Brooke and Savannah

Our first trip to downtown Savannah two weekends ago. 

--Downtown Savannah is awesome! We've been so lucky with the weather.  Each weekend has been beautiful and pretty warm.  Two weekends ago we walked on the Riverwalk and then to City Market.  Both are wonderful and we can't wait to show them to everyone that wants to come and visit!  We went back to City Market this past weekend.  There is live music, big open spaces with fountains for the kids to run around in, great food, and it is dog friendly (we haven't been brave enough to take Reagan yet, she would wear us out but we want to try it sometime!). 

--I'm really enjoying our house.  It finally doesn't feel like I'm staying in someone elses house. Not sure I can say it totally feels like my house yet, but we are getting closer!   We need to hang some pictures and get some things put up in the shed and then we will have it pretty much unpacked and settled.  We are waiting for someone to come next weekend and haul away a shed full + half the garage (literally) of junk the previous owners left behind.  Crazy.  That was the most frustrating part of the whole move.  They left so much junk behind for us to deal with.  And the toilets and sinks.  The plumber was here so often we started thinking of him as family!

--Our neighborhood seems great.  It is a huge neighborhood with huge trees everywhere.  There is a park in the neighborhood too!  It is too far to walk with the kids (and expect them to walk back after playing) but we rode our bikes there the other day and Bryce did great!  CeCe still rides in her seat on the front of my bike so she's always ready to ride!  She and I have been out riding a good bit. 

--I love Bryce's school.  I love that he's happy there.  I love that it takes me three minutes to drive there.  I love that they don't start until 9.  I thought that this would be too late, but the kids sleep until 7:30ish, we are lazy while eating and watching two shows and then we play and get ready for school.  It is a nice laid back morning for us (which we love!)  I don't like that he doesn't get home until 3:50 but with the weather so nice we come home and go straight outside until it is time to cook supper.  We leave here around 3:25 to get Bryce in the afternoons so you know what that means??? CeCe can take a nap again!!!  WooHoo!!!  She doesn't always sleep, but is back there for quiet time for an hour-1.5hrs. each day.  Gives me such a nice break to work on things around here or sit and relax.  I had forgotten how nice and needed nap time was!  Bryce doesn't have specific homework each night, usually just a list of things to work on with the kids at home so I choose one thing to work on each night while I'm getting supper ready or right after we eat.  I know this won't always work, he is going to need help with homework one day but for now it works great!  CeCe likes to sit in there with us while he works on homework and color or read books too.  With school start time being so much later we can be a little more flexible with bed time.  Bryce's official bedtime now is 8:00 but we often extend it without worrying he's not going to get enough sleep.  CeCe's bedtime depends on nap time but she usually is in bed by 7:15. 

--I'm not happy with our pediatrician's office.  It is a big practice which I wanted to avoid, but we had 30 days to get Bryce's shot records transferred and had to get in somewhere quick.  The Dr. is great with the kids but the office is just too big, too busy and not clean enough for me.  Not sure what we will do about this...

--I'm ready to meet some friends.  I did meet one mom today who lives on my street, has a 5 year old boy and a 2.5 year old girl.  Sounds promising, right??!!