It's Official!!

First off, no, I am not pregnant. Our house is officially on the market! Finally!! Poor Reid had to take 3 and a half days off of work last week and work all day long to get our house to where it needed to be for showing. On Friday our realtor came over and helped us add a few finishing touches, take some pictures, and give last minute hints. And then Friday afternoon she had the house listed and brochures printed up. Now we could just use someone to actually come take a look at all of the work we have done.

With the house done, we are now ready to head to Colorado Springs to find ourselves a new house. We leave first thing tomorrow morning and plan to spend Thursday, Friday, and Saturday looking at as many houses as we can. Kai and I will fly back on Sunday, leaving Reid to begin his first day of work on Monday. Wow! I can't believe how quickly that time has passed and that today is Reid's last day in Manassas. I think I am more sad than he is about it.

As for Kai, he's handled things quite well under the circumstances. All of the activity has disrupted his schedule at times, but he seems to have come through no worse for the wear. He's been a bit grumpy this week, but at least he has started putting himself to sleep a bit more consistently. I have to admit that I am very nervous about tomorrow's trip and figuring out hotel accommodations. The hotel is going to provide a playpen for him to sleep in and I only hope that it's somewhat comfortable for him. If he only gets up three times a night, I'd say he's doing good. (Here at home he still gets up twice a night, something the doctor wants to correct by starting him on solid foods. We've chosen to wait until we get back from the trip to start that.) Also, being out house hunting all day long I hope doesn't completely mess up naps and everything. Hopefully the car rides will lull him into some sort of brief nap as often as possible throughout the day.

For those who would like to see some really recent pictures of Kai, you can check out http://picasaweb.google.com/reidjones. There is a web album of pictures and another of videos. He's starting to figure out how to sit up on his own and he's laughing a lot these days. It's so cute. His laugh is very close to his cry and sometimes you can't even tell the difference--our little sweetie!!

There are two other super important Kai moments to note. First, on Friday he finally rolled from his back to his tummy by himself. He's been very close to this for quite some time, but his head has been a bit too heavy for him. Now he loves it. Even being close to this has helped a great deal with his sleeping, because he actually likes sleeping on his side. Now he can roll onto his side and fall asleep and he loves it! The other thing to mention is that twice last week Kai took a two hour nap!! He's managing to do this by rolling to his side when he stirs in the middle of his nap and also by putting his binky back in by himself. This is super exciting for me!! While he still hasn't figured out how to make every nap a long nap, or how to do it every day, the fact that it's happening slowly but surely is very reassuring.

Well, there's a lot to do today to get ready for our trip. I hope all is well and I'll post about our trip as soon as I can when we get back!!