Our Move [in photos]

Keys!  Right after our closing... super excited and terrified!

The second or third time Lettie has slept in her car seat outside of the car - taking her first nap in our first house!

Hanging out in our empty house the first day.  Lettie mostly stared at the ceiling fan while Anni ran big circles.  We also tried out somewhere around six samples of blue paint in the girls' room-to-be before we found the right one so we could be ready to paint the next day.

Last bath in the apartment!

We were so excited when our new couches arrived!  A place to rest as we painted, painted, painted!  (And by we, I mean Daniel's parents and grandparents and Daniel... I mostly watched babies.)

Lots of lovin' for "his peanut" from Deda!

And lots of kisses and Yugoslavian nursery rhymes from Baba.

After three long days of painting and preparing and one very tiring Saturday of moving, we had our first night in the new house!

That's right, matching jammies... just too adorable to pass up!

Good night, new house, good night!

Moving

The big moving day is upon us... t-minus 8.5 hours until our official start...  here's hoping all goes quickly and smoothly!

New.

We moved.  And it was the best moving experience I have ever had.  Why, you ask?  Well, it may be that my mother and sister did most of the work, because they are amazing and understood a variety of things that kept me miserable and trying to catch up on my work. 

And?  It may be that the new apartment has washer and dryer, is bigger, has a bathroom larger than the toilet, has walk-in closets, did I mention the washer and dryer?!, has a fireplace, cuts down Daniel's commute by at least half an hour, and really, we have a washer and dryer IN our apartment.  Sure, there are a few small things we don't absolutely love, but overall, it's perfect right now (oh!  And we have wonderful friends who live one complex over, I'm thrilled about that!).

Miss Anni revealed several new skills over that time... which always happens when my mama is around.  She followed my mom as she vacuumed and had to touch the light on the vacuum as often as possible.  She also started to stand all on her own for brief periods of time when we let her hands go and is rocking the cruising.  She has taken to hugging and kissing... total heart melter!  She crawls around making kissing noises until you pick her up and kiss her back, though her favorite thing to kiss is definitely her dolls.  

Having my mom here is always wonderful... but my daughter getting past her severe stranger anxiety and playing happily for minutes on end with her?  So wonderful in so many ways.  I am so blessed to have such a wonderful woman in my life to look up to!
 

 

And speaking of wonderful women, having my sister and her family here was a blast.  One of the few things I dislike about living in Colorado are being away from my family and having Miss Anni not get the chance to play with her cousins all the time.  While she and Q had a love-hate relationship, she would play with the two older girls quite happily as if she was thrilled they would include her.

And, while rain made moving a little difficult, I am so grateful for it.  I just wish I could pass it on to all of the places who are suffering so badly for want of it right now.

So, this may be a little disjointed, because I worked on this entry all day while I had a few moments... and I'm too tired to proofread, so it's going to be what it's going to be.

and to all a good night.