There were kid friendly activities at Starfest, which was nice. But I wish they were all grouped in the same room all of the time so you always had a place your kid could go in between meals and snacks, ect. since as a parent you kind of have to plan around those kinds of things. It will be fun to go back each year, if the timing works out okay. The night we got back, we climbed out of the car with all of our bags after a ten hour drive at 1:00 in the morning, to find the locks to our apartment had been changed in our absence. Colin immediately crumpled up the notice posted on our door, and I think he would have broken a window open with the baseball bat he keeps in the trunk if I hadn't called the emergency on-call number and told them they needed to bring us a key. That may have been the most annoying thing that has ever happened to me. But the next day we bought a house!
Yes, we officially own a house!!
However, there is a lot of work and cleaning to do, Colin has been sick, and we work opposite schedules, so the official move in date is still yet to be determined. We bought a huge 2300 sq foot home built in the late 1800s that has been converted into a duplex. Everything has been redone in the last ten years, roof, electrical, heat and ac, water heater, plumbing, siding, it was remodeled to the studs, so it looks like its maybe ten or twenty years old. There is a unit downstairs that my mother/part-time babysitter will be living in with my brother William, and we will be living in the upstairs unit. More pictures to come soon, after we have finally finished moving in. There are a lot of bright colors, and sparkly chandeliers, which after living in this white apartment for the last couple of years, will be a welcome change. The downstairs unit will require much more work, as it was left in a certain state of filth and disrepair, so we will move in first so we can have more time to work on my mother's unit. She will move in a few weeks later. There are only two bedrooms in our upstairs unit, so it will be a little bit of a downsize for us in the short term, but there is enough room in the attic for a couple more bedrooms and maybe another 900 square feet or so if we wish to finish it, which I think we probably will so Colin can still have some "man space".The plan is to live there for five years or so, while we save for a house with a larger yard, in a better school district for Finnigan to live in during high school after he is done with Montessori. I got him on the waiting list for Cowles as soon as he turned one, which is the soonest they will except applications, so I am crossing my fingers he gets in there for pre-school through 8th grade!! =)
I am feeling very, very blessed. I have this husband who is miles above me, whom I love so, so much that sometimes it hurts, and a baby who is so fat, and cute, and cuddly, and funny and smart that it almost always hurts. I am could never have imagine life being this great, and we are only getting started!
Finnigan turns 14 months old tommorrow. Man, how the time flies! We went to the park and the lake today after dropping daddy off at work. I had ahold of his hand luckily, or he would have ran right into the lake trying to get after his "bir-rrrries," the geese that were in the lake. My kid loves birds, isn't that ironic? It was his first time on the swing, and he loved the wind in his face and hair, he wasn't impressed when mommy decided it was time to leave.
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| (These pictures are not from today, but a recent trip out for lunch). |
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