Yes, we moved again, from the hotel to a duplex, which is bigger than the hotel (though still only about half the size of our normal house), and major bonus: We are back on the school's bus line!! So I don't have to drive a half hour to drop off and pick up kids twice a day! Hurray!
So, anyways, I know what you're waiting for:
This is how we entertained ourselves while we were still in the hotel. In her defense, there was nothing better for her to climb on.
Tess napping like "Hansel and Gretel" (??? Don't ask me, that's what she said!)
Liv's first "bubble bath". Yum! (We actually just used too much soap, but she loved it!)
Tess is having the hardest time not having any dress up clothes. So, here she is dressing up in Liv's 6-9 month outfit that she had just finished stripping off of Livvy. Note the bare thigh in the background!
Tiny baby Livvy.
Tess and Liv thought this would be the perfect gate for the top of the stairs.
Nana and Papa's Christmas gift finally got put together. (And for future reference, when the instruction manual says it strongly recommends having two adults for the completion of a toy, it would probably be in everyone's best interest to heed that warning!!) Liv loves it, as do all the other girls, but the other girls are a little wild on it, and I usually end up referreeing instead of being able to snap cute pics like this one.
Luckily for Tess, Auntie NeeNee came to her rescue and sent a big box of Haven's hand-me-downs to replace some of the things Tess lost when the house flooded. And for those who may not know, Haven is Tess' cousin who is actually 4 months younger than her and about two sizes bigger than her. Tess thought it was a dress up box.
Livvy and Tess in their "dog pound" (once again, I don't make this stuff up, I just repeat it)
And for anyone who has spoken to me in the past couple days I'm sure you heard about the missing blankie. Well, to my immense and overwhelming relief it has been returned to us, safe and sound.And for anyone wondering I've got a few updated pictures on the progress of the house:
The garage.
The broken furnace that caused this whole mess to begin with.
The beams falling off the ceiling.
The plastic wall.
Matt and I found this sight very amusing. It was left like this for like 3 days. It looked to us like the landlord got tired of paying other people to demolish and decided to just take a sledge hammer and go at the kitchen. Notice the dangling stove vent thing.We keep going in and taking pictures thinking that they have got to be done with the demolition, but everytime I go back they have ripped out more stuff. I spoke to the landlord a couple days ago, and he says he hopes he can have us back in by the middle of March. So, we wait and see.
One last picture. I'm not sure when this was taken, but it was on my memory card this morning and I thought it was too cute not to share:
Edited to add... It was pointed out to me that I didn't have any pictures at all of Becca and Tia up, so I went and snapped one of them doing what they do best. I don't know if it's the close quarters or their ages, or what, but:
I don't know what they were fighting over. I try not to know if I can possibly ignore them, but it resulted in both of them crying in the end. I think it's telling that it looks like Becca paused to smile for the camera in the middle of trying to kill her sister. Now you know why there aren't too many pictures of the two of them.
