Moving Day!

Finally here are some pictures from the move. Poor Emily had no clue what was going on! She was a pretty good sport through it all. She even tried to help us a little!

Just chillin' watching the Wiggles.

"We have to put my barrettes somewhere safe Daddy!"

She seriously wheeled that cart all the way out without us telling her too. She saw us doing it and decided she could help too!

It was hysterically cute! She was so serious about it too!

YAY!!! Stupid apartment is empty!!!!!

We did get a tasty Chicago treat to go though!! Yummm!!!

We never really thought that we would be moving back to Ohio, but we are so glad to be back.
Funny how things work sometimes!! Now if only our house in SC would sell....

Pictures are in!

I've finally gotten the pictures into the computer! I had taken a few pictures of Emily at her daycare the last week before we moved. She loved it there! She's begun to adjust to her new daycare. She still cried for a couple of days, but Thursday and Friday she didn't cry and even reached for her teacher when she got there. She's the youngest in the class right now-but I think that she'll be able to find a couple of buddies there.

So excited as she's walking in. (Yes, we still have our SC plates!).

Nap-time!




This was Emily's favorite teacher Miss Brittany.



Playing in her classroom.

OHIO

Well, jeesh, I had been so excited that I was keeping everything all up to date......OK, then we moved!!! Things were a little unsure for awhile, but right before we moved, we learned that Aaron was going to be able to work from home! So, he still gets to be an employee of home office, and also live in Ohio by our families-the best of both worlds! However, until he gets the computer from Allstate to work on all day-we've only had one computer. I can't very well get on to 'play' when he's supposed to be working! Aaron has enjoyed working from home-in his PJs mind you!! Shoot, I would too-that's guaranteed!

I just started with Nationwide Children's Hospital yesterday. All the exciting hospital orientation is going on this week and next. I know that it is supposed to make you all mushy gushy excited about the hospital and all-but it is working! It seems like a really good time to be getting into their hospital-they are doing a lot of growing and getting a lot of recognition. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know-but I am excited to be getting back to work! Definitely never will replace MUSC!!!

Emily did end up having to go to daycare-just for a half day in the mornings. She's had a rough time with that so far this week :( Hopefully it will be better every day. Especially since I have to go everyday this week and next! I think I'm handling it a little better than last time since Aaron has been taking her. I just hope it goes easier every time-she loved her old day care so much!! She has totally loved playing with Saylor though! They have been so much fun to watch play with each other, and interact with each other. Emily says "Lay-lay" and will give him kisses!! So sweet!!

Basically things have been going pretty good since we got here. We've both said how it is just feels like such a relief to be back 'home.' We never thought it would feel that way, but it does. Of course it doesn't mean that everything is easy. With half of our things still in storage, and the rest of it crammed in my parents house.....life has been different! It hasn't been too bad-I think that we are adjusting fairly well. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of our bazillion pictures up soon....just gotta find that cord to connect the camera to the computer......

Bathtime fun

Jeesh-I can't believe that just 2 weeks from today we'll be Ohio bound!!! We never thought that we'd want to move back, but now we can't get there quick enough! I finished all of my CEs to get my Ohio nursing license reactivated, just have to get it notarized on Monday then put it in the mail. I have an interview the Monday after we get there at Columbus Children's. I guess now it's called Nationwide Children's Hospital. In the NICU of course! I'm looking forward to taking care of some more critical patients, although I hope I'm not too rusty! It's been about 1 1/2 years since I've worked amid chaos. I do miss it though-looking forward to getting back into a teaching environment.

We've been able to get a bit of packing done. Since half of our things are in storage already, there shouldn't be too much to do, but it still seems like we have a lot of stuff. I guess you aquire a lot with a kid! Along with all of the moving business, Emily is just growing, growing, growing!! She's really starting to try to talk. There's quite a few things that she says, and definitely tries to copy what you say all the time. It's so funny-and amazing too. I can't believe how quick she picks things up! I will say one of the funny things she'll say is 'waffle' (only my daughter would be speaking mainly food words!). The funny part though is that when she says it, it kinda sounds like the little boy on "Meet the Fockers" when he says ass-hole. Only, I swear it's waffle!! I'll have to get some video of that to see if y'all agree. I work on it!

This was just tonight, splish-splashing all over the bathroom, just going through a bit of her repertoire. She's pretty quick to answer, and quiet too.....she's just too darn cute!! I love it!

More Snow!!!

Yesterday we had another little snow storm. Aaron worked from home again. Thank goodness he's able to do that every now and then, because it was pretty crazy out there! I guess we got around another 8 inches. That's on top of everything that we had over the weekend and the past couple of days of snow. I ended up not having to go to work which made the day even better! I accomplished a lot staying at home though. I caught up on some laundry and we got a bunch of packing done. We did finally pack the Christmas tree up. It's so dark in that spot now-we got used to the soft glow of the lights! Emily's toys have very quickly taken back over the area though.
I had bought some Wiggles DVDs for cheap on Ebay so that Emily had something to watch during the drive when we move. The XBox has gotten packed up, which is what we were using for our DVD player. So, Emily has been watching them on the portable DVD player. We set it on the end table and she leans on the arm of the couch. She is crazy about it though-I kinda feel like a bad mom some days, because that's all she wants to do-sit there and watch Wiggles!!! I do end up getting her up and playing-I promise! However, we have gotten a few cute shots of her as she's entranced.

So precious.

Kinda getting sleepy here too.

I think this is so cute!!! Peek-a-boo!!

This is outside of our porch last night.

In our attempt to get away from the Wiggles, we went outside to play again today. That's our little porch right there too.

I was saying "Emily, Emily"-to get her attention, so she was pointing to herself "That's me!"

On top of the big pile of snow that was plowed from the parking lot. She just thought that was great!

Getting ready to slide.

Wheeee!!!!

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Self-portrait! Emily's not too sure about it though.

OK Mom, let's go back inside-it's hot chocolate time!

Shrimp

I'm pretty sure that last night was the first time that we'd made seafood since we moved up to Chicago. We made tequila shrimp-and it actually turned out quite yummy! I had quite a problem in the grocery store though. You know, we got a bit spoiled when we were able to buy our seafood fresh and local. I just stood there going back and forth reading all of the labels in the case for the longest time-they must've thought I was crazy! They were all shipped in from somewhere, frozen then thawed, blah blah blah....Oh how I miss the nice little market that Boone Hall had...
Oh well, Chicago food does have its benefits. There may not be any oyster roasts or Lowcountry broils, but there is some of the best pizza (of course) and our new favorite-Italian beef sandwiches! Oh the 'new' foods that we will be bringing back to Columbus :)

Emily got a new big girl towel-and she loves it! It's big enough to wrap around her so she doesn't get cold. She looks cute too-of course!

This was walking out the door last week to go to daycare/work. She was getting so frustrated-she's already learning that I don't get out the door too quick! She was trying to carry both bags to the door-what a strong girl!

Snow Day!

Yesterday we had nearly a foot of snow fall! Aaron stayed home from work it was so snowy-nice way to start the weekend! I was very thankful that I didn't have to go to work either. We decided to bundle up and take Emily outside to play.

At first she wasn't too sure, and wouldn't let go of our hands.

It was so hard for her to walk in it-it was past her knees it was so deep! Aaron and I cleared some paths so that she could run around.

She ended up having a blast! Exploring all the snow, chasing us around, and Daddy even taught her how to "throw" snowballs at Mommy!

Somehow I even got her to make a snow angel!

She really did have a great time! I think that Aaron and I really had just as much fun too. It's been quite awhile since we were able to play, roll around and be silly in the snow like that. Aahhh to be a kid again!!