wow, dialup

soooooooooooooo slooooooooooooooooooow.

We're in, as of last Monday night, so it's been a week. In that time we've had lots of visitors, which is nice. I was on a mad rampage Tuesday and Wednesday, trying to get everything put away before the in-laws came to visit. I think I did really well, but apparently everything wasn't perfect. Whatev. Have to measure the bedroom furniture to see if there is any other way to organise it, our room is full of windows and a patio door, which is lovely, but doesn't leave much wall space for a variety of arrangements. We've also failed so far at the hanging of the pot rack, because the beams on the ceiling make it hang too low. May have an idea to fix that though.

I'll tell ya though, moving with a 4-month old, not a good idea. FYI. Next time, there'll be a babysitter or something involved. I underestimated how long it would take to load things, the packing wasn't so bad. When we rented the cargo van to bring the big stuff like the baby's furniture and our bed, it was not a good time. We learned as we were trying to load the crib that it had, of course, been assembled in his room, and was too wide to fit out the door. We then had to disassemble it, having no idea what we were doing, and no allan key to do it with. Good times. My poor sweet boy is teething also, and so wasn't really in the mood to be set down for any amount of time without screaming.

All's well that ends well though, I suppose. We have a lovely home, with lovely new appliances and bedroom furniture, and new to us livingroom furniture (it's giant, and red, but comfy). We still have a lot of work to do; I think there may be a landscaping party in the works. Wooh! You're all invited. I'm sure there will be beer involved, if that helps.

I'm going to go shower while my dear boy is napping. He has his 2 bottom teeth through, which was pretty traumatic for me, I have to say. It's early for that stuff, 6 months is average. Since this occurance there's been even more of the 'well *now* you'll stop breastfeeding?'. Um, no. I don't know how you guys drink, but there's not usually a lot of teeth involved. I know it happens, but we'll deal with that if/when it does. I figure my doctor knows more about what's best for my baby than most of the people who are suggesting that I stop breastfeeding, so I'll go with her counsel to not introduce anything else until 6 months. Then we get rice cereal, wohoo! Should be fun. He's doing well other than that too, he's a beast at about 18lbs, and I'm still not sure what colour his eyes will be, other than that they won't be blue.

The cats like the new place, they can sit on the stairs and peer through the railings to keep an eye on things, and there are lots of windows to paw at. Also no carpet to barf on, which is a bonus. They spent the first few days growling and hissing at eachother every time they came around a corner, but have gotten over that. Sure was fun.

Anyway, this is probably going to take an hour to publish, so I'd better stop. If anyone knows how to speed up dialup, I'm open to suggestions. I've heard of browseblast, but it costs money, so is a no go. I'm off to shower while my dear boy finishes his nap.