brief update from Moving Central

You may be surprised to learn that normal life does not stop just because you're moving and unpacking. Who knew? The family still needs to be fed and the child still needs to be entertained. These people are so high maintenance! Society looks down on AB fending for herself for several hours while I unpack glasses and my 14 boxes of stationery, so things haven't moved along quite as quickly as I wish, but we're getting there. 

Besides house things, we've been busy with swimming lessons, grocery shopping, picking up spilled beads, cleaning the fish tank because she who will remain nameless gave Martin VanBluey half a container of fish food, several trips to Home Depot and losing our minds. The day after we closed on the house we went to the library for a moon landing anniversary party. We made paper bag space helmets to wear while we soared around the North American Nebula.

AB had her first day at homeschool group. She's doing two and I forgot to sign her up for one so my career as homeschool mom is off to a great start! She's doing sign language, music, and math. 

Today we were playing bank and had the following conversation:

Me: If there are 100 pennies in one dollar, how many pennies are in two dollars?
AB: Um. Do you want a nickel?
Me: 1 plus 1 equals what?
AB: 2!

Me: So 100 plus 100 equals what?
AB: Hmm. How 'bout...….2? 2! I need more quarters.  (She's finally allowed to play with money after the Quarter Swallowing Incident of 2018. I watch like a hawk the entire time.)

Good luck to Kelley the math teacher!

The sellers left their hot tub. It's been in three states and Cuba so it's a very well-traveled hot tub. Annabelle will jump in the deep end of the pool without a lifejacket but she insists on wearing a lifejacket in the hot tub. She likes to pretend she's a baby sea turtle or baby lobster and I'm the mom so it's a real stretch of the imagination for me. 

Not to be left out of the goings-on, L&L insist on showing up every time there's an open can of paint. 

No matter how many times I remove them from the room they always manage to sneak their way back in. If I had a quarter for every time I've said, "Linus George, you leave that alone! Lucille Barbara, I told you not to stick your nose there!" I could pay for a professional painter. I've been so worried about them tracking paint but I'm the one who made the worst paint stain. I had a quarter-sized circle on dark green paint on a paint chip while I painted grass on the mural in Sesame's room. I put it on a shelf while I got AB a snack and when I came back, the fan had blown it onto the floor with the paint side down. Naturally, she has a light rug in her room. I've used 5 products but cannot get it off. All I did was make the stain MUCH worse. An area rug wasn't in my original decor plans but it is now! 

Yesterday Annabelle said, "Mama is the most important thing to me." She requires a lot of attention and is always needing a listening ear to discuss tsumtsums or her latest idea for pillow forts, but I think I'll keep her around for a while longer.