Houston

Well, we left for Houston on Saturday, the 24th. We had a full week - packers at the house for four days, and getting everything in order for our move. Everything was out of the house by Friday evening, so we slept on the floor on Friday night (except Owen slept in the travel crib/pack & play). Aunt Karen came out to have a slumber party with us and to see us off in the morning. It was a hard week for Mom - the last time to do all those routine things. It was a sad last pickup from school. We miss everybody already! And of course, it was hard to say bye to Aunt Karen on Sat morning. We were in the car for 15 hours on Saturday (we stayed in Chattanooga) and 14 hours on Sunday. Natalie and Owen were real troopers! We were all very excited to arrive in Houston and be done with our road trip. Now we are in the corporate apartment, waiting to close on our new house. Apartment living with two kids is challenging - last week we had cabin fever. Natalie tried to keep herself entertained and Owen was sick with rotovirus all week - very fun for Mom (lots of puke and nasty diapers), but he is better now and he and Natalie started at their new preschool today. They seemed to like it when we visited last week. We tried to get them out of the house (apt) when we could last week. We made a trip to our new neighborhood playground (and couldn't get them to leave!), and we drove by the new house almost everyday. We went out for Mexican (we've missed good mexican food!) on Saturday night, and we went to a fun children's festival yesterday. We saw Dora, and danced with her, and had some fun food, and Natalie went in a princess castle play area that she was very excited about. So we are settling in, and ready to get into the new house!