Summer time hiatus

Only a couple more weeks until we move into our new place (in case it’s unclear, we’re not buying a house, just renting). We’re all very excited about it, including Jude. We’ve been packing and showing the apartment to potential renters. I’m not sure this place has ever looked so sparkly and clean.

The current plan is that we’ll be getting the keys a week before September 1st so we can start moving some of our boxes into the garage. Then on the 31st of August we’ll officially move in. Honestly it feels like forever away, but I know that really it’ll be here very soon.

In the time between now and moving in, we have a few other important events to occur. This upcoming Monday, Carys will be starting at the same Garderie that Jude was going to. I think that she’ll really enjoy it there. At least I hope so. She seems much more independent and I’m doubting that she’ll have much, if any, separation anxiety. I just hope that they’re ready for a fully fledged member of the Thoiry climbing club.

In the last couple of days, she’s discovered how upwardly mobile she really is. It’s really amazing watching her as she climbs over new things because her eyes tell the world exactly what she’s thinking, and the pride she shows is unmistakable when she accomplishes her feat.

Another major milestone is Jude starting at the école maternelle (nursery school) on August 31. Jude has been looking forward to this for a few months now, and has been a major motivator for potty training (which I’m proud to say, he’s on his 5th week pull-up free! YAY). The school is on campus at CERN and so Dan will be taking him in the morning and picking him up for lunch every day (or so is the plan).

WOW, taking three weeks off from writing on the blog has made my mind go all dust

This week we went to the reptile zoo in Meyrin. It was pretty awesome, but not easy to take pictures in. There is one shot of Jude watching a snake move around. The other shots are from around the house, and washing the car.