We've been in the house for almost a week now. The mountains of packing paper and cardboard are dwindling. We are slowly but surely finding things we need: the stock pot, the telephones, the label maker! We are also finding many things we don't need ... three infant nose aspirators? Four coffee makers? Five toilet plungers? The sunroom has become the new "staging area" where we put things we don't know where to put elsewhere yet. And all the pictures yet to be hung on the walls.
We have a new phone number and super-fast internet. Phew! I can live without the TV, but that should be installed by the end of this week. Make sure you change my email address to snault4 @ hotmail . com because we had to let go of AT&T and my sbcglobal.net address.
We rely heavily on our friends, the Shoups, for meals, child care, driving tours, general information and sanity checks. Pam and Chris, if you're reading this ... THANK YOU AGAIN!!!!! We've also met some neighbors with a five-year-old grandson and nine-year-old granddaughter; new friends like a family with four young kids moving here from Minnesota just a couple blocks away; and reconnected with old friends from our SA block, the Lamberts!
School is going well for all the kids. Lucas is in a dual language kinder program that has him alternating English days with Spanish immersion days. He's saying numbers and colors in Spanish already...some other nouns too. Ethan's teacher called to say that Ethan was doing great. That he, along with the rest of the class, talk A LOT, but are learning when to be quiet. I laughed and said that Ethan was very social and may continue to talk the whole year. She assured me he was not a problem. Sarah's teacher is an avid reader and I hope she continues to nurture that in Sarah, who often reads without being told to do so. I just got a full report on what's happening in her Monster High book and I know she's got good comprehension skills. Jacob is managing well at middle school. We have a parent orientation Tuesday night (finally!) where I will get to run through his schedule and meet his teachers. He has already lost two PE shirts and a pair of shorts so we are headed to school early Monday to go through the Lost & Found. Lucky for me, the PE Lost & Found is in the boys locker room so HE will be the one that has to sort through the smelly clothes.
I'll post pictures of the interior of the house in a little bit. It still looks like Tornado Alley runs though here. But here's the exterior:
The culdesac to the south.
The culdesac to the north. It's so great that I can see the kids ride their bikes all the way up and down the street!
For our Des Moines friends ... our new street was meant to be!
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