Here are the last few photos from our old life (although Eric may have some gems on his phone that will surface in a few months).
Everyone decided they loved art class. Eric was the teacher. I was the teacher's assistant.
John had a fever the day Eric left on his European tour, so I took him to the Botanical Garden.
Duck duck goose!
John looks really sick, doesn't he.
The old Halloween costumes were found - Edie and John claimed the bear, while Oscar was very happy with the elephant.
In our own driveway! Maybe the same one that was caught in the fall and introduced to the turtle sandbox!
Rocks Zuzeum
Baba Yaga and I made our own expedition to Yellow Branch Falls, where I saw a snail. Oscar had found a snail the day before when we walked at Chicken Log Run, and carried it all the way back to the car and placed it on the potting bench once we got home. Then it ran away. But see, there are more snails in the world!
Oscar's end-of-kindergarten celebration. They sang several very long songs. Then we watched a very long slideshow including separate pictures of each child holding a sign saying what they wanted to be when they grow up (Oscar: "Scientist". My man! Demario: "Teenager" Several children: "Vetrenarian"[sic]) and then in cap and gown and then at the beginning of the year and then at the end of the year whoof! Finally many rounds of pictures and back to the classroom for....another song! A nice long one! And then cake and then I escaped from that crazy atmosphere to pick Eric up from the airport. He was so sorry he missed this celebration.
Moving day shenanigans. The children were so happy to watch shows in their nest of all the bedding.
All the stuff we planned to take with us in the U-Haul trailer (including the cats) got shut up in here so the movers wouldn't take it. The trailer ended up not happening because the U-Haul place was incompetent, so we rented a truck that we only half-filled. I drove the truck with Oscar as co-pilot. Eric drove the minivan with John and Edie and the cats, and had shoulder soreness for the next week from reaching behind him blindly to recover lamby, the iPad, snacks, bottles, etc.
Edie fell in love with these balloons, and they stuck around for days. She kept biting them, and enough air had leaked out that this didn't pop them.
Cuties at the Taco Bell - our lunch break in North Carolina, after going to the one Wells Fargo open on Saturday for the cashier's check we needed to buy our house on Monday! No Wells Fargos in one hundred miles of Lansing!
But we really made it! Garage was lost in the East Lansing hotel, and it turned out he was hiding inside the bed's box spring, so he did come back to us! Cats are amazing hiders and also the worst.
We love our house. We love our neighborhood. We love.....we love East Lansing. We can't wait for y'all to come visit! We have room for everyone!
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