As my mother is quick to remind me, I am once again WAY overdue for an update. Since my last post, we've had Halloween, Packing up the House, Moving to Boston and Rian turning 6 Months Old! Each of those could be a post in themselves, but I am going to try to summarize them all in one big post... so buckle up!
Our last few weeks at home consisted of packing up boxes, and cleaning up. Regan's favorite part is playing in the leaves that Mom was trying to rake. Luckily we had a lot of leaves to jump in, and we had some really nice warm days to go out an play.
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| Rian and Grandma enjoying the nice weather |
Regan has been testing boundaries like the typical 2 year old, and her behavior is enough to drive me crazy sometimes. However, she has her precious moments which prevent me from selling her on Craigslist.
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| She discovered the Lite Bright at Grandma's house and her and Mommy made this picture |
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| Daddy just had to buy these PJ's for her - she loves Toy Story |
For Halloween this year, Regan got dressed up for a party at the Library and had lots of fun being dressed like a cat.
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| Regan the Cat and Rian the Mouse with Great Grandma Flo on Halloween |
Halloween night was going smashingly when it was time to pass out candy at our house. Regan was on the porch with me yelling to the kids from down the street "Come over to my house, we have candy!", and she helped me fill everyone's bags. Then it all went south. A boy with a scary "scream-like" mask on and a black robe came up, and Regan screamed and ran back into the house resulting in this:
Needless to say, I couldn't get her to go outside anymore and she would run away anytime someone came to the door. She didn't even want to go out and trick-or-treat with me, even with the prospect of getting candy. Maybe next year.
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| I went to make a pie only to find that Phoebe had taken up residence in the pie plate! |
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| Rian finally started rolling over a few weeks ago... now we have a hard time keeping him on his belly! |
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| We've started giving them a bath together, and Regan loves to share her toys with Rian, and "wash" him |
On Monday November 14th, we packed up the UHaul truck and moved out of our house. It was a bittersweet moment for us, since we brought home both kids from the hospital there, had their first nursery there, Regan learned how to walk and talk there... I had to take some final pictures of the kids in their bedrooms
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| One last picture of me before locking the door for the last time! |
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| One last look at the backyard (sans kids toys) |
After a few days at Grandma and Grandpa Kerl's house, we drove to Massachusetts that Friday and closed on our new house!
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| Trying to decide where to begin |
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| First things first, hang up some curtains to we can sleep that night |
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| Then the parents arrived, and we unpacked the table so we could eat some dinner before the heavy lifting |
I will post some pictures of the inside of the house once we get most of the boxes unpacked. That Saturday night, the Grandmas made a Thanksgiving dinner, with all the fixings. We all sat down and had Thanksgiving a little early this year.
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| The cats seemed to adjust well too. |
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| One of our first days here Rian learned how to sit up on his own! |
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| We got so many Thanksgiving cards our first days here! Thank you everyone! |
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| I hung the snowflake prism in the kitchen window, given to us by Aunt Jean & Uncle Ed - thinking of you guys! |
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| Cassandra and baby Mark came to play on Monday |
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| Hugs for Cassandra! |
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| On Wednesday Rian turned 6 Months Old! |
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| The sign didn't last long this time (I had to print it on the back of a copy of Kevin's Resume) |
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| New Appliances (Kitchen Re-Model to follow sometime next year, but the Black Friday specials were too good to pass up!) |
Thursday for Thanksgiving we were all turkey-ed out from leftovers, we tried to go out to eat. But everywhere we went they were serving turkey dinner! So we ended up, of all places, at McDonalds! Regan had her first Happy Meal ever, and the rest of us at our first Big Macs in years!
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| Thanksgiving Dinner |
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| Boston Cream Cake (not pie, apparently (we were corrected)) for Grandma Virginia's Birthday on Saturday |
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| Regan asked me if she could read a book to Rian... maybe she really does love him |
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| Put up the tree yesterday! We have a fireplace to hang our stockings! |
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| Rian getting into the spirit |
Rian has his 6 month appointment on Wednesday, so I will post his measurements when we get back! More house pictures to come!
