Team A'Hearn

Over the past few weeks, Lily has been teasing us with her slow and steady progress in learning to walk. She’s been able to stumble around for a while, but she’s always needed to hold our hands. Well after tons of practice, she finally took a few steps on her own last night! It was probably due to mommy and I cheering at her, but she thought the whole milestone was just hilarious.

We couldn’t believe how much more carefully we needed to watch her once she started recklessly crawling, so I’m not sure we can fully appreciate how crazy it will be once she really starts running around. Yikes.

Walking has also coincided with another fun milestone this week. She’s been babbling like crazy for months, but has only recently been articulating genuine words (with real meaning). Well rather than waking up each morning with her usual nonsensical discussions, we’ve heard a loud and sing-song “DAAAD! DAAAD!” for the past few days. Ug. Why not mommy? Daddy’s not ready to wake up yet.

A few months ago, we started talking about moving. Two biblical snowstorms and a family-wide stomach bug later, we realized it was suddenly March and we’d barely done anything besides some financial planning and minor online house-hunting. So we mustered up all our discipline and sat down once again with our agent to pull the trigger on this adventure.

Fortunately, I think we’ve accomplished a lot in a short amount of time. My parents were gracious enough to open up a full corner of their basement, and we’ve packed it to the brim with random junk in an effort to declutter our place so it’s suitable to get on the market and show. We’ve seen enough of those TLC shows to know there was just too much stuff in the way. We have also been cleaning like never before and are now ready to actually get a sign out on the lawn.

Within the next day or two we should be on the market, and then despite the fact that we have no need to rush through this process, I imagine things will start happening very quickly.