Sweet little guy

Heard from Simon on Monday morning, "Mommy, when we go home to our regular house?" Despite this he is doing remarkably well with the transition.

We've moved!

After tons of anticpating and packing craziness we've finally arrived safe and sound at our new house! Simon has been very relieved to see that all his toys made it and spent his first half hour or so here walking around saying, "Look Mommy, my movies made it! Look Mommy, my people made it! Look Mama my trains made it!" I think he was just in awe of the whole transition and has handled the whole thing absolutley beautifully. He was a little edgy those first few days that he spent at Grammie and Grump's house but did very well overall there. Last night was his first night in the new house and we had set up both his crib and his bed in his new (purple!) room. He chose the big boy bed for both bed last night and nap and bed tonight. He's taken to the new bed and hasn't looked back. What a big boy. He did ask me today when we were going home...still I don't think he quite gets it...must be so confusing for the little guy, it's just amazing how well he's done.

We've been busy unpacking, which has also gone very smoothly, most of the rooms are either done or waiting on something to be done, like hanging a medicine cabinet to put stuff into it. The office/Molly's room is waiting on shelving being custom made for the room so that room is full of boxes of books, the kitchen is waiting for our china hutch which hopefully is coming tomorrow. So there's things to do, but seems we're waiting on other things to happen first. In any event, the house is lovely, almost feels like home, I'm sure it will more so when ALL the boxes are gone. The neighborhood is great, aside from the (very nice) neighbors with the cars in the backyard (hello fence). I visited the local movie store tonight since we don't have TV to zone out to yet and it was just so nice to have something like that (and ice cream, the library a candy store and a yummy pizza place) all within a couple blocks of us. It's just so different from living in OOB. Everything is just so...close.

I'll post pics of the house soon, but right now I have no idea where the camera is and not a whole lot of energy to look for it!

Springtime!

Finally!

Weekend in review...

We had a very nice weekend at home. I had to work most of the day on Saturday, but Simon and Kim went to his very first movie at the theater! They saw Horton Hears a Who and ate a big bag of popcorn and M&M's. I guess Simon got a belly ache about halfway through, but he was a trooper. He got to wear earplugs just like Grumpa, which was VERY COOL. He's been talking about his movie, "who hears a who" ever since.

The other eventful incident of the weekend happened last night at dinner. I had finished and was trying (unsuccessfully) to replace the lock on the sliding glass door in the dining room. I heard Simon talking with mama about a "big booger". She laughed and said the would worry about it after dinner. Simon proceeded to shove his entire finger up his nose and start to cry about his "bog booger". Which led to a flashlight, which led to a set of tweezers, which led to a plump raisin being plucked from the depths of my sons right nostril. Poor guy. Poor moms, it was very traumatic. Although he got over it quickly and was excited to tell everyone that he shoved a raisin up his nose at dinner! I doubt he'll do that again.

One track mind....

We've been home for a few hours now, had dinner, settling in for the night. I would love to spend some QT with the little guy, but all he seems to want to do tonight is play hockey, serious hockey, like throw your entire body into the door to make the bang noise kind of hockey. Mommy just doesn't have it in her tonight for full contact sports, where's Grumpa when you need him? So I went through my list of things we could do instead, build a block tower, read some books, snuggle on the couch with a TV show...no no no....finally as a last resort I turned to, "I could bring your giraffe down from upstairs and you could ride it for a little while." His reply, "YEAH!!! Mommy, then I can be the Zamboni". Boy oh boy.

Just Jack

I just found out from Simon's donor brother Jack's mom that Jack has a blog too written by his grandpa! You can just click on the link to the side to check out this little cutie! Simon has two (wonderful, adorable) donor siblings that we are in contact with. Jack is 18 months and he and his family live in a nice toasty warm southern state...lucky Jack! Simon loves to carry Jack's valentine's day picture around the house and give him kisses he calls him, "donor bruddah Zack"...close enough for a two year old.

REWARD!!!

Homemade waffles with apple pie jam for anyone who returns my sweet boy and takes this little crab apple away! Simon has been so...OFF this week. I don't know what it is exactly, but he has just goes from being this fun loving little guy into a holy terror. He's not sleeping well, maybe 8-10 hours at night, but not in any predictable order and usually not entirely in his own bed. His naps last anywhere from 0 to 45 minutes, a far cry from his 2 hour naps normally. Just not sure what's up with him. My friend Kate says that his brain or his body must be in transition. I sure hope it ends soon, I hate transition!