Last Night in Condo

 

I am taking a break right now from packing. The moveres arrive tomorrow at 8:00 am to move us to our temporary house for the next five weeks. We are excited, but also sad. This was the first home that we brought our children to, the last home we lived in when both of our fathers were still alive...it was just a really wonderful home and we are sad to say goodbye. If only it had two more extra rooms, a basement and a backyard.

 

The kids have been fabulous during the packing. Kerala has been very into helping us pack and attempting to climb on all of the packed boxes. Kerala did say that she was sad to be moving, but hopefully it will be short lived and she will transition smoothly into her new home and surroundings. Kian should be pretty pscyhed about his new house - he will have his own room which is at least 3x the size of his current room (aka as my closet).


 

As far as development goes, Kian continues to walk more and more every day. At times he will take up to 5 steps, however, he still prefers crawling. His language development is still amazing - today, he kpet saying "OK Sam" when we were making fun of Troy acting like his father. Kerala and Kian also have been getting along fantastically. Their favorite actiivty is to wrestle, which can get pretty intense. Kerala is doing great - I don't think I have posted that she is officially potty trained. We only do diapers at night (we tried one night without and that was a disaster). The only problem with being potty trained is that we had to unbabyproof her door at night so she could use the potty. The problem is that occassionally Troy and I will get a visit from her around 4:00am or so. The other morning she came to our room at 4:30 to tell me that I didn't tickle her before she went to bed and that she needed me to tickle her. This morning she came up to let me know that her nightlight was out of batteries.

We should be able to post from our temporary housing, but in case we can't - we'll write with pictures shortly after we get into our new home.

A long long past due update....

 

For the past two months we have been crazy busy with house-related stuff. We bought a new home, which we close on in a little over a week. Between packing, working, picking out (fighting over) paint colors, etc...we have been really busy. The kids have been great through it all - Kerala has generally been pretty psyched about the new house. She has requested that her room be a space theme with a castle and an elevator. We are accommodating hte space theme request. While we close in a little over a week, we won't be moving in until the end of June while some work is being done at the house. We are very fortunate in that a friend of ours has a vacant house in the city that we will be using for the next month and a half. The only downside is that we basically have to move twice. If all goes well, we will be in the house in July. That will give us plenty of time to adjust before Kerala starts preschool.

The kids are doing great - Kian has been taking some steps, not a ton. Today he walked from me to our friend Alba, twice! The funny thing is that he only seems to be taking steps at Kerala's art class. Even though he isn't walking, he is talking like crazy. At this point, I would say he has between 20 to 30 words. He is really picking up verbally and it's just amazing. I think it's because he hears Kerala chattering away non stop. Today was pretty funny because Kerala was getting pretty bossy with him and Kian responded in a pretty bossy garble of words.

 

As I mentioned, Kerala is pretty psyched about the new house. She has been talking about preschool a lot and I think she is ready for it. She is very into having friends and will go up to any kid at the park and introduce herself and ask them what their name is, so I think preschool will be a great environment for her. We are still figuring out which preschool she will be attending, but for now it looks like we are going to send her to a Spanish immersion preschool. It's a block away from our new home, so it is in an ideal location.