As mentioned for the month of August, the month of September was another crazy month as we sold our home and moved into a temporary apartment. However we were still able to have fun and document some things we did.
Kayley's teacher is great about sending me pics of her throughout the day from school. Here she is playing with one of her friends Ryleigh. Ryleigh was in Kayley's kindergarten class last year and she was excited Ryleigh was in her 1st grade class again.
Cora's school had their first field trip to the zoo this year. Usually they go to a pumpkin patch but I think everyone was more excited to get to go to the zoo this year. I got to chaperone the field trip and Cora was so excited!
Each class kind of went their own route throughout the zoo so I got to see names with faces on who Cora plays with during the day. She has some great friends in her class and she is a great friend to all of them. This top left picture is of a kangaroo at the zoo. The kangaroos literally run throughout the park, it's crazy. This particular one was a Momma and was carrying it's Joey kangaroo in it's pouch. She decided to park right on the pathway we were supposed to walk on. We had to wait until the Momma left because we knew we weren't going to disturb a Momma and her baby!
At the end, everyone ended up meeting at the Polar Bear Exhibit, probably because it was cooler in there...it was a hot day! The kids loved taking turns sitting right in front of Nakita and her "show." She runs the same course in the water and puts her huge paws on the glass. It was a great field trip and Cora had a blast being able to ride the bus and having Mommy come with her.
I also hit the halfway mark in my pregnancy and made it to 20 weeks. At this point I was feeling pretty good. I still get my daily headaches but thank goodness for Excedrin Tension Headache. Without that medicine, I would be in intense pain all the time with headaches.
We had our ultrasound and made it through it without finding out the gender of the baby. I think if we weren't in the middle of a move, I would be dying to find out, but since we are a little bit occupied, keeping this baby a surprise is a piece of cake!
Here's my cute Rex just being cute. I think this day we were cleaning out the garage and he just stopped and posed for the camera. The kids have been great troopers through the whole move. We have been thinning out a lot of items and getting rid of a lot of toys and other items. We put about 75% of our stuff into a storage pod and left the rest out to go to our apartment.
The big day finally came September 20th. We closed and the buyers closed on our house. We moved into our apartment that night with the help of family. It was rather bittersweet leaving our home of 5 years now. However, we knew we were eventually going to be moving into a larger home so it was also exciting. The girls walked around the whole house taking pictures of it so they could remember the house. Everyday after picking them up from school, we drive by it and they kept saying, "There's our old house, I want to shrink it and put it in my pocket!" Apartment living is interesting, especially with three kids. Things I took for granted were being able to take groceries in and out of the house easily, having access to things in the garage (stroller, shop-vac, etc), being able to transfer Rex to his bed because he fell asleep on the way home, etc. All these things made it a little crazy but we are managing!
This was probably the hardest part of our house to leave...the girls room. When we first moved in, I absolutely fell in love with their room. I mean look at it, who wouldn't? Oh that's right, our buyers didn't! She wanted me to paint over it! The part that was even worse was the color she picked was the color of masking tape, very dull. The girls took tons of pictures of their room also because they were sad to paint over it as well. Needless to say, I don't think I'll ever be able to recreate this!
While I was unpacking the apartment I came across this box that Kayley had marked on. It says, "Super Mom"...made my day as I've felt very guilty being so occupied with the move and painting and packing that I've felt like I've neglected my kids for the past 2 months. I just love her!
Later in the month we said goodbye to the Sanders family. They moved from Sikeston to Utah and came through and stayed with family along their trek out west. My girls love the Sanders, especially Caroline and Julia! They look up to them like crazy and love to play with them. It was bittersweet for all of us as we knew the move would be good for them, but of course hate they will be so far away now!
More posing with cousins. Always have to have a silly faced picture! (bottom left)
Nick was on call that day so he had a crazy call day and missed seeing them off, but we were able to visit with them the night before and Nick said his goodbyes then.
Other pictures from this month:
Then the next to last day of the month, Nick needed to go to the Apple store for something at the Plaza. Afterwards we went to the fountains, which they had just dyed all the water pink in preparation for October being Breast Cancer awareness month. The kids loved seeing the pink water. They also played on the exercise equipment that was along the trail.
