We recently found an opportunity to move into a new place. All we knew for sure was that it had an extra bedroom, and the kitchen and bathroom couldn't possibly be any smaller than what we had been in for the past year and a half. Lisa had been packing everything we owned into boxes for a week and on the day of the move it took only an hour and a half to get everything out of our old place and into the new one. And it is Huge!
We are very happy to have a place that finally feels like a home for our family to be in. We've become used to having our family stuffed into a dorm room sized place, but now even as we have all our stuff spread out in boxes on the floor we still feel like we have tons of room to move around.
Lisa and Claire have been making good use of our little slab of cement that serves as a patio in our back yard. It is completely filled with chalk drawings. Here are a few pictures of the kids enjoying the new family room.
Todd and Claire are growing and learning new things. Today Claire lead us in a dance party on the rug as we listened to InsideOut.
Our doctor recommended that we take Todd to a specialist because of the asymmetry of his skull and because he was worried about a trend in Todds growth. He started out pretty average for height and head circumference and a little skinny. Over the next few weeks he went to nearly off the charts for head circumference, 85th percentile for height and 25th percentile for weight. He's our little lollipop.
The specialist ended up measuring Todd's head and didn't see any problems with the trend, except that maybe someone had measured incorrectly, making the trend look worse. She then measured everybody in the family to compare. Claire's head is almost as large as Lisa's already! We've heard that your head reaches full size early, but it was a surprise to see just how close Claire is already.
We are going to have Todd scanned to make sure that his skull still has room to grow and to see if we need to give him a helmet to straighten him out.
