecking our bank accounts for any stray money going out over the last couple of weeks, and feeling pretty miserable about all the sob stories about getting no olympic tickets that keep cropping up in the news. Apparantly all the money was debited by 31st May :(

BUT! Last night we were bemoaning our sorrow again (!) and I remembered that I need to pay my credit card bill- and I was scratching my head trying to work out why there was £47 going out from a company I couldn't remember buying from... it called itself WWW.TICKETS.LONDON2012...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hooray, we have been checking our joint debit account for weeks! I must have put it on the other account. How cooool!! No idea what it's for yet, but after the sadness of being part of half the country who were unsuccessful, we're going after all!! :)

Amazing news I can't believe I forgot to mention...

Olly Woo slept his longest stint EVER last night. He went 5 hrs 45 mins between feeds and he didn't even sleep in our bed either!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's 1 hr 45 mins longer than his previous personal best- woo! :)