Adam:
spent most of March doing all the physical work of packing and
unpacking. We closed on our new house the 14th and officially moved in
the 24th. He was a total super husband especially because he did move in
day with Eli and without me (not that I would’ve been able to help
much). His wonderful parents were great enough to come and help for move
in day then stayed for about a week after. I seriously don’t know how
we would’ve done it without them.
Ashley: I
tried to help in other ways since I couldn’t do a lot of the physical
parts of moving. So I was in charge of keeping track of all paperwork
and utilities transfers. Unexpectedly early in the month, my dear great
aunt Susie passed away from a sudden heart attack. My sisters and I were
especially close to her and although she wasn’t exactly young, she
didn’t have prior medical issues to make her death less of a shock. The
funeral happened to be set on the same day as our move day so we made
plans for me to go without Adam and Eli to Washington for the weekend. I
drove with my aunt who lives near us and then stayed with my sister
Jessica and her new husband. I missed Adam and Eli and definitely felt
weird about not being apart of the big move but it was so nice to be
with family. The memorial itself was not as sad as I thought as everyone
shared their favorite memories of Susie. She was definitely an amazing
lady. We didn’t stay long so I was back in Idaho by Monday. The rest of
the week was spent unpacking and setting up cleaning of our old place.
We were so blessed with the service of ladies in our old ward (church
congregation) who basically did all the cleaning with minimal help from
me. So by the close of March, we were no longer renters!
Eli: He actually did pretty good with all of the transition of this month. He got a little confused as pictures disappeared off of our walls and things started looking sparser. He loved the new house and enjoyed trying to test boundaries of what he could get into as we tried to settle in. He only had one instance the first night where he woke up in the middle of the night asking for his old room. He has loved having more room to roam and spreading his toys across every square foot we have haha. As for development, he is still super chatty and loves to learn new things. He now knows how to count to ten and can identify some of the numbers on sight. He finally understands bargaining which has been super nice for us as parents haha. He also is obsessed with friends. He constantly asks to have friends over or to go out and see friends. He’s definitely a little social butterfly 😊
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| at the aquarium with cousins; for some reason, he kept wanting me to do this to his face haha; leading me around the house with his little cart; playing with toys I brought home from WA |