Things I Can't Wait for in NY

1. Seeing my family
2. Hiking in the Adirondacks
3. Hanging out on the beach at Piseco Lake
4. Going to Jazz Fest if we're not on our way to IL
5. Getting my haircut by Erika
6. Sewing projects with my mom
7. Mowing the lawn
8. Playing outside with Clayton
9. Taking Clayton to the beach
10. Getting a Job, teaching again
    
11. Looking for a house and getting one
12. The cross country reunion
13. Running down the dirt road like I used to do regularly
14. Seeing my friends again
15. Going back to Geneseo and visiting Letchworth
16. Picnics
17. Visiting NYC for museums and shows
    and I can't think of anymore right now
    

Amazement

Clayton finds everything so interesting. Here he is examining one of my earplugs. He kept crawling into the hamper, but every time I tried to take a photo he would move toward me and get out.
Every day I can't believe I have a son. He is so amazing to me. I notice how he observes things and how he learns. His fine motor skills are great and he seems to understand so much of what I say. He responds with the beginning sounds of things like the moose on the quilt hanging in his bedroom, the books he has to have while being changed, the bears and moose on the train display on his windowsill, the birds, milk (his own sign language based on the real sign), banana (which is ma ma ma...), da who is dad, car sounds and the best of all is his elephant noise that he learned from dad.

Recent move list

Good things about the house

1-Two showers, neat drains (pic to come)

2-Double sinks in the master bathroom

3- Huge bedroom, but not really enough to fill it, too bad we don’t have a king size bed

4- Microwave over the stove

5- Gas stove, with an easy clean up surface

6- Studio upstairs with lots of light

7- Huge basement, room for a workout spot

8- Strange carpeted closet off the living room- making it into our cd and album collection and various books and games, misc. Cooking ware like roaster pan, wok, and pressure cooker. It also doubles for a play room where I can put up a gate and keep the little monster from escaping

9- One car garage with garage door opener (that’s a first)

10- When you are sitting in the living room you can’t see neighbors, just the hill and the mountain behind.

11-First floor laundry hookup with cabinets.

Things that suck about our new house

1-Lights by front door and on garage outdoors: bright enough for landing planes to go by. These lights and ones from the neighbor and the parking lot light up the house inside. There’s barely a need for lights inside. It kind of looks like lights from an alien landing.

2-No room for a car to park in the driveway

3-Strange neighbor who doesn’t say “hi” when you say “hi” to her

4-Matt had to add lighting to the laundry closet.

5-No bathroom downstairs where Clayton sleeps and it makes it inconvenient to dump and rinse poopy diapers.

6-The telephone wires weren't ready for service and Matt had to drill his own hole. The maintenance man came 2 minutes later and drilled one without knocking on our door. He drilled it in the wrong spot and then just drove away.

7-The hallway stairs light isn't working and we can't replace the bulb because it's too high. It's a little dangerous at night if you want to get to the baby.

8-Same as the last house, you can't attach the Direct TV dish to the house, so Matt had to move his contraption he made for the other place. He filled a bin with Quickcrete to hold up a pole. This time he dug a hole to set it in because even though it weighed a ton, the wind would move it and we would lose HD channels. Poor us. :)