MIA

I am still here, mostly. We are still settling in at the new house and things are still a little crazy. I have only used the computer 3 times in the last few weeks and then it was only to deal with email I knew was requiring attention.
I am missing blogging but taking care of my family (especially the 3 littlest), keeping up on housework, dealing with day to day issues and continually trying to unpack and organize the house have been taking up all of my time.
I'm sure things will settle down eventually but until then it will be hit and miss on updates here. I think I'll keep this short since my 45 minutes of sleep last night is not letting me think clearly or in complete sentences at the moment but I hope to be back sooner next time, hopefully with a picture post!

Condo Life

While at the condo the kids found numerous ways to entertain themselves in our tiny living space.

Playing in all the empty cupboards was one of them.

We didn't unpack anything while we were there since it was only going to be about a month so we just lived out of boxes and baskets.

I know the pictures are sideways again but Bronzes computer has a mind of its own and it's choosing not to cooperate today.

They also spent time using packages of diapers to slide and ski across the carpet.

This was the built in jungle gym, I mean staircase, that they spent a majority of their time on.

We didn't have any stairs at our other house so they thought this was great fun!

More cupboards of course. Ardon was always more than willing to give Elee a 'boost' to get into places.

Then of course who can resist mattresses at ground level. We took just the bare essentials with us so bulky items like bedroom furniture we left in storage.

You may have noticed when I talked about the condo it was in past tense. That's because we're finally in our house! It's been such a relief to finally get here even though we have to finish moving furniture from storage this weekend. I hope to be able to give you the grand tour soon but for now I'm going to kick my feet up and enjoy the fire in my fireplace a few more minutes before my busy Friday goes full swing!

Firsts

And now an intermission from blogging about housing to blog about firsts.
Eliad had his first trip to the zoo yesterday!

It was great weather for it and since Bronze managed to get off around noon (which still is an 8 hour day for him) we decided to take the kids out since our pass is going to expire soon.

Elee was big enough to really enjoy it this time, she liked it in the past but now she's big enough to run around and get into everything!

Ardon enjoyed it more than usual too. He had to make sure and point out all the animals in all the different exhibits to us.

Other than getting irritated when the sun was in his eyes, Eliad did well. (I know our picture quality isn't great but all we had with us was Bronze's 'fake phone'.)

We haven't been able to do many extra fun activities over the summer because of the busy schedule with the house on the market, new baby and the move.

It was nice to get the kids out for something fun.

Our last stop on the way out was the apes.

This ape was very social, if you put your lips up to the glass like you were trying to give it a kiss it would kiss back!

We let the kids climb around on the statue a bit before we left.

Eliad got to participate in this too!
We had a lot of fun and I'm so glad the weather was nice to make it an even more pleasant trip!