Buyer's Market???

Forgive me if I use too many exclamation points here...but Holy Cow!!! Remember that house I mentioned that we really liked? We made an offer on it today!! But get THIS.

This house, which has been on the market for 3 days, had one offer on it that expired at noon today. When we went to the house for a second showing this morning, someone had jammed a key in the lock (so no one else could get in?). We also learned that there were going to be THREE MORE showings this afternoon!! (if anyone can figure out how to get in) So we submitted another offer, 15 minutes before theirs expired. As we were loading the kids into the car, the agent ran out to tell that our offer had been verbally accepted (with one minor change)!! HOWEVER, he won't be able to get it in writing until this evening or tomorrow morning, so if the original bidders (or any of the folks planning to see it today) get an offer in before then, the sellers would have another offer to consider.

How is it possible, that in this terrible housing market, we end up in a bidding war? I guess that shows that the place is a hot commodity. So our offer expires at noon tomorrow, so we'll have to know something by then. I'm a nervous-wreck, I really hope it goes through!

Oh, and if it does, we'd close on May 1st!

I'll be over here biting my nails if you need me...

Video/potty update/OMG-we're-moving-post-#2

I fell off the bandwagon a bit on the monthly videos of David. So here's one to catch up, which really has no purpose except to demonstrate what Bubs is like at 11 months. We've been looking back at videos of Katy when she was this age, and it's amazing the difference between them. He's a perfectly loveable little boy...

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Ugh. Potty training. People told me it would be hard, but it's a lot of work! We've made good progress, though. Knock on wood, we haven't had any wet accidents for the past two days. Pooping, well, we're having a harder time with that one. I can't tell you those stories, though, or you may never want to visit us again. So we'll continue to move forward and see what happens from here.

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So....we looked at this house today. And I kinda...um....love it. But it's priced to sell and not going to last long, and we were hoping not to move quite so quickly (remember we don't have renters here until Sept. 1). But we like it. And I'll probably dream about it tonight. We are going to make some calls tomorrow and see what our options might be to make a move. A hundred things would have to fall in line for this to be our new house, but we'll see.

Potty Weekend Retreat

I feel like we've been camped out in our house this weekend - a very unusual experience for us, we are not homebodies. But we stuck around and gave potty training an old college try. (what does that mean, anyway?)

So overall I think it's been successful, and hopefully it will get better this week. Katy is peeing in the potty most of the time, and we had fewer accidents on the 2nd day than the first. I think she gets it, it's just a matter of learning to stop what she's doing and get the to potty in time. We had a poop success, and a poop non-success, if you know what I mean.

So here's my next round of questions. (Sorry I'm always bugging you guys with questions. You do such a good job of answering them, though.) Is it normal for her to be peeing every 15 minutes or so? Or is that a sign that she's not ready yet? I've been giving her lots of juice, so I know that could explain it. But sometimes we're literally just getting cleaned up from the last potty, and she says she has to go again. I'm wondering if she's just doing it for the stickers...

Right now I'm using the plastic potty, mostly because we don't have a bathroom on the main floor. But we still have to drag the silly thing upstairs to empty it out and wash hands, so it's not really saving any steps, just making it closer for her to "make it." How long do you think until I can ask her to try to go upstairs to go? How long before they can hold it at all?

And then what is the strategy for getting out of the house? I don't have any plans until Friday, but I'm having a hard time imagining going anywhere at this point. And when we have to use a public restroom, what on earth am I supposed to do with David? Sit him on the bathroom floor, where he will crawl under to the next stall or put his mouth on the toilet paper dispenser? I almost think it would be better to leave him in the cart (just kidding, I know that's not an option). Seriously, strategies?

I know that timing is never perfect, but I keep thinking maybe this would've been easier before David was mobile (there is nowhere I can put the potty where Katy can get to it but David can't). And if we weren't moving, I'd be begging Brian to install a first floor halfbath... at least I'm getting some exercise.