One Last Move--For a While, Anyway

Whew, what a crazy couple of months it has been!  I have tons to write about, so keep tuned, there will be a lot of posts coming!  To start off with, we are officially in our new house!  It still feels surreal.  We have our own house!  We moved in the middle of December, we were here about a week, then we took off to California for a week.  We decided to wait until we got back from California to get internet, and then it took a week for it to get hooked up....so, we have been without internet (other than when we were in California, we connected to my grandparents wi-fi, but we didn't bring the laptop) for almost a month.

Torture, I tell you, torture.

I have been getting lots of requests for pictures of the house.  I am here to deliver.  Keep in mind that we are still in move-in mode and things aren't really put together yet, but you will get the general idea.  Additionally, I didn't take pictures of the whole house, just a few areas.


The formal living room--well, mostly just the fireplace and one of the windows.  Our first fire in our new home--we didn't burn down the house ;-) --and J drinking some hot chocolate to go with it (I have a better picture of the fire which will be in the next post).

Kitchen

The view from the kitchen.  Beautiful.  So tranquil.

Thankfully, weather held out for us while we moved, but the next day we woke up to snow! 

Master bedroom

Zuri's room

Zuri's playroom, and a shot of Kai's area/room (I had it organized once, for about ten seconds before she discovered it)


Part of the family room and a view of Kai's area/room

Our backyard, with mature fruit trees!

My dad drove out to help us move, so we were able to visit with him for almost a week, which was really nice.  J's parents and his aunt Peggy were also instrumental in helping us move, and we had help from a few others as well.  Peggy spent two days painting before and while we were moving.  The first day Shin helped Peggy paint while I was at trach/vent clinic at Primary Childrens with Kai.

Zuri loves our new house.  She is all over the place, and will even spend time in rooms/area's without us.  For some reason she loves her closet, and we have caught her sleeping in it several times.  In fact, our first night in our house she went into her closet twice before she finally slept in her bed.  Funny kid.


Kai has adjusted to the move well.  Our original plan had been to put him in a bedroom, but we decided against it for several reasons.  The biggest is that we want to make sure that Kai is included as part of the family.  By having him in his own bedroom, he is blocked off from the rest of us.  It is not a simple thing to move him around.  If we had an extra set of equipment (ie humidifier, food pump--which is semi-portable, concentrator, etc), then it wouldn't be as difficult.  He can be off humidification for short periods of time (which is how we are able to take him places)--we just use an artificial nose--but he does need the extra oxygen, and we would run through tanks like crazy without the concentrator (which takes room air and converts it to pure oxygen).

So for now we have Kai in an area next to the family room.  It works out really well because we have our space in the family room, but Kai is also right there as a part of the family.  :-)