Yeah, baby + Moving

Well, it's been a busy couple of weeks.

For those of you who may not have heard, last weekend we moved from our apartment to a house not too far away. It was brutal! Moving is never easy; moving 5-6 years of accumulated stuff is harder; and moving while trying not to traumatize your toddler harder still. Add to all of that the fact that I am having some fun with nausea (8 weeks pregnant!) and that I came down with a nice little cold bug the same weekend and you have a recipe for absolute exhaustion - for me and for Naysan, who had to pick up my slack. But we made it through that nightmare and the subsequent hellish work week, and surfaced Saturday morning with the dawning realization that we are in our own home, which belongs to us, and we have a great yard!

For two days we had a lovely time playing with Kian in his new world, working on unpacking when he was asleep, working in the yard with his "help" when he wasn't, and even taking a nice walk in our new neighborhood. Naysan even gave me the gift of letting me sleep in until 9-ish both days, which really helped with the nausea (thank you!!).

I have 2 funny Kian stories that happened this weekend which I have to share, but unfortunately no video or pictures so you'll have to use your imagination.

1. Yeah, baby!

Kian likes to call us. He'll holler "Mommy!" or "Daddy!", and I mean holler, even if we are standing right next to him, just to get a holler back. Usually we say "Yes, love" or "Yes, Kian" or "Yeah, baby" interchangeably - in a sort of loving but slightly distracted tone of voice. Well, he's started repeating what we are saying back to him -- with a twist. Now he goes around shouting "Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby! Yeah, baby!" with his own intonation. His version sounds a lot more like Austen Powers than the way we say it, and we can only imagine how it sounds to the neighbors!

2. Ouch!

This weekend I got to do a little gardening in the new back yard. Specifically, I got to weed out most of the vegetable beds and get them ready to do a little planting. As I was doing this, I was explaining to Kian that we were clearing out the grass and weeds so that we can grow food in the soil, and he was talking with me about this ("food! food! mumble mumble mumble, soil!") and walking around me in circles and sitting in the dirt watching me work. Then, when I pulled out a really big weed with a nice long root system, he goes "ouch! ouchie!"! And every good root I pulled out afterward he said the same! I had to admit, I didn't think those weeds really liked being pulled out of the earth either, but I tried to justify it by saying that there were lots more of them around and we didn't invite them to grow here, so it was ok to pull these ones out so we can grow food instead. Somehow I still felt a little mean. Ouch!

Yeah, I model.