RE: hardwood or carpet???
Hardwood - hands down. We put hardwood throughout the house when we bought it three years ago, exept in Colin's room and the two other smaller bedrooms. I now wish that we had gone 100% hardwood - the carpet is so much harder to keep clean (dust, pet hair) and everything just wipes up off of it. When Colin was in his super-pukey phase, it was soooo nice being able to just hold him over the floor when he threw up. And pet messes (cat puke is popular around here) wipe right up.
Though if you already have decent carpeting in some rooms, you could wait to redo those. We had awful bright green carpeting throughout almost the entire house!!
Single mom to
DS ("twice exceptional") - September 2002
DS - February 2006
DD - July 2009
DD - July 2009