Moving again

We bought a house! This time to live in rather than renovate and sell. It's in the Crescentwood neighborhood, our favourite area of the city. There is a community centre a block away with a skating rink in winter and a wading pool in the summer. There are also 3 daycares within walking distance and baby K is on all of their waiting lists already. (In the meantime, we have hired a nanny who will look after him full time at her house a 5 minute drive away.)

I'm very excited to finally live in our very own place. I've already started packing up. We'll be moved in by the end of February. I'm not excited about having to change my address everywhere again. Oh well, that just goes with the territory.

I will miss a number of things about our current apartment. I'll miss being so close to the riverwalk and the forks. I'll miss the pool, hot tub and sauna. I'll miss the mall downstairs and the fact that I can run down and buy milk or get a cup of coffee without going outside. I'll miss the underground parking and the garbage chute. I will also miss the fact that I never have to shovel or mow a lawn.

I won't miss the lack of visitor parking. I won't miss having to combine baby room and office (there are 3 bedrooms in the house). I won't miss having to wait for the elevator. I won't miss the lack of sunlight in our living room.

There will be some work that needs to be done on the place eventually. The kitchen needs to be gutted and redone, it's in pretty bad shape right now. All the windows need to be replaced. There's a teensy bit of work to be done to leak proof the basement. The basement will be finished later on. But we're not afraid of a little work, we're rather used to it by now!

Me & K

My little cutie pie is 7 months old now. My how time flies! He can sit up on his own now and he is desperately trying to crawl (and very frustrated because he can only go backwards right now.)

Looking for Child Care

I have only 2.5 more months before I'm scheduled to go back to work. At this point, I have no confirmed childcare. I'm starting to get a little concerned about that.

So... I have started contacting home daycares. I have also put an ad on Kijiji looking for some stay at home mom who wants to take in another child. I've had a couple of responses to that one. A few are totally out of the question (completely wrong end of town), but there are a couple that look promising. I'm following up with them to see what they are like. Fun times!

Wish me luck!

Finally, I can get started...

My thesis is moving again at long last! The email request for participants went out on Friday. Now on Sunday afternoon, I already have 12 willing participants. I only really need 20 of them, so 8 more to go and the rest are icing on the thesis cake!

Now I need to start sending out my questionnaires.


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On another note... K just got his first tooth. It wasn't too bad, he only got up 3 times that night after being up until midnight.

Santa's little helper...

Our little darling is growing so fast and learning so much! He's sitting on his own for a few seconds at a time. He's hopping away in his jolly jumper (at the moment not very happily). He rolls all over the place. I know that in just a blink of an eye he'll be running around the apartment getting into all the things we haven't thought of putting away.

Sigh, three months until I have to get back to work.