July in Retrospect

Since we haven't posted for a while I'll give you a summary of what we've done over the past month.

First, an update on Lucy. She is officially 7 months old as of today. She is pretty close to being able to crawl. She can push herself up on her knees and then rocks back and forth. She knows that she can move her knees from this position but hasn't figured out that she needs to move her arms forward too so she just falls flat on her face... sad but very very cute.

After draining the tub in the master bathroom a couple weeks ago, there was a waterfall of water that fell into the kitchen from above. We filed a claim with our home warranty company and a plumber came out to take a look. When he cut a hole in the ceiling he discovered extensive water damage in the ceiling and walls and mold in all of the walls and ceiling. Because the mold is still wet, it does not make the air harmful to breathe, but as soon as it dries it can become a big problem. I filed a claim with our homeowners insurance for water damage there and also for water damage in the living room where the planter drains directly into the floor haha. Oh, the joys of homeownership. Hopefully we can get all this stuff under control soon. We've also had problems with our our automatic pool cleaner. It only actually works about half the time. It's been a rough tim getting ahold of the Hayward warranty place too. Just so many things that one takes for granted as an apartment dweller :-)

We are going to Disneyland on Sunday. We went to a timeshare presentation and that was our gift for listening to the guy talk for 2 hours. We're going to take Lucy with us during the day, then drop her off with my parents and go back to enjoy the evening together alone at Disneyland. After Disneyland, we're going to a crappy motel, also courtesy of the timeshare company, and will spend the night there and pick Lucy up early the next morning. It should be a blast!

We've keeping very busy around the house since our last update. We planted a bunch of plants in the backyard and it's looking very nice. The bedrooms and bathrooms are all put together and the number of projects on my plate for the next few weeks is dwindiling slowly but surely.