The pains of moving...

This week has been weird... a good weird, but very different from our average goings on. We moved into our lovely little home on Saturday evening. We were grateful to have so many awesome helpers! By the time our help arrived we were ready with only the furniture left to be loaded into the truck. Throughout the week, we had taken over loads of everything but big furniture pieces, so the Saturday evening move went rather quickly and smoothly. Thank goodness! Anyway, the reason why I say that this has been a weird week so far is because I've been spending the mornings over at our apartment cleaning (ugh!) and then afternoons and evenings have been full with unpacking and reorganizing projects. I've been making steady progress with the unpacking, but there is still a ton to do! It's fun to be in a new house, but the work is not so fun. I don't mind the unpacking part that much... it's kind of nice to purge and start over with a vow to be a little more organized this time around. The apartment cleaning is a real pain, however. Yesterday morning when we pulled up to the gate to our old apartment, Emma threw a little fit screaming "New house now! Back new house now!" I think she thought we might have changed our minds and were going to go back to the apartment for good. How funny. Anyway, I've kept our little TV/DVD combo at the apartment with some of Emma's favorite movies so she has something to do while I clean... because the apartment is completely emptied. I've also been timing our cleaning outings so that it's during Becca's naptime (9:00-10:30). I just wrap her up and rest her in her carseat and she sleeps in a dark corner while I keep busy. It's worked out pretty well. Ben is going to be spending tonight and tomorrow repainting our bedroom back to its original white. What a pain... but that's what we get for painting it in the first place. Is this really all worth it just to get a security deposit back?

Well, to end, let me leave you with a short video of Becca rolling over! This was taken last week before she had figured out how to roll back over to her back once onto her tummy. Now she can roll both ways and is so happy to have learned a new skill. I'm so proud of little Rebecca!