Settling In, a Weekend of Fun, and Coby's Favorites

Settling In...
It has been just over a week now since we closed on the new house. We absolutely love it! It feels SOOOOOO big after spending the past two+ months in an apartment. We love having space and having all of our things in one place again. After a week, all except for the last few things in our bedroom have been unpacked and have a home (correction: most of our walls are still bare also). Alain has kept very busy with his many projects and I am sure we are keeping the south durham lowes in business. All in all, we are happily settling.

A Weekend of Fun...

For the 4th of July weekend, we had the Johnson fam stay with us for a few days of fun. We had so much fun~ a double date night complete with a babysitter, a cookout with family and friends, and lots of "hang time" while we finished unpacking and finding homes for everything. Jessica is a task-master and won't let you quit until the job is done.

Coby's Favorites...

Coby is also enjoying his new digs. His play room is a favorite room for all of us (thanks to the wonderfully comfortable IKEA chairs I got last month in charlotte). He loves to pull out all of the toy boxes and play with EVERYTHING! He has mastered the slide in every direction~ the normal way, climbing up the slide and down the steps, going down backwards, going down on his belly, rolling down sideways-head first of course, and any other possible way imaginable (thank God for foam tile flooring!). Possibly the best yet though was last night... Alain and I were cleaning up the kitchen and cleaning the floors in the kitchen while Coby was busy in his playroom. Alain went towards the front of the house to put some dirty towels on the steps to go up to the laundry room and caught Coby like this...

Coby's new favorite thing to do is to READ! He will bring you book after book to read to him, and as you can see, even when we are not looking, he is diving into reading! Hopefully we can continue to foster this love for books as he gets older!