The big move

We made it!  Luckily everything, nearly everything arrived in one piece.  I'm pretending our basement isn't part of our house right now because the amount of boxes down there is egregious and I get overwhelmed when I think about where to put everything.  The main and second floors are coming together and are nearly box-free, which is the way I like to be.  :)  Regarding our basement, I told Tony that "I know Rome wasn't built in a day, which is probably why it's a good thing I'm not Roman because I'm not patient enough to wait for things to come together".  Atleast I'm honest about my neurosis.

I'll post more videos later, but there's lots to report, here goes:

Cal and I stayed at my folks' house for about a week while we tried to close on our house.  Our belongings sat in a Uhaul in Wichita for that week, which was less than desirable.  While we were home, we kept Mimi and Papa busy and saw Great Grandma every day and ate an abundance of wonderful food.

Kay and Dave watched Cal while we got the Uhaul loaded.  They are so wonderful.  Have I mentioned how much we're going to miss them?!  Cal got them a present before we left.  The back story is that Big Dave found a box turtle on the golf course one day and brought it home for a few weeks.  The kids named it "Cheesy Gabrielle".  So now every time Cal sees a turtle, it's name is "Cheesy"! ha  This turtle garden statue was a must have for the Howertons.  

 

 

 

We played at all the parks in Larned while back home.  That town has some amazing parks and Cal loves each of them!

 

Trying out the track at the High School....

 

 

Cal was just catching up on his social media:

We can't go to Larned in the summer without stopping at the Splash Pad!

 

 

I don't have a particular pic to post, but Cal loves his "yoccer ball" and his "yuckers".  He'll say the /s/ when I say it first but it's pretty darn cute how he says it now. 

 

Cal and Jaci had a great time at the Great Bend Zoo.  It was so good to catch up with my good friend, Kayla!

 

Cal fell off the back porch one day at Great Gma's.  It was a big "ouchie", but he recovered quickly and his scarring will be minimal, I think.



It looked better the next day....errrr, a little bit better.

Even ol' Donnie got hurt while back in Larned.  He refuses to slow down, even though he can't see where he's zooming off to in full force, and because of that he ran head first into my folks' brick wall in the back yard.  Poor guy.


He insisted on a blue donut while we were at Dillons and he couldn't possibly wait until we were home, or atleast in the car, to eat it.  He's definitely entered his opinionated, independent phrase......do you like how I worded that?  :)

 We are going to start potty training soon, so Cal needed to pick out his potty chair.  His lips are blue because much like his affinity for blue donuts, he prefers blue suckers because they always leave evidence. 

 

For right now, he just enjoys going into the bathroom, shutting the door (because every 2 year old needs privacy), and fake grunting.  He'll then get up and grab a wad of toilet paper to throw into the real toilet.  However, on this day it was a wee bit more than a wad.