First Week = Success

We have survived our first week at our new house.  Ryan was touch and go for awhile.  He kept saying he wanted to go "bye bye" whenever we were at the house.  He is now doing much better and enjoys running around the basement playing baseball.  Unfortunately, we have not taken many pictures the last few weeks due to packing, unpacking, etc.  Here are a few pictures from April including Ryan's last week at Kids' Work.

Children's museum in Naperville

 Loving the slide

 Future Picasso

4055 N. Wolcott, Adieu

After around 8 years in the Lakeview/North Center neighborhood, the time has come to say goodbye to Chicago.  On April 20^th, we will trade in our city dwellings and officially become La Grange, IL residents.  

As excited as we are for a little extra breathing room, the last few weeks have been filled with mixed emotions as we’ve packed up the condo.  We’ve definitely had our fair share of gripes about Chicago (traffic, parking, etc.), but I suppose that’s to be expected in the third most populous metropolitan area in the United States...

But we’ve also experienced some of our biggest/special moments as a family at 4055 N. Wolcott…a marriage, our first home purchase, and the place Ryan has called home for nearly two years and where he experienced many of his “firsts”…smiling, crawling/walking, saying “mom and dad”, and more bumps and bruises than we can count.  Although far from a sprawling estate, Ryan has always been happiest here at home.

While we can’t wait to move into the new house, we’ll always have a very special place in our hearts for the little condo where it all started.

And the good news, the new house is only about 20 miles from Chicago, so we’ll still be able to hit all of our favorite haunts…and speaking of favorite haunts, here’s a list of establishments that have made our lives special over the last 8 years (most of which also stretched our waistlines a bit - Becki told me to speak for myself):

·           Scooter’s Frozen Custard

·           Lincoln Park Zoo

·           The Local Option

·           The Art of Pizza

·           Sola

·           Coonley Elementary School Park

·           Our local CVS and Jewel

·           Half Acre Brewery

·           Stauber’s Hardware

·           Rockwell’s

·           Lakeview YMCA

·           KidsWork (Ryan’s daycare that took GREAT care of him for a year and a half

A    Although we won’t be in the neighborhood, we have a feeling we’ll be seeing most of them soon…

    

       So as we trade in our CTA cards for Metra cards, and our condo for our first house, we’d just like to say, “Thanks, Chicago.”

 Stay tuned for our new adventures as suburbanites……..

Crazy Month

March was a crazy month...work, family time, illnesses.  April is shaping up to be just as crazy.  In the meantime, here's what Ryan has been up to...

rock, rock, rock

 hugging friends at school

Go Hawks!!