Compartment 14B

Eschewing chewing. 2009-03-09 - 9:41 p.m. We’ve got a couple of irons in the fire, but if they don’t pan out by this Wednesday, we’re going to list our house with a real estate agent. In the meantime, we’ve been cleaning the place and trying to keep it clean between showings. Bleah. Of course, listing with an agent won’t mean we no longer have to prepare the house for showings, it just means we won’t be the ones booking the showings any longer. And we’ll be giving up 5% of our selling price in the form of commission. Bah. It’s not that I don’t respect the work agents do, I just would have liked to be able to do it myself and save myself some money. I’d like to think I’m pretty real-estate savvy, y’know? I keep an eye on the local prices, have a decent grasp of how to market a property, and Lord knows I watch enough HGTV now that I’m home with the Biscuit. :: I know I’ve cut back to updating only once a week lately. I’m sorry for that, but I’ve been having to split my computer time with getting my photography stuff done and my new website set up. I’ve noticed about a 50% drop in readership as a result, so to those 4 people I have to say that I’m sorry. I don’t know when I’ll be writing more often but I do promise not to go below this once-a-week thing I’ve got going on right now, even if I am staring down the daunting barrel of having to learn things like WordPress and web design. :: Biscuit is crawling with a lot more proficiency now that he’s in his second week of this activity. I was wrong in my last entry, by the way, he’s actually a month ahead of Grommet for this milestone. Still, she beat him on having teeth and talking, so it evens out. One slightly perturbing development: at his 9-month check-up it was discovered that he’s now dropped to only the 10th percentile for weight, while staying steady at 50% for height. This is a huge drop from the mini-sumo state he was in of 75th percentile. D’ya think it might have something do to with eschewing solid foods still? This boy needs calories! He doesn’t look scrawny, but he’s not the plump little butterball he was, and now that he’s even more active it’s more imperative than ever that he eat something! We’ve tried yogurt this week, as well as cheese and corn, plus we’ve re-tried potatoes and all the usual suspects like rice cereal. Still nada. He hates it all. Today he’s got a fever so he’s eating even less than usual. Poor little guy. I hope this bug goes away quickly and relatively painlessly. He’s also sleeping very restlessly so this, I’m afraid, is it for now… 0 comments so far Before - After All content © Shawna 2003-2009 That means no swiping my stuff - text, images, etc. - without asking. P.S. If you're emailing me, replace the [at] with @ in the "to" line. Oh, and if you put the word "journal" in the subject line it'll have a better chance of making it past my junk mail filters. recommend me HTML and design help by Jo hosted by Diaryland