The New Home

I was happy to finally see our new home.  I liked it but decided I wanted to do some cleaning before we brought everything in.  So much easier cleaning an empty house.  :)  So we threw stuff in the garage, ran to Walmart for some cleaning supplies,

 and got a hotel for that night.

We were so tired, and ended up waking up at like 11:05.  Checkout time was at 11, so we scrambled around getting ready to leave while Neely checked out the view.

Then we spent the next couple of days cleaning.

 

...and eating out.  Or at least takeout, which we had to manage to eat with no dining table.  :)

The girls helped clean some of the time, and played the rest. 

Neely was hiding there.

Cason helped a little, but mostly scooted around the house and wrote letters to Kayson.

Then we got to the fun part, putting everything where we want it.

The girls finally got their bunkbed put together.  They had it for about 2 days, and used it as a fort.

Then Paige decided she was too nervous to sleep up there, so we turned it into two twins. 

Can't say I was disappointed.  It made me nervous anyway, and I had to keep the door shut all day so Neely couldn't sneak in there to climb.

Speaking of the girls' room, Paige's old piggy bank broke a while ago, and we suddenly found the perfect replacement for her at Target.  It goes well with her new bedding, plus a unicorn is perfect for her.

That girl wrote me the cutest note one day and slipped it to me before running off, embarrassed.

We had a good, busy weekend, and finished off by eating out together one last time before Jess had to go back to work in the morning.  Some of his coworkers took him to La Luna on one of his trips here before.  So he took us to try it.

I wasn't sure how Mexican food would be here, and it WAS different from in AZ, but it was actually pretty good.

Jess loves them for featuring a bison in a sombrero.

Jess started the new job in the morning, and he likes it. 

We had gotten used to having him working from home, so we're not huge fans of it, but he can actually be productive again.

We entertained ourselves at home some...

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...and also took some drives, like to get Gia a bath.  We had take her to a groomer because it was way too cold to try and bathe her ourselves.  The kids were excited to get her back.

She was pretty cute, playing with all the little dogs at the groomers, but she was happy to see us too I think.

We didn't have a fridge the first week, so we ate out constantly, which got really gross.  But it was fun seeing Jess during his break.  I love Neely's face in this one from one of the days we were waiting outside his work.

During this same wait, Paige drew a bowl of lemons.  I love it.

Then we had a couple of harder days, with people getting sick.   It wasn't that bad though, and it gave us an excuse to be lazy and cuddly.

Hot Cocoa in July

The floors make such a difference.

I've been loving this monsoon season, lots of actual rain instead of just hot muggy days.  We babysat Lily and Aivree for a bit Saturday afternoon, and it was really rainy.  

They loved it.  It was even pretty cool out, so they came in and asked me to make some hot cocoa.  Ha.  So I obliged.

They also caught the snails that came out.

Neely chose her outfit that day.  I can usually dress her in whatever I want her to wear, but that day I put a red tshirt dress on her.  She pulled my hand and led me back to her closet, and stood on her tiptoes, reaching up to the dresses and trying to jump.  So I picked her up and she grabbed the one she wanted, that black, white, and pink polkadotted dress from Grama.

Well once again I missed a day or two and now I'm overwhelmed and can't decide what to (and what not to) blog about.

Neely's still scooting around, starting to get a little bit of rug burn on her chubby knees. She's starting to get up on her knees and rock back and forth more often too.
For a minute I thought she'd do a downward dog.
Like Paige liked to do as a baby.
Neely's also been bonding with Gia lately. Gia licks her hand or feet and makes her laugh.
Paige has been dramatic the last few days.

The other night she was mad at us, and ended up being sent to her room for yelling at us. She was crying loudly in there so we could hear. After we didn't come in and show our sympathy she opened the door and wailed "How could you guys say that to me?! You always love me!!"

Then last night we were telling her she had to eat her dinner and she said "You guys make me mad ONCE a DAY!"

But overall we've had nice days. Yesterday was rainy. We went outside for a short while in the afternoon.
I decided to move in to start dinner, when it really started raining and started to get chilly. So the older two bundled themselves up and wanted to stay out in the rain. A few minutes later I heard thunder, a blood curdling scream and Cason crying "I want my mommy" as he ran in the house. I picked him up and it took him a minute to calm down. He said "The punder scared me." So I took him to the couch and set him up to watch his favorite movie, The Iron Giant.

He was so cute on the couch, smiling while he watched the movie, with tears drying on his cheeks, wearing Paige's purple Tinkerbell sweatshirt, her boots, and his Toy Story swim trunks. He loves that movie so much.

He made me draw him a robot yesterday. I didn't realize it was supposed to be any certain robot, the iron giant specifically, until he told me to add the fire to his feet and "the little boy and his mama". But he didn't seem to notice the robot looks nothing like the robot from the movie. He carries it around the house, telling me he's "never gonna lost it."
In the movie the Iron Giant saved the day and afterwards Cason said "the robot died, but he save his friends". His heart is quite good.