Finally at "home"!

On March 4 the big moving truck came, loaded all our junk, and off we went to Seattle. We thought it would be fun to spend the night in our new, and very empty, apartment. The kids did great. Calvin was a little unsure about all the open space ... and wanted to sleep with Henry in the kennel. We talked him into sleeping in his crib instead ;). 

A few days after arriving, we woke up to snow ... what?! In March?! In SEATTLE?! Totally weird. So Calvin wanted to go play in the yard and load the snow into his dump truck. Note the beautiful blooming spring tree in the background. So bizarre.  

My sweet boys

One of the awesome things about our new pad in Lynnwood is that we are a mere three miles from one of my dear friends from college, Hayley. She has a little boy about 8 months younger than Calvin and they have been enjoying playing together. As a fun outing one day we made an Ikea run ... which is where we got this awesome new easel for Calvin! He's become quite the little artist lately. He loves painting and drawing. This was the smile I got when I interrupted him for a picture. He was a little irritated. 

Sweet Kees - just turned five months old and is doing great. He's eaten some solids but seems to prefer rice cereal at present. He's doing great with his sleeping and we're working on cutting out all his night time feeds so that mom can enjoy some interrupted sleep ... it's a work in progress, but we're getting there! He remains a happy, easy-going little guy. His favorite thing at present is to be naked. 

Love this funny little smile! 

Jeffrey the giraffe lulled him straight to sleep. 

Easter weekend we enjoyed some absolutely gorgeous weather. You must soak this up when it comes, so we spent a good part of the weekend outside. Here are all the handsome Kaemingk boys! 

Loving these beautiful cherry blossom trees! 

Easter family picture! It took a good deal of bribing to get Calvin to cooperate ... 

And Calvin's first Easter egg hunt, courtesy of Grandma and Grandpa. He LOVED it! 

Here's my Easter basket mom! 

 We are doing well here. It's been a crazy month of getting settled in. Moving with little kids is a lot of work! Thanks to a great deal of help from friends and both sets of parents, we are finally all unpacked. Matthew is working quite a lot of hours and having lots of meetings as he attempts to learn about the new job and get the Institute up and running. I am loving being in Seattle - there is so much to do here! After the quietness of Chelan, it's so great to have so much to explore, friends to play with, and endless things to do. It's been good fun so far. Our priorities right now are finding a church we feel really good about, seeing if said church needs some musical help from me, and starting to get plugged in. We are definitely longing for that community. But so far things are going well! There is a great beauty to having a quiet, uneventful life for a little while ;).