Changes

Hi!!!

Been ages, we know.

See...I've been busy doing this:

While Piper did this:

and this:

The house is gone and after a much rushed and stressful move we have settled (kinda).

The move was made much easier by family, dear friends and a lot of hired help.

Piper arrived in her new room to a gift from the previous occupants.

Thank you so much!

Aunt Amy sent some Hello Kitty Sunglasses

And Piper has been exploring the grass

and Mom's shoes

Mimi and Bapa were a huge part of the help in this transition.

And what is this you may ask?

A Mother's desperation.

The room while lovely, is quite bright and since the move Piper has started getting up at 6am (better than the 5:30am she did at first!)

She's getting used to different stairs.

And has found my bendis

Quite honestly this has been rough on her.

For close to a week she sobbed and screamed to "go home" but she now calls the new place "me house" and seems to be getting there.

If only the sleep schedule would return.

Up for the day at 4am this morning.

4am.

I wrote too soon last night in my first draft of this post.

Good thing she's cute!

Now if she would only stop rolling her eyes at me...

Here's Piper helping us map out the new house

And did we mention there is a trampoline at the new place?

She's the laziest trampoliner I've ever seen.

She wants us to bounce her, and thats not safe - so we've had a lot of fights over this thing.

But we're hanging in there.

Easter, Among other big events in our lives...

We said goodbye to our sweet Ansel this last week.

Almost 15 years he shared his life with us, and we feel grateful for the time we had.

He will be missed.

Piper has yet to ask about him, she's so in the moment I don't think she's noticed.

Well, that and all the other things going on around here...

School.

Don't let the face fool you...

she LOVES it.

Not a single tear shed - she is into it.

"Wicky's House, or Wicky's School"

If I so much as mention it in the morning, she's ready to go. Its a great motivator to get her dressed.

Here's hoping that kind of school excitement sticks!

Oh ya, and then there is this...

Thats right, after a very long wait we are closer than ever to our dreams...

Closing is the 25th.

yes.

That is right.

this month.

well, if all goes well. As we ll know, its not over till its over.

We just had the inspection and unless things go terribly awry we will be moving the house and studio into storage and renting for awhile while we build again. 

feewww..

but until then we carry on...

Gathering everything into one place is the big thing to do.

Have to get her focused on that with a box this next week.

 Imogine has decided to be a little more affectionate in Ansel's absence.

Easter was lovely.

After an egg hunt at home we went to Mimi and Bapa's for a yummy dinner.

 Piper and candy don't mix so well... hello freak out. 

And not the funny kind, the screaming kind.

whoa.

 She wanted to open each one and eat the candy every time.

ya...gonna have to work on that.

Save it for later?

Pa-sha!

 

 About the only things Piper is totally into these days is school and being outside playing with water.

oh...and being naked.

Tonight I had one of those classic moments I hope to never forget. The kind you can't stop to photograph or it will be lost forever and never come back. 

Best to soak it up and write it down rather than miss it completely.

Josh was at jujitsu and Piper and I were at the end of her tub time. I'm on our bed looking at the mountain, just loving the view and I said, 

"Piper, do you want to come up and watch the mountain with me? "

no.

Surprise, surprise.

She wiggles off the bed nude as can be and runs to the window, I can see this vast expanse of mountain with my little girl standing in front of it. 

Red curls glowing in the late afternoon light.

She beings to sing.

I don't know what she was singing, just tones and nonsense, she's singing to the mountain. 

'She was born here,' I think.

In this room.

In front of those mountains.

Just as I'm having my moment she runs over to Josh's closet and pulls out his large Mexican sun hat. She puts it on, and starts dancing. 

Dancing and singing she's lost in the joy of her Daddy's oversized hat.

I was absorbed in laugher at this classic toddler moment.

You can't photograph that.

You have to be with that.