This past spring it has been a busy one. First of all I went back to work a couple of days a week and we decided to sell our home to move into a neighborhood that has better schools for Andrew. We also wanted more elbow room since we were very close to our neighbors’ homes. So we’ve been busy getting our current home ready to sell, purchasing and renovating the new home to get it ready for moving into it. It’s much different moving with a toddler in the house. Everything seems to take much longer to do since he always wants my attention or is unpacking boxes that I just packed or is messing up the house immediately after I just cleaned the house (to show the house for potential buyers). It was a bit frustrating at times but we all managed very well to the move. We got Andrew involved with helping us any way we could to keep him busy and focused on doing something constructive in order to keep him out of trouble. At times to give Andrew a break from the move we would take him over to the park near our new home and he would swing on the swings most of the time he was there. He didn’t want to get off even to go on the slide. When I would ask him if he wanted to go on the slide he would smile and say “SWING!”.
Andrew loves to get involved with whatever we are doing. So we gave him little tasks to help us as we were getting the house ready to move into. I was quite impressed at how Andrew now knows what a screwdriver and pliers are. Robert would have him go and retrieve them for him when he needed him. I guess when your Daddy is a “Mr. Fix it” it’s hard not to know what a screwdriver and pliers are even at 2 years old. It was hysterical to observe Andrew wanting to get a close up look at what his Daddy was doing when Robert was attaching a bracket to the wall behind the oven (so the oven won’t tip over). Robert was lying on the floor to get closer to where he had to attach the bracket and Andrew saw him and got all excited to watch that he crawled on top of Robert and straddled Robert’s abdomen and leaned into the area where Robert was working. Robert and I started laughing at him. Such a curious little boy we have.
After two months of renovating, packing and moving we were finally settled into our new home. Andrew had a few issues of confusion with where home was. He would go to the back door and point to it and say “Home”. As if to say “Let’s go home”. After a few weeks of telling him that we are home and making a big deal out of saying “We’re Home”, every time we would pull into our driveway to make him realize that this is our home now he feels more settled now.
We painted Andrew’s room a medium blue and decorated it with Thomas the Train décor. We purchased a twin bed and furniture for him since I figured that the reason why he was waking up so much during the night was because his crib mattress was so hard. When I would put him down for a nap in our bed at our old house, he would sleep like a baby. So we figured it was the bed itself, so I wanted to get his room set up with his new bed when we first moved into the house so we wouldn’t have to set up the crib just to take it down again. Praise God for that wisdom because Andrew sleeps like a baby now in his new bed. He loves it and the Thomas bedding that we got for him as well. To make his room more inviting and fun for him I tacked a fleece Thomas the Train blanket on the wall above his bed. It has a big picture of the face of Thomas on it smiling. I think he loved the fleece so much that he would stand on his bed against the wall and place his cheek against it and smile and say “Love, Love”. Each night for about a week after we got his bed, as I was putting him to bed, Andrew would give the wall a hug where Thomas was and say “Love, Love”. He is too funny.
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