All moved in!

Well folks, we've moved! Friday August 1st was our big moving day and it went great. The movers were really nice. They started when Addie was eating breakfast and she rewarded their admiration of her with big well-rested smiles and waves from her high chair, which meant that they said hi to her each and every time they went past her. It made for a very fun morning. The moving of the furniture and all the packed boxes was done before noon! Of course, when you're only moving 10 minutes away, there's a lot of "oh, we'll just bring that over in the car" and so by the time we packed and moved *everything* and thoroughly cleaned up the old place, we barely got Addie's crib set up before it was her bedtime.

Unfortunately, all did not go without a hitch. I (Monica) was sick on moving day with a summer cold, which wasn't bad, but wasn't too fun either. When it was Addie's bath time we realized we had no hot water! We had to boil water on the stove and bring it upstairs to mix with the cold water to get her a decent temperature bath (we felt like pioneers!). We didn't have hot water until Monday night :( Luckily, our friends Joe and Renelle live just a few houses down and let us shower there, but it doesn't make life easy. When the plumbers finally came on Monday they informed us that a wall would have to be taken down to replace the water heater. Yay.
Then, Steve found mold in the basement and so we rented an industrial rug cleaner to clean ALL the carpets in the whole town house (which is, by the way, almost all carpet). That of course doesn't fix the mold found in the ceiling that they can't take care of next week. What else? Oh yes...this weekend one of our car's rear-view mirror came off---along with some of the glass of the windshield, so that's in the shop getting replaced as we speak. I can't think of what else happened, but despite all the craziness, we're in good spirits and Addie is adjusting well to the new place.

Here are some of our favorite pictures from the past couple of weeks:

Addie continuing to be extremely helpful at packing by having fun playing in boxes...


Mmm...tasty...


Last dinner in the old place...Addie practicing pointing with Daddy...we call it her "Sistine Chapel move."

Tofu and blueberries...dinner of champions. Can I have a bite?


Last bedtime story in the old place. Goodnight moon. Goodnight room. Goodnight noises everywhere. Goodnight old house!


Moving day! Guess who was exhausted by all the moving? And she didn't even lift a single box!


Here we are in the new place! This is Addie's favorite vantage point of the front door--she carefully watched the plumbers as they went in and out with the new water heater.


This is how I found Steve snacking on some watermelon right out of the fridge. Hey, you gotta rehydrate somehow in this heat!


Moving weekend was long and tiring...some cuddling/resting on the couch is the perfect prescription to recover!


I love my new room!!

The new neighborhood has a pool--woohoo! Grandma Silvestro came down to help us unpack and helped us try out the new cool blue water....so much fun!


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