Busy Week

Dave and I were just thinking about we were doing last week at this time. We were knee deep into our move, and had just set up the kids beds for our first night in our new home. Our settlements went very nicely. Our move; thanks to Grandma, Uncle Chris, Ken, Amanda, Volunteers Sean And Junior went very, very smoothly. We did move in cold rainy weather which made things harder, but it did all get done! We learned it's hard to move with Jenna around, Uncle Chris sure knows how to pack a moving van, we have a lot of stuff, and how awesome it was to be connected with 2 very nice men who volunteered hours of their time to help with all the heavy lifting. We have a lot of little projects here we want to take care of, hanging curtains, painting and so on. Dave and I are both task masters and what to do everything right away. We've already replaced the entire upstairs and family room carpets and even had our new kitchen floor put in yesterday. I'm sure we will get to all our projects sooner rather than later. The kids have taken fine to the new house. I am so happy that Amanda could come spend the first two nights with the older girls. The girls had their very first sleep over in their new home. That was good for them. Jenna has been the most affected. She came with me to clean our old house last Saturday and ran from room to room saying "all gone". She came with me because I couldn't get her to nap here in her new room. I put her in her crib as I always do a naptime and she climbed right on out and stood at the top of the steps and yelled "Mama!". You could say sleep is still an issue one week later. I now have to rock Jenna to sleep. She will point to the rocker so that I will rock her instead of just laying her down as we have done for a long time now. With less sleep Jenna is an even bigger handful, following me around cleaning, climbing, rearranging and insists on taking her clothes off and running around in the buff, and is not to happy about our daily driving to schools - she would rather be playing with the steering wheel and all the buttons on the dash. The morning commute for us has changed from what I thought it would be at the start of the week. I cannot wait here for Andrew to be picked up or I will miss getting both girls to school on time, so I am driving all 3 kids to their 3 schools every morning. Lots of driving. Maybe I should have sent Amelia to her new school on the bus... Hmmm.. Of note... Amelia came home with her report card today... All "O's". That's my girl! - Outstanding!!! Jenna had her 2 yr appt on Tuesday and weighed in at 26lbs . She's tall and lean like me (so the doctor says!!!)...He...he... Like me... :)) Jenna is very leary of the doctor - won't let me go and won't let the nurse weigh her or come close. The nurse has to leave the room so I can weigh her privately. All else checked out great though. Jenna also started her second class Wednesday morning.."Funfit" aka "Hello School". As I mentioned......we've been busy this week!