Room to Move
Can I just say, first off, how happy I am that the only moving going on at this point is by my little children and doesn’t include any moving trucks, unloading of furniture or unpacking of boxes?
We drove in on Monday evening of last week and our girls didn’t get back in the car until Wednesday morning. It seemed safer that way – I feared a full-scale baby rebellion.
Obviously, we drove to Target. (By the way, I spent YEARS thinking, “Why is everyone so into Target? I don’t get it.” Then I had children. And I totally, totally get it.)
We stocked up on all the essentials. By which I mean diapers.
And hangers (how is it possible that you never can have enough hangers? Did we leave a trail of hangers all the way from Austin to Durham?). We had a coupon for the diapers ($2 off!), but sadly, no coupons for the hangers.
Ani seems to have embraced the extra room in our house by becoming, overnight, an extremely wiggly baby. For a baby who can’t crawl yet, she is all over the place. Diaper changes are the absolute worst, because I keep all the diapers in a basket, and she seems CONVINCED that there is something amazing hiding in that basket (it’s just diapers! I promise!)
With regular diapers, I end up with a diaper that is SUPER tight on one side and crazy loose on the other side (tell me I’m not the only one who does this). These ones? Way easier. They slip right on and then, when it’s time for a diaper change, the sides tear right off.
When Ella saw these diapers she said, “These diapers are AWESOME. Are they like underwear?” She was beside herself with joy when I let her wear one to bed (she’s toilet-trained, but I’m still too much of a wimp to let her wear underwear through the night and, yes, both my three-year-old (her birthday is today!) and my seven-month-old wear the same size of diapers. Not a leak from either of them).
We’re keeping the wiggling at bay by getting outside a lot. This neighborhood is beautiful – there’s a great little park just around the corner, and there are plenty of dogs out for walks in the evening, which makes Ella super happy. Plus, the weather isn’t quite as hot as Texas.
I love when they stand there rocking to get going when they first learn to walk.
Looking back on it, the days where they couldn't move were the easiest!! But I love that my daughter can now walk around and explore the world. It's so much fun to see her learn and grow.
My favorite stage of baby mobility is when they can sit up – it's so fun to get down on the floor & play with them, usually by handing toys back & forth.
Uh, just coming back to do the Rafflecopter part of this and noticed that there was a prompt for the comment… oops. I guess I prefer when babies are nice, still newborns. Is that awful? It's so much less stress-inducing!
I love it when they learn to run, my son was so excited and happy and still is every time he runs fast 🙂
I love the newly mobile baby. Slightly wobbly and not scaling the sofa yet. 🙂
What the heck J?!!? I'm melting with these pics of your darlings!!!!
NC is pretty. I remember when Matt interviewed there for medical school andhe came home saying "everything is sooo green." Having grown up on the east coast it never dawned on me how green everything is and how that would see so different to people from the west. Ani is getting so big. Cute girls!