Monkey See, Monkey Do

Our little monkey Nathan is quite the imitator these days. Shake your head, he will shake his too. Say a word or sentence, he will often try to copy the sounds, or at least the length and tone of what you just said. Scratch your head and he will sometimes do that. Walk down the stairs and - HEY! Yeah, he tried that today. We were upstairs and he was busy playing with the clock radio (he knows which button to push to turn on the music so he can dance). The next instant he was by the stairs and poised to walk down them like a big person does. Little does he realize his little legs aren't quite long enough yet. He took a tumble. All the way down. I ran to him too late but Leo got there just in time to catch him at the bottom. Had he hit the ground . . . I don't even want to think about it. Leo heard me screaming and came running. Poor thing was shaken up - literally - but otherwise perfectly fine. Kids are resilient. Thank GOD! This on top of having a nasty little cold that has been making Nathan cough and whine (oh yay, more whining) and sniffle. Poor baby. I'm hoping tomorrow starts a new day with a fresh start of better health and no tumbles! Later in the day I was getting the paper and decided to get a scratch off. I figured if we were lucky enough to escape harm on the stairs I had better check my luck with a scratch off ticket. I won $10.

Perhaps luck will stay with us this week as well. We will need it as we have a busy time ahead. We have finalized plans and we are definitely moving! I've had a hard time letting myself get excited for the move since it seemed like such a stretch that we would even get this house. But it's happening. Many boxes have been packed and even my rose bushes have been unearthed so I can take them with us. We close on this house Thursday and can get into the other house starting that day. We will move in the big stuff Sunday and be out of here by this time next week. We close on the other house on the 10th. The time between closings isn't ideal but since the new one is empty now we can get in and get comfy soon. Yay!

And that's pretty much what is taking over our minds at this point. The lists of things to do are long and many. We really had no idea this would happen now instead of a year from now. All for the best though. This looks like it's going to be a great house and we can't wait to make it ours!