Feels like home to me

So, a ridiculous amount of things, growth, activity, chaos, and amazing living have occurred since the last time I was here. A very concise and lame summary of those things:

1. We did move out of our beautiful Brookside house, get the Uhaul unstuck from our front yard, unload said Uhaul's contents into my parent's basement, upstairs, dining room, and garage. Then the next day, cleaned our empty house top to bottom, seeing again the beauty of the dark hardwood floors, admiring the streaming light through the bay windows, and amazed at how large the space looked all alone...just in time for the renters to come by with their full moving truck to load her all back up again.

2. Three days later went to New York City, stayed next to Bryant Park, and explored for 5 days...the Central Park Zoo, the New York Aquarium, Coney Island, some shopping here and there, Little Italy, met great-great uncle Arthur and great-great aunt Faye, ate many delish foods, and then stayed an extra night by the airport after being told it was too windy to fly home.

3. A wee bit after being home, trying to unpack and organize, we head for the house of some dear friends here in KC to stay for the week and try to help them out. Our friend was very pregnant with twins, on bedrest, with a working hubby and a 20 month old little girl. So, Dom, Luca, and I did our best to assist and tried not to create more havoc than we were helping with (the day after we left, the twins were born)....

4. As we were driving to Oklahoma for the wedding of a friend. Dom and I left Luca with papa and mamaw for the night while we wedding-ed it up and stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. It was pretty entertaining and quite memorable. Let's just say casino people are stumblingly hilarious.

All in all, we've been doing well...busy little bees that we are. We've adjusted (kind of) to being in tighter quarters than we're used to and have enjoyed some good ole-fashioned family time. We go for lots of walks, play in the yard and sand box, grill out, go to City Market...we finally got our plants in the yard and our box built, so we're officially gardening again. It's pretty amazing to think there's only 7.5 weeks until our due date....we are definitely trying to soak up as much Luca time as we can now...knowing things will be changing very soon.