We're Here!!!

Our new Home

Austin and Connor dancing and eating lunch in our new home on moving day!

Connor on Mother's Day at Grandma's, crying because I walked out of sight for a minute:)

Austin taking the moving truck for a spin

Sunday we brought the last boxes from our old house to our new house in West Bloomfield! Things have been a little hectic trying to unpack what we can but not to much because we're getting some cheap home depot carpet installed next week...wanted our hardwood floors right away but we definitely don't have the money for that. And since we were denied the short sale on our old house we found some renters who will be moving in this weekend so Allen is busy cleaning the carpets over there and fixing nail holes in the walls and cleaning. I'm sure he'll be spending the night there on Friday. Thank goodness we found someone to rent so we don't have another month with two mortgages, I just hope they are respectful renters.

I've been out looking at daycares this week for the boys since I will be starting on the 25th of this month, holy crap are they expensive! We've decided to send them to Tutor Time which is a mile from our house and 2 miles from my work. They are NAEYC accredited and the have a new Montessori Preschool room with a certified Montessori teacher which I was excited to learn about and we decided to enroll Austin in that program and Connor will be in the transitional infant/toddler room. I took them there today to visit and they both seemed to like it. I'll be taking them in 2 or 3 more times next week before I start work so they can really get used to their classrooms before they start. I'm interested to see how Austin will respond to the Montessori room because it's really a different approach than traditional preschool programs. Montessori is really about Child-Centered environments that are beautiful and orderly, providing real tools that work, keeping materials and equipment accessible to children, and allowing children to take responsibility with large blocks of open-ended time. Montessori teachers are trained to "teach little and observe much." Meaning when children are engaged in serious work and learning, the teacher does not pull them away to begin a new activity unless it is absolutely necessary. The teachers focus there day and lesson planning around the needs of the children and how they observe their behavior to be for that day. I hope it's a program that Austin will really enjoy.

We're looking forward to Connor's first birthday next month! Hard to believe that little chubba lubby is almost a year old:) We are loving our new house and neighborhood. We've got a lot of work to do on the house but once it's done it's going to be so beautiful, I'm really excited about it:)