Moving in and Moving up!!

Yes, we are getting moved in. It is a TON of work. I can't believe we had all this stuff in our apartment. Moving from our apartment was like the the loaves and fishes. There was more, and more and more. And just when we thought we had the last car load done, there was somehow enough to fill one more car load. But now that we are completely out of our apartment, we have begun the process of putting all that stuff away. It is fun to have ample storage and places for everything. Not only that, we have a basement and a garage!! Now we just have to be careful not to fill it all up with stuff we don't need. I'm just happy not to have the bikes in and the piano out of the bedrooms. When we finally get everything put away, we will post pictures of our new home. The added bonus to moving and trying to get everything put away is that I have been climbing up and down two flights of stairs fifty times a day. Every night my legs are dead and my "stair climbing" muscles are stiff. I guess it will get me in shape for hiking mountains when we come visit.

In addition to our wonderful new house, we are learning that we have moved into a great neighborhood as well. It may not sound like a big deal, but this neighborhood allows fenced yards and has sidewalks on both sides of the street, a rarity in this area. I can send Canon out back, or if he wants to ride his tricycle he can ride on the sidewalk rather than the street. We've also been told that we need to stock up on Halloween candy. Apparently this is the neighborhood that everyone brings their kids to for Trick-or-Treating. Probably because there are a zillion kids in this neighborhood. We met many of our new neighbors and have one family from the ward that lives just a few houses away.

Now for the kid update. Canon loves his new house. It has a loft that looks over into the family room that he likes to pretend is his tree house or his pirate ship or whatever else fits his imagination for the day. Last night he was a dog and was crawling everywhere. Since dogs don't sleep in beds, but in dog houses, the picture of Canon above, is of him sleeping in his make shift dog house last night. I didn't know if he would really last there all night, but he did. We'll have to see if he does that again. Wouldn't it be great just to be able to sleep anyway. Even all night on the floor! Savana is still just our sitting princess. She loves to sit on the Winnie the Pooh car and push all the buttons and "dance" to the music. She has figured out how to go backwards a little, but she is really just happy sitting there. She is getting fast at crawling and has started to stand up more finally. But her balance is truly that of a 6 month old baby standing on your lap. She actually took walking steps while she was holding my fingers today for the first time. Usually when she stands with her feet planted in one spot, as if she had no idea that they were supposed to move and walk. She does love wearing her shoes though. In the morning when I get her dressed she always grabs her little leather shoes and hands them to me so I can put them on her feet. What a funny baby. It will be interesting to see how long it takes her to walk on her own.