The New Place

We're settling nicely into the new place, I'm happy to say. Here are some pics from the move and the first week in the apartment. As my mom likes to say, she always feels better about her kids when she has a "visual image" of where they are living. So here ya go, Mom!

The main living area is a living/dining room with the kitchen in the corner. Back door is behind me in this shot. Master bed and bath to the right (through the door that is cut off) and the hall to the other two bedrooms and other bath is to the left. I took this pic the day we went to get our keys, Thursday afternoon before we moved in on Saturday.



Here's what it looked like by Saturday afternoon:



Here's the empty living room, before we moved in all our stuff. I'm standing in the hall that goes to the kids' wing of the apartment.


Here's the playroom on move-in day:


I realize as I'm posting this that I've not yet taken pictures of the master bedroom or of the kids' bedroom. (We decided to keep them sleeping in the same room, since that's been working out so well, and devote the third bedroom to a play room.) Here's the playroom later on in the week after much organizing and unpacking:


I've long wanted to set up a little "book nook" for the kids, and I was happy to be able to work that into the play room. It's just a corner filled with big pillows, a big stuffed cube, and the enormous floppy stuffed dog (who might as well be a rug). It's the kind of place I would have made for myself when I was a kid. BJ took to it immediately.

The pile of boxes after days of unpacking:



One of the many neat things about the new place: closets! That are actually functional! With doors that close and useable space and everything!!! (No, I wasn't becoming disenchanted with the quirks of living in a house built in 1926... why do you ask?) Naturally, BB thought they were for hiding inside.

She'd get in there and giggle and call for me to come find her, again and again. Very cute. These pics were taken on her birthday.


More pics to come -- lots of posts I could make about the last 10 days, but I'm beat (and I still have to get to all those emails...) so stay tuned in the coming days for more fun stuff about the new apartment!