Goodbye Maryland

Well, today is our last night in our house in Maryland. The movers come tomorrow to start packing up the house. They plan on packing up the place Monday and Tuesday and then loading everything up on the truck Wednesday. Thursday the cleaning lady comes and also the steam cleaners for the carpets. Matt does his final out-processing on Friday and then we head off to Deb and Joe's house, where the kids are currently at. The house has been way too quiet without them! But it has been nice to be able to get everything ready.

Last weekend we went over to the Ling's for one last dinner get-together. We're sad because we've lived near each other since Hawaii and the kids are good friends too. There is always Skype though :)

Noah, Liam, and Isaac playing outside before dinner

 Liam was very happy to see Rose and gave her a hug

 Just walking around

 Isaac and Noah

Rose and Liam playing in the kitchen drawers

 Kids playing in the boys room

 Rose was very happy to discover this huge ball!

 Liam wearing silly glasses

 The boys making silly faces

 Attempting to get a picture of all four kids looking at the camera

 Isaac was giving Noah a hug

The next day, we met up with them at Kinder Farms Park. It was beautiful outside :)

 Nice picture of Liam

Ikey walking around

Rose loved going down the slide, face first!

 The last time she went down the slide, she tried 

getting up before she was done moving and busted her top lip :( 

 Playing

Playing together

And here is a video of Rose going down the slide

This past week was also Isaac's last week going to Daycare at Miss Laurie's. Here's a cute picture of the two of them on Friday.

And here are two random pictures from later this week:

 Both kids reading books after dinner one night

We took out the carseats from the van so we could 

take it to the port to get shipped out, and they wanted 

to sit in each others carseats. Silly kids. 

On Friday, the van got dropped off at the Port of Baltimore where it will get shipped to Hawaii. That night, Deb and Joe came up and on Saturday morning they took the kids back to their home in PA. It was eerily quiet after they left. Saturday I went over to the Rojas for dinner (Matt was sick and couldn't go, poor guy). It was really nice :) The original plan was that the kids would still be here and we would get a picture of Josiah and Jackson with Isaac and Rose. We weren't able to get that picture so we'll just have to photoshop something together haha

This next week will be busy but starting Friday we will be in PA. We'll be there until the 27th when we fly out to CA! Let the adventure, begin!

Grandparents and Museums

The kids have been getting a healthy dose of grandparents these past few weeks. Last Friday to Tuesday, Grandpa Black (Terry) and Grandma Cindy came to visit. We gave them a jam-packed long weekend, with trips to DC to see some museums and then to the Air and Space Museum in Virginia.

On Saturday (19th), went to DC:

 Isaac and Rose ready to see some neat stuff

 Isaac and the bear

 With Grandpa Black

 With Grandma Cindy and Grandpa Black

Matt by the giraffe while wearing his giraffe shirt

 Rose wanted to stretch her legs

 Walking with Grandma Cindy

 Ooo T-Rex!

 The Capital getting ready for the inauguration 

Looking down at some air planes in another museum. 

On Sunday, Terry and I took Isaac to Kinder Farms where we met up with the Lings and the kids played for a bit before they came over for dinner at our place.

 Isaac and Noah

Climbing on a rope, supervised by Grandpa

 Isaac and Noah playing Candyland 

(Isaac was more interested in the cards

 and I basically played for him, but they still had fun)

 Liam, Rose, and Theo under the table

Rose was licking the floor, like how Theo was

 Rose and Noah

Rose and Noah playing

 Isaac and Rose getting ready for bed and snuggling with Grandpa

On Monday we went to Isaac's favorite place, the Air and Space Museum in Virginia. 

 Space shuttle!

 On Tuesday, Isaac got really sick and complained about his ears hurting. I took him to urgent care where he had a 103.6 fever and diagnosed with ear infections in both ears. They gave him meds and a popsicle while there and the fever went down a good amount and he was back to running around. This pic was taken when we were waiting for the doctor. 

 Take notice of all the food under her chin.. saving for later??

 Smiling for me

Smiling for me

 Mmmm oatmeal with raisins!

 Yum yum yum!

Love your crazy hair this morning, Ikey 

 Oh ya, we got snow! Not too much, but just 

enough to toss the kids outside for some pictures 

before they had enough

 Touching snow for the first time

 What IS this cold stuff???

 He wanted to make footprints in the snow

 She's had enough

Back in side, nice and warm

 Hi mommy!

 Rose watching Isaac and Isaac looking back... 

that's actually his reflection. Pretty neat!

On the 17th, Matt and I celebrated our 4yr anniversary. 

He got me pearl earrings and necklace :)

And here are two videos

This is a common occurrence at our house at dinner time: 

throwing a fit and not wanting to eat. 

Right after I got done filming, he started 

eating and was fine. Toddlers, oi! 

She's getting better at walking, if only she will let go, I am sure she can do it!

That's all for now! Grandma Deb is here visiting us this weekend while Matt went on a camping trip with all the men. Not many pictures though since we're just hanging out...been too cold out to really do anything fun, plus the kids both have coughs, Isaac has his ear infection, and I have a cold now too.