We're here to stay!

In the 3 1/2 years we've been married we've had 4 homes, 5 depending how you count them.

-2 months right after we got married in my apartment waiting for his roommates to move out of his condo

-7 months in Bert's condo

-1 year two months house sitting for my mom while she was on a mission

-1 year seven months living in Mom's basement after she got home so I could stay home with Emma and Bert could finish school

And finally we have our own place again and we are not leaving for 5 years!

I'm a terrible photographer but here are a couple shots of our living room, not big, but comfortable.

Dining


For a small kitchen there is a surprising amount of cabinet space


Big master suite. The picture doesn't do it justice


Bad picture of Emma's room. It's in sorry need of some decorating.

And Kaylie's room


In a couple weeks we start painting and the place will really look like home!

Changes for Emma

We moved last weekend (pictures of the new place to follow... eventually, previews below). Now I get to break Emma of all the bad habits I let her pick up while I was busy packing and cleaning for the last few weeks. One of which is a lot of TV and movies which kept her out of my hair. The new favorite is Finding Nemo, I hear her quoting from it on occasion.

One good thing in her life this week. A big girl bed! With the move to the new place Kaylie is finally out of my room and into the crib. Emma got bumped to a bed which she loves. She has actually asked to go to bed at night! I snuck in a couple days ago and took this picture during her nap. I think she had wandered around for a little while before laying down to go to sleep, but at least she slept!

Halloween

Halloween was a little chaotic this year. We spent all day moving to our new house and rushed back to Grandma's that night to take Emma trick-or-treating. Here's Bert with the kids.


Emma loved saying "twick-or-tweet" and getting candy in return.


And she loved being a bumble bee

Pumpkin Patch

Last week Emma's playgroup went to the pumpkin patch. Emma was so obsessed with "driving" the tractors that she had no interest in playing with the other kids and even missed the real tractor ride! She insisted on sitting on every single one of the 12 or so tractors they had sitting out. I got some pictures of just a few.

Who's in charge?

Emma thinks she is in charge. A couple of weeks ago she was having a particularly bad day which had resulted in several time outs. That night she was so fed up with me while I was changing her that she started yelling, "No touch, no touch! 1, 2, 3 Time Out! Time out!" Perhaps annoyed that I didn't go to time out, the next day she tried to put Kaylie in time out for kicking.


Yesterday we were at a doctor's appointment. As he looked in Kaylie's ears, Emma looks at the doctor and yells, "no touch ears! No touch ears!" She's gotten a little protective of her little sister. She'll also defend her (and me) from the kids at play group.


And what made me laugh today was the declaration from Emma, "Mommy, I can't fly." This after watching Dinosaur Train where the kid dinos were discussing who could and couldn't fly.