As promised a more timely blog post.
The move was very successful on Sunday to say the least. Mostly thanks to our families and of course Kate (Kate's Butt---reason coming soon) and Luke.
We weren't going to let a pesky 11 inches of snow stop us from moving! We got an early start and we sure needed it. You would think moving out of a condo would be simple as one should not have much stuff...however my genetics and 4 years of crap collecting left us with over 50 boxes, and way too much furniture.
I had 10 boxes marked Ava's clothes too small....hmmm perhaps Ava has a shopping problem.
The first truck was loading in next to record time, despite Brett's Anal retentiveness ( I am pretty sure I heard "TV GOES LAST!" 15 times...yes Brett we hear you...and what's that? we need a car seat for the xbox...lol)...and we were off the 15 min trip to the new house.
Upon arrival Brett had a great plan of "inside" people and "outside people"-defined as inside people will stay inside and meet outside people at the door to collect boxes and move to appropriate sharpie indicated places. Well this system worked for around 10 mins, and we decided to change it up....perhaps we shouldn't have. As poor Kate was coming in with a heavy box larger than her she tumbled down (the basement tile is apparently very slippery with snow on it---*rug purchased*) and needless to say I need to also thank Kate's butt for assisting.
Well it's now night 4 in the house and we are slowly unpacking. Poor Ava is not adjusting to sleeping well in her new room, so I have been camping in there on the floor to assist in the adjustment, basically she would just scream as loud as she could and cry the saddest tears anytime we laid her in the crib. So I literally tried every 15 mins from 9pm to 4am and finally I think due to pure exhaustion she would stay asleep in the crib from 4-7am. I am sure the different sounds (or lack there of) have something to do with it. Her trusty sleep sheep sound machine doesn't seem to make a difference.Same crib, same room wall color, what gives?
We did install her window coverings and hang her artwork on the walls yesterday and something worked because last night we will chalk up as a success as she only got up once screaming for me and was back sleeping in her crib within 45 mins, whew! Lets shoot for another good one!
Life is just full of adjustments and its good she go through this.
But man thank god for wine.
