Moving day.

We moved into a more permanent place this week. Great view of the lake and way more room. Ady was worried as we were packing up and decided she wanted to personally move a few of her things. Even though I explained to her that we were just going down the road, she didn't want to lose her stuff for another month. So here you see her with her favorite sippy cup, her princess Belle water bottle, her current favorite stuffed dog, in her hand is a purple ducky bath toy and a todder chew toy that she likes to give brock, and if you look closely at the pocket on her dress you will see that it is stuffed with things like bouncy balls and a fishing pamphlet that she got from me. Quite the character.
So on one hand you have the negative effect of having moved so much that our three year old fears for her toys when she sees us loading a box or suitcase. But on the other, we had as good a time as any Christmas morning with Ady when we unpacked our trailer and pulled out stuff that has been in boxes for either, one month(since leaving Utah), or 6 months(since leaving Hawaii), 2 and a half years(since leaving Key West), or for 4 and a half years(since moving to Key West and leaving stuff in storage). Ady loved finding her old stuff and things that she didn't know we had and even some that we had forgotten we had. Ady has an awesome sense of fashion(Kasey blames me since I dress her in crazy combinations on a regular basis). Here she is wearing purple snow boots(it was in the 80 degree range), a summer dress, several kukui nut leis, a cheap bead necklace, and a light jacket. To make it more interesting the boots are about 5 sizes too big, but she wore them all day long.

And finally here is Brock in his life jacket. He hates it and cries most of them time when it is on, but hopefully he will learn to adjust. I also think it wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have to lay him down in the bottom of the canoe and allowed him to look about.

When we were looking around for somewhere to move into for the summer we commented on the amount of open space around the apartment and mentioned that it would be good for Ady to have somewhere to run around. The landlord was right there and he quickly told us that she shouldn't be allowed to run around unsupervised. His tone wasn't suggesting that we wouldn't watch her, or that she would cause problems so I looked at him somewhat curiously. He then went on to inform us that wolves and bears in the area make it unsafe for children to just play outside unsupervised. We left the appointment and were discussing how odd a comment that was, and were sure that we'd never heard that line before when looking at an apartment. Kasey of course was worrying and asking me how many bears are in the area, do we need to worry much, do you think we'll ever see one, how many people get attacked each year... I immediately began to inform her that bear sightings are rare, and we'll probably never see a bear or wolf, and the guy was a little off his rocker. Just as I got done saying this I had to slam on my brakes as a bear came out of the woods in front of us and crossed the highway. Two days later I had to slow down for a wolf. I guess in Northern Minnesota you keep an eye on your kids when they are outdoors, and one eye on the woods.