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Ok, so Tara is 2 months shy of her 2nd birthday but her attitude is becoming more and more of a 2 year old. She states her opinion on things which is usually no mommy or no daddy. On top of that she now really gets into some of the temper tantrums. Now this has been a gradual process over about the last 6 months, but now you can tell she is coming up on 2. I think it really got to Sam today. I think he was kind of happy to go out to get me some tums without us. We tried to get Tara to go, but she wanted nothing to do with going out.

I do have to say though, when she is in a good mood she can just be so much fun. She is really obsessed with babies right now. She especially likes baby Lucie, our friends’ 3 month old. She also had a lot of fun coming to my last doctor’s appointment so she could hear her baby sister. I hope the baby fascination sticks.

So yes there are good times and some really not so good. And to think I am looking forward to another. I do have to say that I am really not a fan of being pregnant, and I just want the little girl to get here.

Ok… So as I mentioned in my last post we are planning to move before the baby is born… Ugh… The most annoying part is we don’t want to pay rent in 2 places for more then a month or so, cause especially with the rent around here it would be a pain.  So we really can’t move until March 1st, but I am at least trying to get an idea of an idea of what is out there now.  Anyways, so I am using this post to write out our requirements/wishes for our new place.

Requirements:

• Rent less than $2000/month preferably around $1700/month
• Allows for 1 small cat… He really is a good cat and one of the family so he must come with

Wishes:

• Within 10 miles preferably 5 miles of Ricoh in Cupertino so Sam can bike
• Larger then our current place which is 2br 1.5ba 1088 sq ft (It doesn’t have to necessarily have 3 bedrooms as the girls can share a room, but we do need a place for them to play so a den or something would work too)
• Washer and Dryer or at least Hookups (I realized with 2 kids at home this will make a big difference)
• Bigger backyard/patio space (right now Tara’s sandbox takes up pretty much the patio)
• Preferably 2 full baths so that I don’t have to share with the girls.  One could even be just a shower and not a bathtub, but I would love space separate from the girls.
• Garage (mainly so we can have storage especially for bikes also could work as a play area for the girls too)
• Shower curtain not doors on bath (I don’t really want to deal with having to bath kids with the sliding doors on the bath)

Now I think that is everything and it is mostly in order of priority for wishes.  Now I can find some places now that fit to a lot of this, but of course they want someone to move in now not in March.  So I shall wait and see.  If anyone has experience with any property management companies and wants to give me their info that would be great.  Or if you know of a place that would be even better.

Ok… So I haven’t updated in forever.. Now you may be wondering why.  Well it is really because there has been a lot going on in my life and on my mind that I really felt a bit weird writing about all of it.  Now that life is starting to get a bit more straightened out I thought I would write about everything.

So as I have mentioned before, I am pregnant with #2.  It is another little girl.  She is due April 11th, so 100 days from today.  Things have actually gone pretty smoothly so far.  I did have a tumble down the stairs early on, but it was on my butt, so I was fine.  Other then that I have really just been darn worn out.  Chasing an almost 2 year old around while pregnant is a lot of work.  The other stresses that I have been putting myself under probably haven’t helped either.  So Sam had a contract position at Google doing help desk it stuff… Well that contract ran out back in October, so Sam has been job hunting.  Sam was applying everywhere.  Well it actually almost looked like we were going to make a really quick move to Denver.  Now there would have been pluses and minuses of this, but luckily Sam has found work here…  He got a job offer last week… But during all of this I put myself through a lot of stress…  On another note, my funding ends at the end of this month… Now this actually works really well timing-wise since I would actually like some time not working before #2 enters the world.  In all honesty, we would really like for #2 to stay home for the first year in the same way Tara did.  So it may be a bit before I go back to work, but I do plan to.  And we will see how long I really can stay away.

So anyways, yes Sam’s job is here in the bay area, but we are thinking about moving.  Honestly we would like to find someplace cheaper, closer to where he will work, with a washer and dryer and maybe a bit more space.  I know it is a lot to ask, but we can hope. Of course our lease here ends on my due date, so we hope to move in March.  We don’t really want to pay rent in 2 places for too many months.  Yes this does mean we will be moving while I am really really pregnant.

Umm… anything else… Well we did have a good Christmas. Tara got spoiled of course, but it was so much fun watching her Christmas morning.  Other then that she is getting to be a real big girl.  We got her big girl bed for christmas, and now that we finally got the railing so hopefully tomorrow she will move into her bed.  We will see how that goes.

Now to go back to watching more episodes of Smallville.  Hopefully I will post more often.