The Truck Arrives!!

We were so excited to finally see the truck arrive with all of our stuff.  Wade meet the truck and driver at customs to complete some paperwork first thing in the morning.  Once customs cleared our things, the truck driver went and picked up help at their warehouse and then finally arrived at our house.

Of course it snowed the entire time they were unloading the truck but the temps were at least decent and right around freezing all day.  A little over 3 hours later, the house was full of boxes and the truck was gone.  We started unpacking in Ethan's room, and setup his "big boy bed".  He insisted on putting all of his stuffed animals on the bed with him.  He has been doing great sleeping in the bed.

 The first thing Ethan said the next morning was "Open Boxes".  He remembered a couple of the boxes that we told him were labeled "toys" the day before and of course wanted to start with those.  I meant to take a few photos of all the boxes but forgot so I'll try to remember on the next move.  It's been a busy week of unpacking boxes and everything seems to be fitting into the new house well. It's funny how sometimes the little things can be so exciting, like cooking a meal and eating it at the table, sitting on the couch, or having a closet full of clothes to pick from. 

The weather was really nice all week with temps even up to 40F one day so Ethan and I did take a little break from unpacking to go and play in the backyard.  As expected, he wasn't to adventurous but he did have fun.  We painted the snow a little bit but his favorite part was having me make snowballs so he could throw them into my footprints or as he would say "throw balls in holes".

Saturday night was the annual Engineered Air banquet here in Edmonton.  Wade's boss volunteered his teenage daughter to babysit for us.  She had no babysitting experience but did okay until bedtime.  Ethan got a little scared and then refused to go to sleep so we had to call it an early night about 9:30.

We also made a trip to IKEA this weekend to pick up a desk since we left Wade's large antique desk back in Kansas.  Wade swore he would never set foot into an IKEA again after our trip last year in Denver (it was very busy and past Ethan's nap time so it was a disaster).  He even suggested IKEA since he knew it would probably be the best place to find a desk for the next 3 years.  I'm looking forward to going back again on my own to look at some of the smaller things.