Rental House

This was the first of many moving days we will be having this summer. Here is the house we're renting until we can move into temporary lodging on base shortly before we fly to Germany. Right now we're visiting family up north, but as soon as we get back to Georgia we will start shipping our stuff overseas. Some of it will hopefully be there by the time we get there, and the rest of it might arrive as late as October.

One of Mike's coworkers, who has four kids of her own, offered to babysit Ben the morning we moved. He had a blast. Then he had a great time rummaging through the new house and all the boxes lying around. He really liked the little Scrabble pieces, and I was scared to death that he would choke on one.

Loving some orange juice. He does great with drinking through a straw, but he's actually starting to prefer drinking straight from a cup. Which is going to be super messy during our travels.

I made sure to have his CD player out so that he had something familiar from the old house. He parks himself in front of this mirror so much that I didn't have the heart to put it away.

Playing peekaboo in our new bedroom.

One of his new activities: jumping and rolling around on our bed.

Tuckered out on Momma's lap.

Not having cable, or any TV signal for that matter, has been good for us. Ben doesn't run to the TV as much because we rarely have it on. We can only watch DVDs, and we moved the DVD player above the TV so that Ben can't reach it. The house is significantly larger than our old house, and once I got some of the moving clutter put away, Ben had plenty of room to run. Plus the floor kind of creaks, and he loves stomping around the house.