We're moving

We are moving in two days! I haven't blogged about it - but here's a synopsis. Our current place is a but too big to manage - the rent and just the house work. With both of us working full time (Dan full time PhD AND parent), the apartment just looks like a train wreck all the time. More, the rent is climbing every year, but nothing is improved - no modernizations and really minimal upkeep by the landlord. Emergencies only it seems. So we figured we should take the opportunity to move into a place easier to manage with our current schedules, a bit less expensive, and the big plus, closer to my work, our church, friends, and the city's transportation system (Hyde Park is a closed-off community it seems). We are excited about moving to the northside - to the Ravenswood neighborhood. It's not too north, not too west, still has tall trees and is still diverse, especially with age.

We will miss Hyde Park. It is where we met, fell in love, lived for forever it seems, had Christian, etc. It's the place that's made us in a way.

Anyway, we really won't know what we'll miss the most until we've been gone awhile. I won't miss A LOT but I won't dwell on those things right now.

I hope that Christian adjusts well. He's very sensitive to his surroundings and has the place all checked out. I hope that his exploratory nature will suppress the crazy where am I feeling.

Catch up

It's been over a month! So sorry I've been delinquent. So much has happened but nothing has happened. How to remember the moments?

Christian is a darling. He's certainly a little personality. I fall deeper in love with him daily it seems, which makes it harder and harder to go to work. I try not to think about having only 17 more years before he's out of my hands...I know - silliness! But seriously, if this year has flown by what's to change about the future ones?

He loves the outdoors and other kids. He would rather be at the play ground adjacent to our apartment building than anywhere else. He's into the sand box now. He doesn't play with the other kids but watches how they play. He usually grabs onto one of the cars and then holds it while he walks around.

One thing we are focusing on now is eating. He prefers not to eat the food we provide sometimes. He is a slow eater but also willful in that he refuses even when hungry! Because he knows we have other things that he likes. Stinker! But we tell him our will is stronger than his - at least for now:)

Discipline is still a subject to study. We are adopting some of the SuperNanny techniques - looking him in the eye, telling him what the expectations are, trying to be consistent.

I wish I had a cute story to tell - maybe if one comes to mind in the next few moments...

Nope! Until next time...