I know I haven't been quite up to date on here. So I thought it would be nice to come give an update. As you may already know, we bought a house over the summer. This is our first house as a family that we actually own. We have been adjusting to the new location, new neighbors, and all the new responsibilities. It has been great. Six months has passed and everyone is still happy. Including the cats.
We all have plenty of space. We can get away from each other easily by going into a different room. It's easy to get around our house and the space is plentiful. We are really happy to have found a house with decently sized rooms. Our yard is large; the cats have enjoyed roaming around and hiding with the rabbits under our shed. The kids enjoy running around out back with the neighborhood kids. We can easily walk down to the neighborhood playground and soccer field. The location of our house has been wonderful as well. It's an easy commute for all of us. Not too far from Lucian's school and my work. An easy hop onto the highway for Joseph to get downtown. We can easily get to all the places we love to shop plus the highway to go anywhere else. Needless to say, we have been loving it.
With the weather being so cold and windy lately, we haven't been able to spend much time outside. Yesterday was oddly nice out, so we took advantage of the wind. We pulled out the kites and walked down to the soccer field with the boys. Lucian flew a kite all by himself. It took a moment to get the idea of string tension, but once he got the general idea he was off. He even tried to do tricks with his kite, making it zoom back and forth. I thought he did pretty awesome. He had the slightly more difficult kite ( a beautiful orange angelfish). Apollo was originally flying the rainbow kite. He was doing pretty good, but he decided to pass it to me so he could chase the kites' shadows around. He's so goofy sometimes. He also helped me restart my kite when it would come crashing point first to the ground. It was a pretty good day for kites. Warmer than usual with bursts of wind.
It was also a little muddy out from leftover rain. Apollo was intrigued by the footprints that were visible in the mud. Joseph explained footprints and tracks to him. He decided to figure out which shoe left the footprint. So he ran to each of us and asked to see the bottoms of our feet. He even found his own footprint!
After our visit to the soccer field, we walked over to the playground. The boys played around for a bit until it became dark. Some of the other neighborhood families were out as well. Once the sun went down, it started to cool quickly. We decided to head home and have some dinner. We were really thankful to find a place where we can walk to a park and a field. It was a lovely day.
