Caroline One Month

Here is Caroline at one month old.  She is a fantastic baby.  She goes to sleep around 10 and then wakes around 6 am.  Not too bad.  She loves to look around and she loves to be held.

 Henry is getting used to sleeping in a new place.  We tried him out with letting him sleep in a toddler bed but we have reverted back to the crib because he would stay awake and get cranky then he would fall asleep in random places.  I found him one afternoon at the base of the stairs.

 Caroline has been getting in a lot of sleep too.

 The boys really adore Caroline and are very helpful with her.  Lincoln was finally courageous enough to hold his little sister, and he LOVED it so much.

 Henry is super helpful with Caroline.  He will always tell me when she is crying and then he runs to find her binky and give it to her.  He is attentive to her needs.

Enjoying Our New Home

Move In Day

Everything was unloaded by noon on Friday.  Bryan was our driver who brought all our things to us.  We were blessed to have two of my sisters and their families come out to help us unpack.  We had our kitchen in working order by the weekend.  I was/am incredibly grateful for all the help that my family gave to us during this time.    

The boys were excited for the back yard.  They wanted to play with the hose right away.  They also loved the garage.  After a few days the boys discovered the cool stairs and how to slide down them.  At this time in November the boys really love to wear their 'slippy jammies' and slide down the stairs on their bellies.  I think we will soon see a lot of wear on the stairs.

This was one of Bryan's dogs that Parker enjoyed playing with.

I was excited that we would have a yard and so I bought a slip and slide for the kids to play with while we unpacked.  I didn't quite expect it to be too cold for them to play.  We also don't have much of a hill to put it on, the yard is kind of flat which will be great for playing ball on.

My little sister had her birthday celebration with us.  We enjoyed some yummy red velvet cake and ice cream.  We are excited to be closer to our family.  And we look forward to what is in store for us here in Colorado.

Route 66...

Well the route we actually took was Interstate 70.  The drive went really well.  Our loaders were able to get us packed up in the truck pretty quick and we checked out.  We left around 5:00 and made it a few hours before stopping for the night.  We had plenty for the kids to do and when there was a rough go we let them watch a show or if they had done really well then they earned a short movie.  Lincoln really loved getting one on one attention from my parents.  

My sister sent us a new movie to watch, Tom and Jerry.  Lincoln traveled with my mom and dad in the Civ and colored a lot of pictures using the Color Wonder stuff.  Once the other two were out in the van we let Parker watch the movie.  We love when he laughs like that.

Caroline did awesome.  Newborns are pretty easy to drive with.  They sleep a lot.

I didn't realize that the Mississippi was around because we were looking at the arch and looking for the Missouri sign.

Sunsets.  I love them.  We didn't see enough of them in Georgia.

I let Henry color this page while we were out at a restaurant.  He took the crayon and colored on the tub because there must not have been any more room to color on this paper.     

In one of our last legs of the trip we had all the boys.  My parents took Caroline.

Right when I took the picture I realized that I had missed the welcome to Kansas sign, this was the best I got.

Henry continued his coloring skills onto the bed but this time with a pen that he found on the nightstand.

Once we made it to Colorado Springs we stayed in a hotel that had a slide in the swimming pool.  We met my sisters there.  We were really tired but early the next morning we started to unload the truck.