This month was a hodge-podge of side-projects and home-improvement.
We are trying to refinance, so we did a lot of work on the house in an attempt to appraise high enough to refinance. Sadly we only have to appraise $67,000 less than what our house appraised for when we bought it to qualify. Sadder still, there is a good chance we wont appraise high enough. It would be great though, as it would reduce our payment by $200 a month. Keep your fingers crossed!
ZebraStrut is now registered for business. I still need to get content on the website, finish our first product (ExpoStrut) and have all the partners sign a contract, but things are looking good. The office in the garage is also progressing well.
Fintan is on the cusp of crawling. I think if we dressed him in less slippery pants, he would have it down.
Orianna is still loving to sing and dance. Her new favorite song is "Jump in the Line" by Harry Belafonte (you may know it from the end of Beetle Juice). It is pretty fun to dance with her. I will sing that song for her before bed, and she will shake, jump, and dance.
Tamara has been knee-deep in parenting, while helping me with all the home improvement.
I got a bunch of Wii games for Christmas, so I am depriving myself of sleep in order to get to play them ;) I got Donkey Kong Country (thanks Jason!), Goldeneye, & Super Mario Galaxy 2 (all of which are completely awesome [as long as you have a gamepad for Goldeneye. It sucks with the wii-mote]).
Hope you were all as spoiled as I was for Christmas, and that your New Year is a great one!
-The Bates Family
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Becky and I have decided that we are not going to walk while Sophie can see us, that way we don't have to worry about her learning to walk. We figure that she will be easier to take care of if she never learns to walk. So a good strategy is to keep dressing Fintan in slippery pants, then he'll never master crawling.
Good luck on the refinancing. I hope it all works out for you.
It sounds like you are both working hard to increase your property values and get somewhere in life. Becky and I are still working hard, paying rent to get somebody else somewhere in life.
:)
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