My, how much life has happened since my last post! We were looking into moving closer to Hawkeye Court with the start of a new house church there. Thus we were also looking for someone to fill our place at the church house. A family of 10 needed a place to stay, and thus began the whirlwind of adventure of packing up our things in less than 2 weeks. Doesn’t sound too hard, until you add in a fussy baby (from teething and sickness), a 3-yr-old who wants desperately to play outside after a LONG winter, and a very busy husband! With the help of lots of friends (PTL for the church!), we got it all done in time! I knew only that we were going to live in the Abdo’s basement until we could find a home… but didn’t know if that would be for a week or a few months.
A few days before the move, we bought a house in the neighborhood where we were looking! It is a zero lot on Westwinds Drive that seems just perfect. It has 2 bedrooms upstairs, and then downstairs has a 2nd living room with a space to convert to a 3rd bedroom if we want in the future. The three things I am most looking forward to (that we have not yet had in our first three places) are a dishwasher, a fenced in backyard, and a deck! I am starting to get very excited!!
Tomorrow, Evie and I will begin the weaning process. We are starting her out on soy milk as she still does not tolerate cow’s milk in my diet. We have only 3 weeks and four days left until we leave the kids with Dan’s parents for our 5th year anniversary trip (to Garner!) I intended to start last week, but came down with mastitis after all of the craziness of moving. I am praying I don’t get it again during the weaning process! She is still waking at 5am for a feeding, so that will be interesting when that feeding gets dropped!
We love living with the Abdos! If we weren’t moving into such a great home, I’d just want to stay here if I could! It is great having so many arms to help hold Evie and play with Jakob.
Evie is just now getting more interested in walking while holding onto our hands. We’ll see how long it is before she wants to try to test things out on her own. She is getting her 7th and 8th teeth. She laughs a lot at her brother and when we tickle her.
Jake was sad to move from our house. He had lots of friends in the neighborhood that would daily come visit to play basketball, play on the playground, and play inside with him. However, he is having lots of fun now playing with his heroes, the Abdo boys. We know he’ll have no trouble making more friends when we move into our new place.
